 Coco God vs. Marta Kostruk is the first quarter final for the Ladies Australian Open for 2024. Both of our different roads to get to this stage. Kostruk ended the tournament unseeded and will take on Lu in the first round and after dropping the second set would win in 3, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. In the second round she would take on the 25th seed Merton and after dropping the first set would have to fight back to win 5-7, 6-1, 7-6. In the third round she would take on Avanessian who had just taken out the number 8 seed Sakurai in the previous round and again after dropping the first set she would fight back to win 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. In the fourth round she would take on the qualified Timmer Fever who had taken out Wozniaki, Kornay and her Dajmire along the way which was by far the easiest win of the tournament for Kostruk. Getting to win straights 6-2, 6-1 to get to the quarter final. Goff ended the tournament as the number 4 seed will play Schmidlover in the first round. There's no problem getting to win straights 6-3, 6-1. In the second round she would take on Dullahide in the number of close first set she would fight back to win 7-6, 6-2. In the third round she would take on Parks who had just taken out Layla Fernandez in the previous round. Again easy win, straights sets for Goff, 6-1, 6-2. In the fourth round she would take on Frey who had taken out Caroline Garcia in the second round and again an easy win for Goff 6-1, 6-2 to get to the quarter final. These two have only played the one time before it was in Adelaide in 2022 with Goff getting a close 3 set win so if Kostruk is going to try and get Goff who's in much better form than she was 2 years ago it's going to have to remember that time and try and use that game plan and see what happened. If Kostruk is going to win this one she's going to have to try and eliminate the nerves super early. She also can't go down early in the match because we've seen with Goff when someone goes down early in the match it's very very hard for them to come back. Goff has a lot to set so she has to go for a really good start and be aggressive against Goff make her move. If Goff is going to win this one she just needs to keep doing what she's doing. She is the experienced player here despite being slightly younger but she's been in this quarter final situation before she also won a slam so she knows how to play big matches. Kostruk has never been here she doesn't know what to do so Goff just has to use that to her advantage and maybe get the crowd on her side as well. It's going to be an interesting matchup because Kostruk of course wasn't expected to be this matchup. Goff I think we all expected her here. I've got to go with Goff in straight sets. I think the moment might be a little bit too much for Kostruk. She's done really well to get into the stage but Coco Goff is so much better right now and so much more experienced but let me know in the comments below who's making the semis.