the belarusian Aryna Sabalenka She is the current Australian Open champion, recent WTA 1000 finalist in Indian Wells. With 20 wins and only 2 losses, she is destined to fight for the WTA 1000 title in Miami.
But the tournament was a continuous trap for the favorites because before the box was opened the Polish girl went down in it Iga Swiatekworld number one, due to health problems.
The quarterfinal round continued with another victim in the demise of the top seeds. Aryna Sabalenka fell in Romanian Sorana Cirstea, 74th in ranking but heroine of the week. At 32 years old, ten years later she returned to a ‘semis’ of a WTA 1000 tournament.
He had previously warned of reaching the quarterfinals of Indian Wells, losing to Swiatek. In Miami, she continued her streak with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Sabalenka. He will come to the appointment in Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova wave Czech Petra Kvitova without giving up a set.
Cirstea has already removed the French Caroline Garcia and two Czechs backed by good results recently, Karolina Muchova and Marketa Vondrousova. But he climbed into another category, beating the top-2 for the first time.
Although two heavyweights of the circuit have slipped to the top of the table. Something fell off the train between the Indian Wells champion and the Australian Open finalist, as well as the queen of Wimbledon, the Kazakh. Elena Rybakina, and the American Jessica Pegula, the great local hope and third seed.
They did their homework in quarters. Rybakina sweeping the Italian Martina Trevisan by 6-3 and 6-0, as Pegula extinguished the fire of revelation, the Russian Anastasia Potapova4-6, 6-3 and 7-6 (2).
Rybakina followed back in the third round with a ‘match’ ball to Paula Badosa, which he also eliminated in Indian Wells. The Catalan meets a tennis player on a roll. Painting did not help for his comeback.
Source: La Verdad
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