Soccer player Wag and unseeded tennis star cause huge Australian Open upset as she KO’s world no. 6 Jessica Pegula

JESSICA PEGULA was dramatically dumped out of the Australian Open in the third round by unseeded Serbian Olga Danilovic.

World no. 55 stormed to a 7-6 6-1 victory to set up a fourth-round showdown with Spanish no. 11-seed Paula Badosa.

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Danilovic, 23, had never reached the first round at the Australian Open.

But now she has matched her best ever performance at a Grand Slam by reaching the last 16 – which she also managed at last year’s French Open.

By beating Pegula – dubbed “the world’s richest tennis star” – Danilovic cements herself as a rising star in the women’s game.

But that should come as no surprise as the Serbian left-hander has sport in his blood.

Her father, Predrag, is a Serbian former basketball player, while her mother, Svetlana Radosevic, is a sports reporter in her home country.

Not only that, but Danilovic also dates soccer royalty in Jan Oblak.

The Atletico Madrid superstar, 32, was once the most in-demand goalkeeper in world football.

But the Slovenian – once linked with Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle – decided to stay at the Wanda Metropolitano.

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Oblak has been at the club for 11 years, winning the LaLiga title, the Europa League and reaching a Champions League final.

But staying in Madrid also greatly benefited his personal life when he met Olga in the Spanish capital.

The pair went public in 2023 around the time of Roland Garros, when Olga said: “(Jan) means a lot to me … it’s now clearer why I’m based in Madrid.”

Since then, Oblak has been a regular on Danilovic’s Instagram page.

The tennis ace regularly serves up snaps of the loved-up pair together – at home, on holiday or even taking on his ‘duties’ supporting Oblak at the Wanda Metropolitano.

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