{"id":19554,"date":"2024-05-23T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/?p=19554"},"modified":"2024-05-23T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T04:56:18","slug":"astra-sharma-advances-to-final-round-of-qualifying-at-roland-garros-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/news\/2024\/05\/23\/astra-sharma-advances-to-final-round-of-qualifying-at-roland-garros-2024","title":{"rendered":"Astra Sharma Advances to Final Round of Qualifying at Roland Garros 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WA&#8217;s Astra Sharma has moved one step closer to earning a coveted main-draw spot at Roland Garros 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Sharma progressed to the final round in the women\u2019s qualifying singles competition with an impressive 6-3 6-4 win today against Hungarian Timea Babos in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>World No.130 Sharma struck 21 winners, including seven aces, and converted all three break points she earned against the former world No.25 and two-time Roland Garros doubles champion.<\/p>\n<p>This sets up a final-round showdown with Serbian Olga Danilovic, who defeated Australian contender Kimberly Birrell 6-3 6-3 in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma now has the chance to join exclusive company, with only five Australian women completing successful qualifying campaigns at Roland Garros in the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Sharma is aiming to qualify at a major tournament for the fourth time and complete her Grand Slam qualifying set. The Perth athlete has previously qualified at Australian Open 2019, US Open 2021 and Wimbledon 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Taylah Preston was unable to capitalise on a promising start against a fellow 18-year-old, Alexandra Eala from the Philippines, in their second-round meeting. The Perth athlete led 6-4 4-2, before bowing out in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>Eala,\u00a0who won the Roland Garros girls\u2019 doubles title three years ago and trains at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Spain, also recovered from a 2-4 deficit in the deciding set before closing out a hard-fought 4-6 6-4 7-5 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Final qualifying round matches will be split across two days in Paris, with only Sharma scheduled to compete on day four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WA&#8217;s Astra Sharma has moved one step closer to earning a coveted main-draw spot at Roland Garros 2024. The 28-year-old Sharma progressed to the final round in the women\u2019s qualifying singles competition with an impressive 6-3 6-4 win today against Hungarian Timea Babos in Paris. World No.130 Sharma struck 21 winners, including seven aces, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6359,"featured_media":19555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.com.au\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}