Unseeded Pole Magda Linette has continued her dream run on the Australian Open, upsetting former world No.1 Karolina Pliskova to e-book a semi-final berth.
Linette, 30, made the essential break within the eleventh sport of the second set and held her nerve to serve out the match, profitable 6-3 7-5 in a single hour, 27 minutes.
In her earlier 29 grand slam appearances, Linette had by no means superior additional than the third spherical.
“It’s so emotional; I can’t really believe it,” she stated. “Dreams come true.
“We hold going although.
“I don’t want to get too excited because we’re still in the tournament but I’m super grateful and happy.”
The late-blooming Pole admitted she had grow to be a lot better at managing her feelings on the court docket.
“All through my life I’ve been taking mistakes and losses very personally, so I had to disconnect those two things,” she stated.
“It was really difficult, because I felt a lot of times that the misses, the mistakes, were defining me.
“My coaches and I did a very nice job, and I’m actually grateful to them, as a result of they actually put up with quite a lot of crap.”
All five of Linette’s scalps at Melbourne Park this year have been ranked inside the top 50 in the world.
The loss means Pliskova’s long wait for a maiden grand slam title continues.
The 30-year-old Czech has lost both of her major finals – at the 2016 US Open to Angelique Kerber and at Wimbledon two years ago to Ash Barty.
Linette will play both No.5 seed Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus or unseeded Croatian Donna Vekic within the semis.
