Australian Open Tennis: Badosa dispatches Gauff to make maiden Grand Slam semifinal

By  News On Air   Jan 21, 2025

In Australian Open Tennis, eleventh seed Paula Badosa entered her maiden Grand Slam semifinal after upsetting World No. 3 Coco Gauff 7-5, 6-4 in the Women’s Singles quarterfinal today.

Badosa handed Gauff her first loss of 2025 in a 1-hour and 43-minute match inside Rod Laver Arena. The win also gave Badosa her first-ever Top 10 victory at a Grand Slam tournament.

The Spaniard now awaits the winner of the quarterfinal match between World No. 1 and two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka and No. 21 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

In Men’s Singles, World No. 2 Alexander Zverev of Germany beat America’s Tommy Paul in a four-set quarterfinal match 7-6, 7-6, 2-6, 6-1.

In another quarterfinal set for later today, reigning Olympic champion Novak Djokovic of Serbia is set to take on four-time Grand Slam winner Carlos Alcaraz of Spain at Rod Laver Arena today.

In a setback to India, the Indo-China duo of Rohan Bopanna and Zhang Shuai lost the mixed doubles quarterfinal match 6-2, 4-6, 9-11 to the local pair of John Peers and Olivia Gadecki in Melbourne.