In the 4th round, the American won in three sets Daria Kasatkinawho performs in a “neutral” status and ranks 10th in the WTA ranking. The meeting ended in 2 hours and 43 minutes.
Australian Open 2025. 1/8 finals
Emma Navarro (USA) [8] – Daria Kasatkina [9] – 6:4, 4:6, 7:5
This was the first face-to-face confrontation between the rivals.
In the third game, Navarro won one break, as well as two hidden match points in the 11th game. Emma could have ended the match earlier if she had managed to realize one of the four match points in the 10th game in the second set.
Navarro will play in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open for the first time. For a place in the semi-finals on the Melbourne courts, she will compete against the world’s second-ranked Iga Sveontek, who previously defeated Eva Lys.
On January 20, Russian Veronika Kudermetova also left the major, who was knocked out by Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. In the lower part of the grid, there are no representatives of the bogs left, but in the upper part – Sobolenko and Pavlyuchenkova.
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Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Emma Navarro and Daria Kasatkina 
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Daria Kasatkina 
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Emma Navarro 
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Daria Kasatkina 
Getty Images/Global Images Ukraine. Emma Navarro
Source: sport.ua