Aryna Sabalenka crashes out of French Open 2024 | Sports Buzz | DD India

all right from cricket let's move on to tennis French Open fourth seed Alexander zv kept his bid for an elusive first Grand Slam title Alive by reaching a fourth straight French Open semi-final the victory over 11 seed Australian Alex deino on Wednesday Zev will play seven seed Casper rud in the last four after holding Novak shoit withdrawal from the other quarterfinal with the knee injury deau gifted his opponent a break and a 4-2 lead with a double fault but battle tennis ly to recover it three games later only to surrender serve against again withv closing out the Victory and in women's single second s saal Lanka was sent crashing out of the French Open after a shocking quar final lost to Russian teenager Mira Andria on Wednesday having won her first in fact last two meetings with Andria comfortably belarian sabalenka wasted little time getting to work as the Australian Open Champion cranked up her big shots to go ahead 3-1 before her serve came undone in the opening set however sablan was hampered by illness throughout the contest as suddenly out of SAA Blanka called the trainer out and had medication for illness after the 17-year-old Andrea SED to a 53 lead and sensed a real opportunity to cause a massive upset on the biggest stage Italian surprise package Jasmin Pini stared off a fight back from fourth seat Elena rakina to seal a stunning 62 46 64 Victory on Wednesday an advance to the French Open sem finals for the first time the 12 seed Pini set up a last four Showdown with Russian 17-year-old Miranda playing in her first Grand Slam quarter final the 28-year old Pini got off to a confident start by winning the opening two games and forced her opponent to work hard to hold serve before breaking again on route to taking the first set all right let's go across to Paris now DD India Ross Cullen is joining us live Ross will talk about the semi-final first guys swante will take on Koko Goff in the semis who do you think has an upper hand Goff is 110 against swante and 04 on clay in head tohe head well you fil said that Coco GF is approved her mentality and she is now a much stronger player mentally and it's going to be a much tougher proposition for eish font to try to reach the French Open final and continue this quest to win three on the trots but Koko goof has now got that uh problem in terms has not got the problem in terms of Landing her first Grand Slam title she's already done that in the US Open so we know that she has what it takes to win a major uh but in terms of uh who's they're going to come up against it's going to be either Mir andreeva or Jasmine palini who are facing off in the other the semi-final Ross also I mean we need to talk about the women's singles quarterfinal game um 17-year-old mirria stunning second seat Sabal Lanka I mean she snapped 11 match winning run at the Grand Slams this year for saalan and she lost the first set and then won the last two I'm talking about Andrea what a game but yes I mean sabalenka wasn't feeling well she took medication also but absolutely a big win for Andrea sabinka managed to win the first set and looked as though she had some stomach issues in the second and the third some kind of problem she certainly wasn't at her best and she had admitted going into this tournament that she does know that although she has a strength Arena savena on hard courts when it comes to Clay courts such as here in Paris she knows that igos fantc is the dominant force on this surface but she was trying to get through and maybe break that duck and and try to win a French Open title for the first time Arena sabalenka after winning two Aussie open titles but she is now out really struggling against the 17-year-old Russian Amir andreeva now she becomes the youngest player to make the French Open semi finals since Martina Hingis in 1997 the Swiss great so some 27 years on we now have somebody else who is 17 years old in the women's semi-finals and she was m remember she was 16y old but Ross um I mean Alexander zv beating Alex Deo in men's singles zv looks in top form fourth consecutive French Open same final for him yeah he's hoping to win the French Open it's now been four consecutive years that Alexander zarev has at least made the semifinals here and as the number four seed you would be expecting him to get to the semi-finals to make it to the last four he obviously dispatched Rafael Nadal the 14 time champion in round one and since then has come through a few tough matches but last night Wednesday night no such problems for him against the Australian Alex deor straight sets for the German who is continuing his quest to win the French Open here in Paris and then later in the year also in the French Capital try to defend his Olympic gold medal R also I mean the match against diau I mean featured some pivotal moments also especially in the second set saved a set point at 56 and then clinched a crucial 39 shot rally during the tie break what does it show the the resilience and ability to make a comeback yeah and there were a lot of breaks of serve the two men were trading breaks particularly one might uh snap the serve of the other player and then there might be a break back immediately after that there was one of the evening sessions that take place here in Paris under the lights on the Main Court Philip shatri it had been the Alex deor making it to the quarterfinals the first time since Leon huitt that an Australian man had made it to the last state but going no further we now know that Alexander Zev will be going up against Casper Roode who is twice lost in the French Open final uh so he will want Mr Roode will certainly want to try to to win that match if he does get through and then make it to another French Open final and finally try to win the major title on the other side side of the draw really Stellar semi-final the Australian Open Champion yanex sinner the incoming new number one is going to make it against Carlos alcaraz we have to see because of course alcaraz is also one Majors now so the two men know what it takes to win a grand slam and we are going to have a new name on the men's trophy the Coupe de musketeer because Zev alcaraz Sinner and Roode the four of them someone is going to win the French Open for the first time all right Ross we live it at that thank you for inputs Rohan bana and Matthew abden qualified for the French Open 2024 s finals after a 76 5761 Victory against the Belgian du of sander jile and joran wian on Thursday ban n nebon won the first set 76 but could not manage to finish the match in straight sets after losing to 5-7 in the second however the duo worked their magic in the third set to break early and won the third set 61 to book their place in the semis they will face 11 seat Italian pair of Simon blei and Andrea vavasori in the semis in what will be a rematch of this year's Australian Open finals