{"id":17258,"date":"2022-01-25T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=185581"},"modified":"2022-01-25T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T11:45:10","slug":"australian-open-2022-ash-barty-wins-to-set-a-clash-with-madison-keys-in-the-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/australian-open-2022-ash-barty-wins-to-set-a-clash-with-madison-keys-in-the-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2022: Ash Barty wins to set a clash with Madison Keys in the semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top Ranked Ash Barty has made her way to the semis after beating America\u2019s Jessica Pegula at the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on Tuesday. The Australian beats Jessica by 6-2,6-0 at the Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The not so secret to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ashbarty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ashbarty<\/a>'s success \ud83e\udd29<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AusOpen?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AusOpen<\/a> \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kT1zMtd1sO\">pic.twitter.com\/kT1zMtd1sO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #AusOpen (@AustralianOpen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianOpen\/status\/1485910267615715331?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is all set to clash against the 2017 US Open runner-up, Madison Keys in the semifinals on January 27. This is Barty\u2019s second-time entry to the semi-finals at Melbourne Park when she lost to Sofia Kenin who ended up winning the tournament in 2020. World No. One player said that she as a person and player has grown and feels like a more complete player.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian professional saved the only breakpoint that she faced against Pegula and turned five of the nine chances she had to break serve. The Wimbledon champion of last year is now aiming to achieve the first Australian woman to win the Australian Open since 1978.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Today, Madison Keys had beaten Czechia\u2019s Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 at the quarterfinals by 6-3, 6-2 at the Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No looking back \ud83d\ude45\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Madison_Keys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Madison_Keys<\/a> and her team have their eyes set on 2022!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AO2022<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2KHGdbsV8\">pic.twitter.com\/g2KHGdbsV8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 wta (@WTA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WTA\/status\/1485817629839400960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With this victory, The 26-year-old has entered her second semi-finals of the Australian Open, seven years after making the last four at Melbourne Park when she was 19 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Two more fixtures are scheduled to be played tomorrow for the quarterfinals to decide another semifinalist between Danielle Collins and Alize Cornet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier Today, Madison Keys had beaten Czechia\u2019s Barbora Krej\u010d\u00edkov\u00e1 at the quarterfinals by 6-3, 6-2 at the Rod Laver Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":38004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2980,1448,2187,2382,250],"class_list":["post-17258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-alize-cornet","tag-ash-barty","tag-australian-open-2022","tag-barbora-krejcikova","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258","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=17258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}