Hunter and Siniakova battle their method into Australian Open 2024 semifinals | 24 January, 2024 | All Information | Information and Options | Information and Occasions

Storm Hunter and Czech associate Katerina Siniakova have staged a steely comeback to maintain their Australian Open goals alive.

The third seeds regarded in hassle after they fell behind 1-4 within the deciding set of their quarterfinal showdown with Czech Barbora Krejcikova and German Laura Siegemund.

Nevertheless, they managed to reel off 5 consecutive video games to triumph 4-6 7-5 6-4 at Margaret Court docket Area this afternoon.

“Once we have been down a break within the third we simply thought ‘let’s maintain going, maintain going’,” Hunter mentioned.

“And we someway received the win, which is wonderful.

“That was a really, very robust match. Credit score to Barbora and Laura, they performed rather well. We actually needed to dig deep, belief one another and combat actually arduous.”

This propels 29-year-old Hunter into her first girls’s doubles semifinal on the Australian Open.

The world No.1 joins unique firm as solely the eighth Australian to succeed in an Australian Open girls’s doubles semifinal in Melbourne Park’s 36-year historical past.

Hunter and Siniakova will face world No.2 Elise Mertens, Hunter’s former associate, and world No.6 Hsieh Su-wei within the semifinals.

“(We’re) so comfortable we get to play one other match, we didn’t wish to go residence but,” Hunter mentioned.

In addition to competing for a spot within the Australian Open last, Hunter must defeat Mertens to carry onto her world No.1 rating.

In combined doubles motion, the profitable run of two Aussie wildcard pairs got here to an finish within the semifinals.

Olivia Gadecki and Marc Polmans bowed out towards American Desirae Krawczyk and Brit Neal Skupski, whereas Jaimee Fourlis and Andrew Harris misplaced to Chinese language Taipei’s Hsieh Su-wei and Poland’s Jan Zielinski.