On January 24, Beijing time, the last quarterfinals of the Australian Open women's singles was played between No. 2 seed Sabalenka and Estonian veteran Canepi. In the first set, Sabalenka won 7-5. In the second set, Canepi equalized 6-2. In the decider, Sabalenka snatched ten defeats. The Australian Open crazy big cold was born, another champion Sabalenka was out, and the big score was 1-2 by the 37-year-old veteran Canepi!
In the first set, Sabalenka relied on a key break at the end of the set to take a 7-5 lead in the set, leading Canepi 1-0.
However, it is worth noting that Sabalenka issued 4 double errors in the first set, 3 of which came from the 5-5 service set, although she won the first set, but this situation also shows that Sabalenka's serve performance today is not stable, which also laid the foundation for her subsequent two consecutive sets of reversal.
In the second set, the world's No. 2 Sabalenka was repeatedly broken by his opponents, and the set was routed 2-6, and Canepi easily tied the score.
In the decider, Kanepi took the lead in breaking, and Sabalenka completed a very life-saving return in the eighth set, which can be said to be a desperate situation! However, in the ninth inning, Sabalenka, who had just saved his life, lost his serve again! In the tenth set, it was another super god game, in Kanepi's serve to win the game, Sabalenka frantically saved 4 match points to complete the miracle break, the second time in this game!
After the game scored 6-6, the decisive set to grab ten battles came! Sabalenka fell behind 2-5 and fell into a desperate situation, but Sabalenka scored 4 consecutive points, 6-5 overtook Canepi, the god script came again, Sabalenka suddenly lost power, Canepi won the match point 9-7, 10-7, Canepi finally completed the cash on his 5th match point of the game, Sabalenka lost 10-10 in the decider.
Looking back at the whole game, a variety of super god scripts were staged, Sabalenka was in a desperate situation three times before and after, a total of 4 match points were frantically saved, but still broke out of the big cold, first won a set, lost two sets in a row, the big score was reversed 1-2, the veteran Canepi experienced a 2 hours and 19 minutes of bitter battle with the world's 2nd Sabaronka, and reached the women's singles quarterfinals.
This year's Australian Open has played until now, Sabalenka has become the biggest seed out of the singles field, I have to say that Sabalenka's exit has also exploded one of the biggest cold spots so far in this Australian Open, you know, the opponent Canepi was born in 1985, has been 37 years old! On this level, Canepi is admirable!
With Sabalenka's upset stop at the round of 16, the quarterfinals of this year's Australian Open women's singles were born:
Top half, Barty vs Pegura, Karegitkova vs Keys
Lower half, Collins vs. Cornett, Swataker vs. Kanepi