{"id":13042,"date":"2026-01-29T08:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/australian-open-2026-live-updates-womens-semifinals-latest-with-sabalenka-vs-svitolina-pegula-also-in-action\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T08:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T08:21:48","slug":"australian-open-2026-live-updates-womens-semifinals-latest-with-sabalenka-vs-svitolina-pegula-also-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/australian-open-2026-live-updates-womens-semifinals-latest-with-sabalenka-vs-svitolina-pegula-also-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 live updates: Women\u2019s semifinals latest with Sabalenka vs. Svitolina, Pegula also in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"liveblog-post-content\">\n<p><strong>Coco Gauff<\/strong> has suggested \u201cconversations\u201d on player privacy at the Australian Open are needed after she smashed a racket in a place she thought was private \u2014 and saw it broadcast to the world.<\/p>\n<p>After her 6-1, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to Elina Svitolina on Rod Laver Arena, Gauff went in search of a private spot in the catacombs of the stadium then smashed one of her lavender Head rackets on the ground, dashing it seven times.<\/p>\n<p>But there just aren\u2019t many private spots in the player areas of the Australian Open, the tournament that turned tennis into something like an Andy Warhol film.<\/p>\n<p>Cameras are everywhere \u2014 in the parking lot, the gym, the hallways. Melbourne Park is not a video safe space for a player in the way Wimbledon and the French Open are. Gauff said:<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcac <strong><em>\u201cI kind of have a thing with the broadcast. I feel like certain moments&#8230; they don\u2019t need to broadcast.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aryna Sabalenka<\/strong>, like Gauff on Tuesday night, broke her racket thinking no one was watching. They were.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coco Gauff has suggested \u201cconversations\u201d on player privacy at the Australian Open are needed after she smashed a racket in a place she thought was private \u2014 and saw it broadcast to the world. After her 6-1, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to Elina Svitolina on Rod Laver Arena, Gauff went in search of a private spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/FRS778X6vWM1_flRcby9kFYP6_1440x960.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}