Australian Open 2023 final: Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka face off in Melbourne

Aryna Sabalenka (right) won the Australian Open doubles rubric 2 years agone alongside Belgian Elise Mertens

Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina volition conscionable 5th effect Aryna Sabalenka successful the Australian Open last connected Saturday arsenic she bids for a 2nd Grand Slam title.

"Everything was caller astatine Wimbledon," satellite fig 25 Rybakina said.

"It's tense nary substance what due to the fact that it's a last [but] present I much oregon little recognize what to expect."

Meanwhile, Britain's satellite fig 1 Alfie Hewett will effort to adhd a archetypal Australian Open rubric to his tally of six Grand Slam wheelchair singles titles.

Hewett, 25, plays 16-year-old Tokito Oda of Japan a time aft winning a 16th Grand Slam doubles rubric alongside Gordon Reid astatine Melbourne Park.

The women's last takes spot from 08:30 GMT, with BBC Radio 5 Sports unrecorded providing commentary (UK only) alongside unrecorded substance commentary connected the BBC Sport website and app.

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Rising prima Rybakina goes for much glory

Rybakina has different changeable astatine a large rubric arsenic she contests her 2nd last successful 3 Grand Slam tournaments.

The 22nd effect has been 1 of the astir unheralded Wimbledon champions successful caller past arsenic a effect of her debased illustration and a lower-than-expected ranking, caused by points not being awarded astatine the All England Club past year.

Despite being made to statesman her tourney connected a tiny extracurricular court, she has utilised the endowment that took her to glory astatine SW19 to conflict her mode done an unfavourable draw.

The 23-year-old knocked retired satellite fig 1 Iga Swiatek successful the past 16, either broadside of notable wins against 2022 runner-up Danielle Collins and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko.

It is acceptable to beryllium a last dominated by almighty hitting, with Rybakina firing 45 aces truthful acold and Sabalenka hitting 196 winners.

Sabalenka aims to extremity Slam wait

Sabalenka took a immense measurement successful her vocation by beating unseeded Pole Magda Linette successful the semi-finals to acceptable up the gathering with Rybakina.

The satellite fig 5 had mislaid each 3 of her erstwhile Grand Slam semi-finals, reaching the past 4 astatine Wimbledon successful 2021 arsenic good arsenic astatine the 2021 and 2022 US Opens.

The 24-year-old has not dropped a acceptable this year, winning each 10 of her matches and clinching the rubric astatine the Adelaide International warm-up lawsuit earlier the archetypal large of the year.

Sabalenka has agelong been tipped to triumph a singles Slam rubric but has often crumbled successful cardinal unit moments. However, she believes taking power of her emotions some connected and disconnected the tribunal has led to her improved form.

"I realised that cipher different than maine volition help. In pre-season, I spoke to my psychologist, saying: 'Listen, I consciousness similar I person to woody with that by myself, due to the fact that each clip hoping that idiosyncratic volition hole my problem, it's not fixing my problem'," Sabalenka said.

"I conscionable person to instrumentality this work and I conscionable person to woody with that. I'm my psychologist."

Top-ranked Hewett looks to extremity Australian Open wait

Briton Hewett's six large singles titles to day person been divided betwixt the French Open and US Open, having been denied successful the last of some Wimbledon and the US Open by erstwhile satellite fig 1 Shingo Kunieda past year.

But pursuing the Japanese wheelchair tennis legend's retirement, Hewett assumed the fig 1 presumption earlier the tourney and is present 1 triumph distant from ending his hold for solo occurrence successful Melbourne.

Japanese teen Oda is the antheral successful his mode connected this juncture and, coming disconnected the backmost of his doubles success, Hewett says helium volition permission everything connected the tribunal connected Saturday.

"This is my 3rd consecutive singles last truthful I'm relishing the accidental to get retired determination and crook that effect astir due to the fact that it's 1 I truly want," Hewett said.

"I volition beryllium putting everything retired determination tomorrow, leaving 100% similar I usually do," helium added.

"He's a young and up-and-coming kid who's got truthful overmuch endowment successful what helium brings to our sport. I deliberation it's going to alteration it. He's taking the shot truthful well, he's playing with a batch of aggression and however helium manages the juncture tomorrow, we'll see."