- Australian Open final news from Melbourne, 8.30am GMT start
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Hello! Are you ready? After two weeks of intriguing tennis under the Melbourne sun, here we are. The women’s final between the reigning champion Aryna Sabalenka and Zheng Qinwen kicks off at 8.30GMT.
You probably pencilled in Sabalenka at the beginning of the tournament. And she’s played like a queen, not dropping a set, screaming those winners into the far corners, her mental strength now as reliable as her grunts of effort. She played three major finals in the last year – losing the US Open against Coco Gauff just a few months ago, incidentally beating Zheng in the quarter final on her way there.