Simona Halep
Despite the fact that many tennis enthusiasts expected the Romanian to face big problems with Naomi Osaka, there was a lack of experience of the latter, and Halep made his life easy, losing only 5 games in the best the final.
Before eliminating Osaka, Simo had passed Aiava, Bouchard and Davis, losing the set only in the last match, which was the most spectacular.
Thanks to the victory in optimi, Halep has reached for the third time in the AO quarter, which is, in fact, his best result at this Grand Slam.

Karolina Pliskova
The favorite with number 6 of the competition, Pliskova had great emotions in the finals, where congressional Barbora Strycova managed to steal a set.
In the other three matches played by Karolina, she had not lost set, but she was also in difficulty with a Lucia Safarova conationala of her, in the 3rd round.
Thus, Pliskova reached for the second time in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, after having done so in the previous year.

Direct meetings
No less than six direct confrontations have taken place between the two players so far, with the result being definitely in favor of romance, 5-1. The last match between the two took place at Roland Garros in 2017, when Simona scored 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.