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Linz winner Sabalenka triumphs at the Australian Open

The women's finals at the Australian Open 2023 were dominated by Linz winners! Aryna Sabalenkawho will compete in the 2020 final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz who triumphed against Belgium's Elise Mertens, won her first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne on Saturday! The 24-year-old Sabalenka, who will be ranked number two in the tennis world again from Monday, defeated Elena Rybakina (Kazakhstan) 4:6, 6:3, 6:4.
 
In the doubles final on Sunday Katerina Siniakova/Barbora Krejcikova another top success in their doubles career together. The two Czech women won the women's doubles final of the Australian Open 2023 against Japan's Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara 6:4, 6:3.
 
Katerina Siniakova comes to Linz as a recent Australian Open winner, where she has already become a crowd favourite - and has also celebrated successes. In 2019, Siniakova and her partner Krejcikova won the doubles competition at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz; in the final, the pair celebrated a 6:4, 6:3 victory over the Austrian-Swiss duo Barbara Haas/Xenia Knoll.  

The track record of Siniakova, who fascinates her fans with her refreshing naturalness, is impressive. Her greatest successes include triumphs in the doubles competitions at the Australian Open (2023, 2022), the French Open (2018, 2021), Wimbledon (2018, 2022), the US Open (2022) and the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with Barbora Krejcikova. Siniakova also won the Fed Cup with the Czech Republic in 2018. On 22 October 2018, she became the 41st number one in the doubles world rankings.