Rybakina survives injury scare to reach Australian Open last 16
Elena Rybakina beat Dayana Yastremska 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday and will face the winner of the match between Madison Keys and Danielle Collins next
Julien Nouet / Tennis Majors
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 6 seed, advanced to the last 16 of the Australian Open by winning against Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska, the No 32 seed, 6-3, 6-4 at Melbourne Park on Saturday.
Rybakina struggled with her back during the match but needed an hour, 24 minutes to down Yastremska. She hit 15 winners and converted three break points to complete the win.
“Honestly I didn’t know how it was going to go because it came out of a sudden,” Rybakina said after the win. “I didn’t expect it and of course it was not easy, I knew that it would be very difficult for me to stay long in the rallies, I was trying to play aggressive and sometimes risk a little bit more – really happy that it went my way in the end.”
Rybakina, ranked No 7, will face the winner of the match between No 19 seed Madison Keys and No 10 seed Danielle Collins next.
The Kazakh beat Australian wildcard Emerson Jones (6-1, 6-1) and American wildcard Iva Jovic (6-0, 6-3) earlier in the tournament.
In the previous rounds of the first Grand Slam tournament of the 2025 season, Yastremska, ranked No 33, won against Egyptian Mayar Sherif (6-1, 6-4) and Montenegrin Danka Kovinic (6-0, 6-1).
Melbourne (Grand Slam), other third-round results (Melbourne Park, hard, USD 60.627.573, most recent results first):
- Madison Keys vs. Danielle Collins
- Elina Svitolina vs. Jasmine Paolini
- Beatriz Haddad Maia vs. Veronika Kudermetova
- Daria Kasatkina (9) beat Yulia Putintseva (24): 7-5, 6-1
- Eva Lys (LL) beat Jaqueline Cristian: 4-6, 6-3, 6-3
- Iga Swiatek (2) beat Emma Raducanu: 6-1, 6-0
- Emma Navarro (8) beat Ons Jabeur: 6-4, 3-6, 6-4
- Olga Danilovic beat Jessica Pegula (7): 7-6 (3), 6-1
- Coco Gauff (3) beat Leylah Fernandez (30): 6-4, 6-2
- Belinda Bencic beat Naomi Osaka: 7-6 (3) ret.
- Mirra Andreeva (14) beat Magdalena Frech (23): 6-2, 1-6, 6-2
- Paula Badosa (11) beat Marta Kostyuk (17): 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
- Aryna Sabalenka (1) beat Clara Tauson: 7-6 (5), 6-4
- Donna Vekic (18) beat Diana Shnaider (12): 7-6 (4), 6-7 (3), 7-5
- Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (27) beat Laura Siegemund: 6-1, 6-2
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