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Elena Rybakina aced past Alja Tomljanovic to reach her first career major semifinal at Wimbledon. Photo credit: Getty. With a final powerful ace, Elena Rybakina ...

Serving for the match again later at 5-3, Rybakina made no mistakes this time. That allowed Tomljanovic to break for 2-5 and stay in the contest. Rybakina assumed control of the third set and the match when she broke Tomljanovic early on for 2-0 lead. Rybakina raced out to a 5-1 lead and served for the match. Rybakina finally started to make more in-roads into the Australian’s game as she forced Tomljanovic out of her strike zone. Tomljanovic couldn’t sustain her momentum as she quickly fell behind a service break in her opening game of the second set.

No.17 seed Elena Rybakina came from a set down to defeat Ajla Tomljanovic at Wimbledon and become the first Kazakh to reach a Grand Slam semifinal.

A slew of unforced errors saw her fail to serve out the match, and when she reached match point on the Tomljanovic serve at 5-2, her forehand found the net. But stepping up to the line a second time, Rybakina made no mistake. In the second set, it was Rybakina's turn to be near-watertight on serve, conceding only one point behind her first delivery. Match management: Tomljanovic, contesting her second straight Wimbledon quarterfinal and also bidding to reach her first major semifinal, opened the match in formidable form. She hit back at the start of the second set, breaking Tomljanovic with an efficient dropshot-volley combination for 2-0. Prior to Wimbledon, Rybakina had not reached a quarterfinal since Indian Wells in March, and she had won only one grass-court match in two tournaments.

Elena Rybakina reached her first Grand Slam semi-final after fighting back to beat Ajla Tomljanovic in three sets at Wimbledon.

"I want to say a really big thanks to the people who came to watch us today and supported us. "I started a bit slow, I didn't serve that well," Rybakina explained. We've already played a few times - it was a tough battle. "I am really happy that I got through to the semi final. "I tried to focus on my serve to find my way and in the end I found it." It’s really nice and an amazing atmosphere.

While Ajla Tomljanovic exits Wimbledon 2022 in the quarterfinals, she sees another career-best run at SW19 as a stepping stone to further success.

There were brief signs of a recovery when Tomljanovic broke serve as Rybakina first served for the match at 5-2 in the third set, but it proved only temporary. “I’m really proud of the fact that I managed to play back-to-back quarters. “I definitely think it’s been a step forward, and I can just build off of that.” But with a run of seven games straight, Rybakina convincingly claimed the ascendancy. (It was) actually one of the cleanest sets I’ve played all tournament,” Tomljanovic said. Combining power with precision, especially with her backhand, Tomljanovic was the early aggressor on Wimbledon’s No.1 Court.

The Croatian-born Australian tennis player's relationship with Kyrgios is said to have ended in 2018.

“Given the matter is before the court … he doesn’t have a comment at this stage, but in the fullness of time we’ll issue a media release.” He said: “The nature of the allegation is serious, and Mr Kyrgios takes the allegation very seriously. A police statement said: “ACT Policing can confirm a 27-year-old Watson man is scheduled to face the ACT Magistrates’ Court on August 2 in relation to one charge of common assault following an incident in December 2021.”