Australian Open 2025 women’s singles semifinals: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa preview, prediction, and live stream details
Aryna Sabalenka to face Paula Badosa for the eighth time in her career in the semifinals of the 2025 Australian Open.
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Aryna Sabalenka made a step further to her goal of winning the Australian Open for the third consecutive time. The Belarusian has been a standout player this season and has yet to lose a match in the ten times she has stepped on the court. But, going into the semifinals of the Melbourne Grand Slam, she has a difficult task to deal with in Paula Badosa.
Badosa continued her resurgence to the WTA Top 10 after playing some incredible tennis in the season’s opening major event. She showed character in her quarter-final match against Coco Gauff to send the American star packing, and will be looking forward to doing the same against the defending champion.
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa: Match Details
- Tournament: Australian Open 2025
- Match: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa
- Date: January 23, 2025
- Venue: Rod Laver Arena
- Round: Semifinals
- Time: TBD
- Surface: Outdoor hard court
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa: Match Preview
Aryna Sabalenka began her 2025 campaign by winning the Brisbane International title before heading to Melbourne. She opened her 2024 Australian Open campaign with a straight sets victory over former US Open champion Sloane Stephens before defeating Jessica Bouzas Maneiro 6-3, 7-5.
She continued with the momentum in the third round by defeating Clara Tauson 7-6, 6-4, and then beat teenage sensation Mirra Andreeva in straight sets. The World No.1 was severely tested in her quarter-final match against Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, as she dropped her first set of the tournament. But she did well to bounce back and win 6-2, 2-6, 6-3.
Paula Badosa, on the other hand, had secured only one win before arriving for the Australian Open. The Spaniard struggled to play her best tennis at the Brisbane International and Adelaide International. However, in Melbourne, she began with two straight sets victory against Wang Xinyu and Talia Gibson.
She faced her first test against Marta Kostyuk in the third round but did well to overcome the Ukrainian star in 6-4, 4-6, 3-6. She then fought hard to beat Serbian Olga Danilovic 6-1, 7-6(2). On Tuesday (January 21), she shocked the tennis world by defeating Coco Gauff 7-5, 6-4 to reach her first Grand Slam semifinals.
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa: Match Prediction
Aryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa have been playing some of the best tennis of the tournament. Both stars have been the standout players of the tournament but will now have to face each other for the eighth time. Sabalenka has a 5-2 lead over the Spaniard in their head-to-head record and has won all five of their past meetings.
But, out of five of those victories, four have been on clay, with one on hard court. Badosa has a 2-1 lead on hard court, though it was Sabalenka who won their last meeting on the surface.
If Badosa does play the way she did against Gauff, she might have a chance against Sabalenka. But the World No.1 has shown that she understands when to leverage on her opponent’s mistakes.
Match Prediction: Aryna Sabalenka to win in three sets
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Paula Badosa: Live Stream Details
- USA – Tennis Channel
- UK – Eurosport
- Canada – TSN, RDS
- Australia – Channel 9, Stan Sport
- India – Sony LIV
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