Footballer’s Wag and unseeded tennis star causes huge Australian Open upset as she KO’s world No6 Jessica Pegula
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JESSICA PEGULA was dramatically dumped out of the Australian Open in the third round by unseeded Serbian Olga Danilovic. The world No55 stormed to a 7-6 6-1 win to set up a fourth-round clash with Spanish No11 seed Paula Badosa. Danilovic, 23, had never made it past the first round at the at the Australian Open.
![[Olga Danilovic celebrates a tennis match victory.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-serbias-olga-danilovic-celebrates-964440342.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But now she's matched her best-ever performance at a Grand Slam in reaching the last 16 - which she also managed at last year's French Open. In beating Pegula - dubbed "the world's richest tennis star" - Danilovic cements herself as a rising star in the women's game.
![[Olga Danilovic of Serbia and Jessica Pegula of the U.S. shaking hands at the Australian Open.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/olga-danilovic-right-serbia-congratulated-964437578.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
But it should come as no surprise, as the Serbian left-hander has sport in her blood. Her dad, Predrag, is Serbian former basketball player, while her mum, Svetlana Radosevic, is a sports reporter in her home nation. Not only that, Danilovic is also dating football royalty in Jan Oblak.
![[Olga Danilovic celebrating during a tennis match.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2025-serbias-olga-danilovic-reacts-964429032.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The Atletico Madrid superstar, 32, was once the most-in-demand goalkeeper in world football. But the Slovenian - once linked with the likes of Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham and Newcastle - decided to stick around at the Wanda Metropolitano.
![[Jan Oblak of Atletico de Madrid kicking a soccer ball.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/jan-oblak-atletico-de-madrid-963295603.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
CASINO SPECIAL - BEST CASINO BONUSES FROM £10 DEPOSITS. Oblak has been at the club for 11 years, won the LaLiga title, Europa League and reached a Champions League final. But sticking around in Madrid also hugely benefited his personal life, as he met Olga in the Spanish capital.
![[Couple sitting by a decorated Christmas tree.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/olga-danilovic-oblak-964438994.jpg?strip=all&w=768)
