The Croatian’s extraordinary renaissance added another chapter at this year’s Australian Open on Wednesday when the comeback queen upset fifth seed Karolina Pliskova 6-4 3-6 6-4 at Rod Laver Arena.
It was her second major upset after taking down third seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the second round.
Lucic-Baroni had already deemed her run to this year’s Australian Open quarter-finals “so much better” than the run which took her to the Wimbledon semifinals in 1999, a run in which she defeated Monica Seles before falling to Steffi Graf.
This then is next level.
“I know this means a lot to every player to reach the semifinals but to me this is overwhelming. I will never ever, ever forget this day or the last couple of weeks,” Lucic-Baroni said.
“This has truly made my life and everything bad that happened, it has made it OK.
“Just the fact that I was this strong and that it was worth fighting for, it’s really incredible.”
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