The US Open 2024 will see a re-match of the Australian Open (AO) males’s and ladies’s singles finalists clashing in opposition to one another within the quarter-finals of the event, a primary such incidence within the Open period. Notably, Aryna Sabalenka can be up in opposition to her Australian Open finalist Qinwen Zheng within the ladies’s singles quarter-finals.
Alternatively, Jannik Sinner can even be having a rematch along with his finalist from Melbourne, Daniil Medvedev within the quarter finals of the boys’s singles occasion. It will likely be the primary time within the open period, that such an incident can be witnessed with each AO singles finalists assembly once more in the identical season.
Sinner had overwhelmed Medvedev in an epic five-setter battle within the last on the Australian Open after being two units down. The Italian made a sensational comeback from 3-6, 3-6 to win the following three units by 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 to clinch his first Grand Slam title. Therefore, Medvedev who’s hardly been examined within the US Open thus far must battle his method via to the semi finals because the 2021 Champion eyes his second title at Flushing Meadows.
Olympic gold medallist Qinwen Zheng eyeing revenge in opposition to Sabalenka
Sinner was examined in his pre-quarter-finals recreation in opposition to the America’s Tommy Paul as he was made to work laborious to seal the primary two units and gained it through tie-breakers earlier than ultimately successful by 6-1 within the last set.
Alternatively, Aryna Sabalenka had overwhelmed Qinwen Zheng in straight units by 6-3, 6-2 to efficiently defend her title at Australian Open earlier this 12 months. Therefore, Zheng, who’s driving excessive after a gold medal win on the Paris Olympics can be eyeing revenge in opposition to the Belarusian participant within the upcoming conflict.
Nevertheless, she gained’t be having a cakewalk over the second seed who’s eyeing for her first singles title on the Flushing Meadows after coming agonizingly shut within the earlier version and shedding within the last.