Astra Sharma and Olivia Gadecki are the final Australians standing within the Roland Garros 2024 qualifying occasion.
Paris, France, 23 Could 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Astra Sharma and Olivia Gadecki have moved one step nearer to incomes a coveted main-draw spot at Roland Garros 2024.
The 28-year-old Sharma progressed to the ultimate spherical within the girls’s qualifying singles competitors with a powerful 6-3 6-4 win at this time towards Hungarian Timea Babos in Paris.
World No.130 Sharma struck 21 winners, together with seven aces, and transformed all three break factors she earned towards the previous world No.25 and two-time Roland Garros doubles champion.
This units up a final-round showdown with Serbian Olga Danilovic, who defeated Australian contender Kimberly Birrell 6-3 6-3 within the second spherical.
The 22-year-old Gadecki produced an equally dominant show to dismiss Argentina’s Solana Sierra, a ladies’ singles finalist at Roland Garros in 2022.
World No.165 Gadecki fired 16 winners, doubling her 19-year-old’s opponents tally throughout their 81-minute encounter, to triumph 6-2 6-4.
This sees Gadecki attain the ultimate qualifying spherical in Paris for the primary time, the place she’ll face Grand Slam debutante Julia Avdeeva.
Sharma and Gadecki now have the prospect to affix unique firm, with solely 5 Australian girls finishing profitable qualifying campaigns at Roland Garros up to now 30 years.
| Roland Garros girls’s singles Australian qualifiers up to now 30 years |
| Michelle Jaggard-Lai (1994) |
| Rachel McQuillan (1996) |
| Sophie Ferguson (2010) |
| Olivia Rogowska (2015) |
| Storm Hunter (2021, 2023) |
Sharma is aiming to qualify at a serious match for the fourth time and full her Grand Slam qualifying set. The Perth athlete has beforehand certified at Australian Open 2019, US Open 2021 and Wimbledon 2022.
The Gold Coast-based Gadecki has certified at a Grand Slam match as soon as earlier than, finally yr’s US Open.
Sadly Taylah Preston was unable to capitalise on a promising begin towards a fellow 18-year-old, Alexandra Eala from the Philippines, of their second-round assembly. The Perth athlete led 6-4 4-2, earlier than bowing out in three units.
Eala, who gained the Roland Garros ladies’ doubles title three years in the past and trains on the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain, additionally recovered from a 2-4 deficit within the deciding set earlier than closing out a hard-fought 4-6 6-4 7-5 victory.
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Hungarian Panna Udvardy ended the successful run of Priscilla Hon, edging out a 6-4 6-4 victory.
In the meantime, Li Tu, Australia’s final hope within the males’s qualifying competitors, misplaced to Kazakhstan veteran Mikhail Kukushkin in straight units.
Last qualifying spherical matches might be break up throughout two days in Paris, with solely Sharma scheduled to compete on day 4.
> VIEW: Roland Garros 2024 qualifying day 4 schedule
Aussies in motion – Roland Garros
RESULTS
Ladies’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[22] Astra Sharma (AUS) d Timea Babos (HUN) 6-3 6-4
Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d Solana Sierra (ARG) 6-2 6-4
Alexandra Eala (PHL) d [30] Taylah Preston (AUS) 4-6 6-4 7-5
[11] Olga Danilovic (SRB) d Kimberly Birrell (AUS) 6-3 6-3
[27] Panna Udvardy (HUN) d Priscilla Hon (AUS) 6-4 6-4
Males’s qualifying singles, second spherical
[25] Mikhail Kukushkin (KAZ) d Li Tu (AUS) 6-4 6-2
COMING UP
Ladies’s qualifying singles, closing spherical
[22] Astra Sharma (AUS) v [11] Olga Danilovic (SRB)
Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v Julia Avdeeva
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