Jessica Pegula – Yelena Rybakina. Forecast and announcement for the semi-finals of the Aus Open

On January 29, Jessica Pegula (WTA 6) and Yelena Rybakina (WTA 5) will meet in the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

The match is scheduled to start at 12:00 Kyiv time.

Sport.ua together with a betting partner betting announces the upcoming match!

Jessica Pegula

The American tennis player started this season with a tournament in Brisbane. There she reached the semifinals, where she lost in two sets to the Ukrainian Marty Kostyuk. At the Australian Open, Pegula looks very confident, she just blows opponents out of her way.

In the first round, the athlete did not notice the “neutral” Zakharova – 6:2, 6:1, and did not resist her compatriot Kessler – 6:0, 6:2. The tennis player won the match of the third round against another “neutral” Selehmetyova – 6:3, 6:2, then the strong and experienced Madison Keys succeeded – 6:3, 6:4. In the last match, Pegula defeated Amanda Anisimov in the American derby – 6:2, 7:6. The tennis player has yet to win a major, and this semi-final is her best performance at the Australian Slam so far.

Yelena Rybakina

This season, the tennis player from Kazakhstan also started with the tournament in Brisbane, where she stopped at the quarter-final stage, losing in three sets to Karolina Mukhova from the Czech Republic.

At the current Australian Open, the grid was not the most difficult. They managed to beat such rivals as: Slovenian Yuvan – 6:4, 6:3, French Grachova – 7:5, 6:2, Czech Valentova – 6:2, 6:3, experienced Belgian Mertens – 6:1, 6:3. In the quarter-finals, she had to fight against the powerful Pole Iga Sventek, but the fight was only in the first game. In the end – 7:5, 6:1 in favor of Rybakina. The athlete in Australia reached the final once in 2023. If you take Grand Slam tournaments as a whole, then she has the 2022 Wimbledon trophy.

Personal meetings

In face-to-face confrontations, Rybakina leads 3:2, the athlete from Kazakhstan won one match at the Billie Jean Keane Cup. The tennis players last met in November of last year, in the semi-finals of the Final Tournament. Then Pegula lost in three sets – 6:4, 4:6, 6:3.

Forecast

Tennis players from the top ten of the top level meet, a ticket to the finals is at stake, additional motivation is definitely not needed. Rybakina is considered a slight favorite of that pair, but everything will depend on the mood and readiness on the day of the game.

The best in this pair will play against the winner of the semi-final Svitolina – Sobolenko. I’ll bet here on a total of over 21.5 games at 1.8.