{"id":129646,"date":"2020-01-28T02:56:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/28\/australian-open-day-nine-ash-barty-v-petra-kvitova-live\/"},"modified":"2020-01-28T02:56:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:56:47","slug":"australian-open-day-nine-ash-barty-v-petra-kvitova-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129646","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open day nine: Ash Barty v Petra Kvitov\u00e1 \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the quarter-final at Rod Laver ArenaAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 1.56am GMT Kenin, of the US, is through to her maiden grand slam semi-final, having just beaten Tunisia\u2019s Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 after an hour and 32 minutes in the first match of the day on Rod Laver. Kenin, the first woman through to the semis, will play the winner of Barty v Kvitov\u00e1 next. But the American 14th seed says she doesn\u2019t care who she meets. \u201cI\u2019m in the semi-finals, at this point whoever I play they\u2019re playing really well.\u201d She\u2019ll be watching on though. \u201cI\u2019ll watch it\u2019ll be an exciting match.\u201d 1.45am GMT With the nation\u2019s recently-installed favourite athlete of all-time, Nick Kyrgios, now departed from the single\u2019s draw, home hopes firmly rest on the shoulders of Ash Barty, a woman who genuinely has a lock on a place in Australian hearts. Today on Rod Laver Arena, the world No 1 faces her toughest challenge yet at this year\u2019s tournament at Melbourne Park. Barty comes into this clash having won her last three matches against Petra Kvitov\u00e1, but also with the memory of last year\u2019s drubbing at the hands of the Czech at the same stage of the Australian Open lingering in the back of her mind. Of course, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then \u2013 including wins for Barty in Miami, Beijing and at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen, not to mention a French Open triumph and her ascension to the summit of the rankings \u2013 and she should be quietly confident of going further than she has been before at this tournament by booking a spot in the semi-finals. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2020\/jan\/28\/australian-open-day-nine-ash-barty-v-petra-kvitova-live\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open day nine: Ash Barty v Petra Kvitov\u00e1 \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the quarter-final at Rod Laver ArenaAny thoughts? Email or tweet @mike_hytner 1.56am GMT Kenin, of the US, is through to her maiden grand slam semi-final, having just beaten Tunisia\u2019s Ons Jabeur 6-4, 6-4 after an hour and 32 minutes in the first match of the day on Rod [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}