Olivia Gadecki stuns world No.11 Danielle Collins within the second spherical at a WTA 500 event in Mexico.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 12 September 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Olivia Gadecki is having fun with a breakout run at a WTA 500 event in Guadalajara, the place she has scored a string of spectacular upsets to advance to her first tour-level quarterfinal.
The 22-year-old from the Gold Coast defeated Hungarian Timea Babos, a former world No.25, and rising Australian Maya Joint, the world No.111, to qualify with out dropping a set.
Gadecki then continued her profitable run in the primary draw, beating former world No.3 Sloane Stephens within the opening spherical.
The world No.152’s rising confidence was on present right now in a second-round conflict with the event’s second seed, world No.11 Danielle Collins.
Gadecki dismissed the American in 84 minutes, powering to a 6-3 6-3 victory.
Using the wave 🌊
Olivia Gadecki is into her FIRST ever Hologic WTA quarterfinal!#GDLOpenAKRONxSantander pic.twitter.com/Z8ONVJ0Fta
— wta (@WTA) September 12, 2024
That is Gadecki’s second profession top-20 win and first since February 2021.
It additionally marks the primary time that the Gold Coast expertise has scored back-to-back top-100 wins in her profession.
“I’m actually happy with myself for giving myself the prospect to play one other match and play such superb gamers and actually check my skills,” an elated Gadecki stated in her on-match interview.
Along with her performances this week, Gadecki is projected to interrupt into the world’s high 120 and will nonetheless climb increased if her profitable run continues on the Mexican hard-court occasion.
Gadecki’s quarterfinal opponent will probably be determined later right now, as she awaits the winner of the second-round assembly between Mexican Renata Zarazua and Italian Martina Trevisan.
Aussies in motion – Guadalajara
RESULTS
Girls’s singles, second spherical
[Q] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) d [2] Danielle Collins (USA) 6-3 6-3
COMING UP
Girls’s singles, quarterfinals
[Q] Olivia Gadecki (AUS) v TBC
> VIEW: Guadalajara ladies’s singles draw
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