{"id":17248,"date":"2022-01-23T10:42:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T05:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=184552"},"modified":"2022-01-23T10:47:34","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T05:17:34","slug":"australian-open-barbora-krejcikova-stamps-her-place-in-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open-barbora-krejcikova-stamps-her-place-in-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open: Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 stamps her place in the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Czech Tennis player, Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 emerges victorious against injured Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round of the Australian Open on Sunday. Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 is now all set to clash against America\u2019s Madison Keys in the quarterfinals on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the final 8 \ud83d\udc4b<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BKrejcikova?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BKrejcikova<\/a> cruises into the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> quarterfinals for the first time, dominating Victoria Azarenka 6-2 6-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a><br \/>\ud83c\udfa5: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wwos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wwos<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@espn<\/a> \u00b7 @Eurosport \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wowowtennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wowowtennis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cpohNhqrfg\">pic.twitter.com\/cpohNhqrfg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1485089361838456834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Madison keys won her fourth round against Spain\u2019s Paula Badosa by 6-3, 6-1 on Sunday at the Rod Laver Arena. Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 has beaten two times Australian Open Champion, Victoria Azarenka by 6-2, 6-2 at Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The French Open Champion, Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 said that it was amazing today because Azarenka is the champion here. She likes the court and is very experienced on this court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI admire her because she\u2019s such a good player and I m extremely happy that I won today. It was a dream to play in a court like this\u201d, Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 said to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Barbora has braced herself in 2021 when she won her first grand slam title at Roland Garros, increasing her rankings. But she could never make it past the second round in her prior two attempts in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Veteran Victoria Azarenka was struggling with her neck issue and called for a medical timeout while a break and 0-1 down in the second set. She said \u201cit feels right\u201d but kept on going only to call a physio again at 1-2.<\/p>\n<p>Her injury was clearly affecting her serving and she double-faulted to hand Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 another break and then it was inescapable.<\/p>\n<p>Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1\u2019s win has increased her chances of becoming the world\u2019s no.1 towards the end of the tournament but is yet to earn the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 beats injured Victoria Azarenka in the fourth round of the Australian Open and goes to the quarterfinals clashing with Madison Keys. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":37994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2187],"class_list":["post-17248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open-2022"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}