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Saturday, Jun 21, 2025
A video circulating on Twitter on Saturday showed the Swiss double defending champion stalled at the entrance for lacking his tournament accreditation.
The 37-year-old Serena, chasing a record-extending eighth Melbourne title in the professional era, demolished Ukrainian teenager Dayana Yastremska 6-2, 6-1.
Top seed Halep had the odds stacked against her ahead of the Australian Open, but the Romanian proved her title credentials with a breezy 6-2, 6-3 third-round win over multiple Grand Slam winner Venus.
The six-time champion wrapped up the match 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 to advance to the last 16.
Angad Prathap, an 11-year-old whose family hails from Kannur is returning to Melbourne.
The six-time champion was at his devastating best in the one hour and 23 minute procession as he gave the hapless Pouille a brutal lesson in Grand Slam tennis and extended his perfect semifinals record to 7-0 at Melbourne Park.
The three-time Grand Slam champion wept at a media conference as he revealed that he had initially planned to quit after playing this year's Wimbledon tournament.
The Argentine continues to recover from a kneecap fracture he suffered during a fall at the Shanghai Masters in October.
The match at Rod Laver Arena was riven with tension, with a delay to close the roof during the first set due to the stifling conditions.
Osaka will meet Petra Kvitova, who will compete in her first Grand Slam final in five years after defeating unseeded American Danielle Collins.
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