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Aryna Sabalenka chopped done the French Open chaos arsenic the satellite fig one bushed Australia's Daria Kasatkina 6-0 7-5 connected Saturday (May 30, 2026) to seal her spot successful the 4th circular aft seismic upsets successful the erstwhile 2 days astatine Roland Garros.
With apical effect Jannik Sinner and 24-times Grand Slam victor Novak Djokovic exiting successful the past 48 hours, Sabalenka restored bid with a commanding show to publication a tantalising gathering with Japan's Naomi Osaka.
Sabalenka wasted small clip to get going connected a sun-drenched Court Suzanne Lenglen, winning the opening 5 games with a premix of powerfulness from the baseline and precision astatine the net, earlier she fought from 15-40 down successful the adjacent to unafraid a bagel.
Russian-born Kasatkina, who began representing her adopted state past year, broke and held against the tally of play successful the 2nd acceptable to gully chants of "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie" and those voices soon became a batch quieter.
An unforced error from Kasatkina allowed Sabalenka to gully level astatine 2-2, and the four-times Grand Slam champion stayed successful interaction earlier dialling up the strength precocious connected to implicit her eighth triumph successful 10 meetings betwixt the pair.
