Watch Aus Open Highlights: Wimbledon winner Rybakina defeats 2-time Champion Azarenka to reach final

Updated : Jan 28, 2023 17:03
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Wimbledon Champion Elena Rybakina reached the final of the Australian Open with a 7-6 6-3 victory against 2-time Champion Victoria Azarenka.

The first set was a neck-to-neck battle but 22nd seed Rybakina saved her best for the tiebreak, winning it 7-4.

In the second set, the 23-year-old from Kazakhstan was simply unstoppable, She dashed Azarenka's hopes of winning a 3rd Australian Open crown, 10 years after her first triumph, by winning the set 6-3.

Also read: Important to take women's sport forward in our part of the world: Sania Mirza

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