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Best bets for the 2024 Australian Open

Aryna Sabalenka to win 2-1 v Coco Gauff
1pt 16-5 Coral, Ladbrokes

Qinwen Zheng to win 2-1 v D Yastremska
1pt 7-4 bet365, Hills

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Australian Open women's semi-final predictions

Coco Gauff v Aryna Sabalenka

The outright odds suggest the winner of Thursday's semi-final between Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka will go on to win the women's Australian Open this year and it is hard to dispute that.

The bottom half of the women's draw in Melbourne has looked the stronger and it will culminate in what could be a classic semi-final.

There are plenty of reasons to get behind fourth seed Coco Gauff, the Racing Post’s pre-tournament outright selection who is yet to lose a match in 2024, having won the ASB Classic in preparation for the season's first Grand Slam.

She has dug deep in Melbourne and didn't drop a set until her quarter-final clash with Marta Kostyuk.

Gauff can also draw from her experience of winning a hard-court Grand Slam at the US Open last year and she has enjoyed a terrific six months on the WTA tour.

But Sabalenka is, of course, defending champion at the Australian Open and it has been easy to see why.

She is yet to drop a set in the Grand Slam, conceding only 16 games in five matches, and looked in much better touch than Gauff in the quarters, requiring only 71 minutes to take down ninth seed Barbora Krejcikova.

Remarkably that was Sabalenka's longest match at the tournament this year and she should be sharper than Gauff, who made 51 unforced errors in her tight 7-6 6-7 6-2 triumph over Kostyuk.

Having reached the semi-finals of her last six Grand Slams, Sabalenka looks appropriately priced to win the match and progress to a second successive Australian Open final.

But this could one of her toughest matches yet this season and backing her to win in three sets is the way to go.

Verdict by Liam Flin

Dayana Yastremska v Qinwen Zheng

The second women's semi-final features two relatively shock contenders as Ukrainian qualifier Dayana Yastremska takes on China's Qinwen Zheng for a spot in Saturday's final.

World number 15 Zheng became a likely semi-finalist once Elena Rybakina and Iga Swiatek suffered early exits but the presence of Yastremska in the penultimate round is more surprising given how she's struggled to find her best form in recent seasons.

These two have never met before but bookmakers look correct in making Zheng the favourite. She has been on a steady upward curve and ended 2023 in excellent form, winning gold at the Asian Games and landing a WTA title in her homeland before reaching the Elite Trophy final in Zhuhai.

Yastremska is ranked 93rd in the world but, at her best, she's capable of much better having been ranked as high as 21st on the WTA Tour in 2020.

She has been an underdog in four of her five main-draw matches in Melbourne and will attempt to defy that status again but Zheng, who has long looked destined for the world's top ten, could prove a bridge too far.

The Chinese player has been pushed to three sets in three of her five Aussie Open matches, so it could pay to back the favourite to win in a decider.

Verdict by Joe Champion

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