Australian Open 2024: Finalist Diana Yastremska qualifies for the semi-finals after defeating Linda Noskova (6-3, 6-4)

She is still on cloud nine. Ukrainian Diana Yastremska, the No. 93 player in the world and after qualifying, qualified for her first major semi-final in the Australian Open, by defeating Czech Linda Noskova (50) in two sets (6-3, 6-4) and an hour and 19 minutes. Play on Wednesday. At the age of 23, Yastremska became only the second qualifier to reach the final round of an Australian Open in the Open Era (since 1968), after Christine Dore in 1978.

“It's nice to write the story, because I wasn't even born at that time“, a native of Odessa. For a final place, before the Chinoise Qinwen Zheng, November 15, or the Russian Anna Kalinskaya (75th century), opened in the village. The old house -finale est connue depuis la veille: il s'agira d'un remake de la finale de l'US Open 2023, entre Aryna Sabalenka, No. 2 mondiale et tenante du trophée, et Coco Gauff, No. 4 mondiale et victorieuse à New York.

After qualifying, Yastremska has already played and won eight matches at Melbourne Park. In particular, she toppled Czech Marketa Vondrousova, ranked seventh in the world and the surprise winner of the Wimbledon Championship in 2023, in the first round, and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka, formerly ranked first in the world and currently ranked 22nd, in the round of 16. Two weeks ago in Australia, Yastremska had never been past the round of 16 at a Grand Slam (at Wimbledon in 2019).

It was Noskova, ranked in the top 50 at 19, who knocked out world number one Iga Swiatek in the third round. Yastremska, who climbed into the top 20 in 2019 and 2020, before falling outside the top 100, was acquitted in June 2021 on appeal after a positive doping test for which she was initially punished with a ban.