Back in 1992, Steffi Graf moved into the Olympic gold medal match after seeing off Mary Joe Fernandez in the semi-finals. Graf, who beat Fernandez 6-4, 6-2, had already taken home the gold medal four years earlier at the Seoul Games.
American tennis prodigy Coco Gauff enters Thursday’s Australian Open semi-final against World No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka as the betting underdog. Still, if history is any indicator, there’s ample reason to feel optimistic about Gauff defying the odds and winning her second major.
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Can you name every women's Australian Open tennis champion in the Open Era?Note: The Open was moved from January to December in 1977, so there were two Opens played in that year. It was moved again in 1986 from December to January, so there was no Open played in 1986.