the belarusian Aryna Sabalenkaworld number two, specializes in the current edition of Madrid to stop the revelation players: after defeating the Colombian Camila Osorio in the round of 16 and the 16-year-old Russian Mirra Andreeva in the round of 16, this Tuesday they defeated the Egyptian in the quarterfinals Mayor Sheriff through 2-6, 6-2 and 6-1 and tied his pass to the semifinals.
This time it cost him more and he left a set along the way. With a great service and legs that can do anything, Sheriff He put one of the main contenders for the title in real trouble.
The ‘break’ achieved by Sheriff59 in the world, in the first game was more than a warning. Sabalenka He made only three points in the rest of the entire initial sleeve and did not even dream of recovering the lost serve. On the contrary, he gave up one more, in the fifth game. It was the first set he lost in the entire tournament.
Neither the game nor the actions of Sabalenka they offered good feelings, but he was able to respond with two breaks where he started the second set and added another that, for the first time in the encounter, put him ahead (4-2). In a blank service game and helped by a bunch of errors from SheriffLess confident on the serve (from a percentage of the first serve of more than 90% to one of 80), the Belarusian re-established the natural order by winning the second set.
The Egyptian player, with one title on his record (Parma, 2022), trained by the Spaniards in Elche just gonzalez, did not give up the fight but lost accuracy. He also did not run like in the beginning, when he reached all the balls in time to return them placed. Opposite he found a recovered Sabalenka that snapped a ten game streak, going up 5-0 in the third. Sheriff He did the honors before going to the locker room in defeat.
The Egyptian has never played in the quarterfinal of a Masters 1,000, which he reached after eliminating the Italian. Camila Giorgithe ukrainian Angelina Kalina30th favorite, the French Caroline Garciafifth, and the Belgian elise mertens.
Sabalenkawinner of this year’s Australian Open and finalist in Indian Wells, took the title in Madrid in 2021 and will now play for a place in the final with the winner of the match between the Greek Maria Sakkari and the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu.
Source: La Verdad
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