The Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, Number one in WTA’s rank, it takes two ‘ti breaks’ and two hours and thirty two minutes to win 7-6 (4) and 7-6 (7), in an epic, in Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk36 of the world, putting the strings on his rival.
Sabalenka achieved a sufficient success that was resolved in a last ‘tiebreak’ where Kostyuk was always ahead and came to have three balls to win the set. He couldn’t tie it, as it happened in the first set with 5-4.
However, the Belarusian did not tremble his legs at a decisive moment and, with two accurate blows in line, he managed to take the victory as well as the protagonist rain, which appeared in the Madrid sky and forced the game within minutes to put the sliding roof and cover the track.
Kostyuk signed a complete party and, without a haystorm, had a higher percentage (69 %) at the first service in Sabalenka (65 %), where it also achieved more reception points (48) than Belarusian (44).
In success, Sabalenka is equivalent to Czech Petra Kvitova and the Romanian Simona Halep With four semifinal participants in Madrid and also adding 29 wins until 2025, as a player this year.
Kostyuk, who was able to win two sets but could not maintain the advantage and ended the departure, lost all three games against Songenka, the latter for his first time in the rooms in his sixth participation in Madrid.
Susure will measure the semifinals in Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, while the other semifinals will be played by American Coco Gaff and the Polish Iga Swiatek.
Source: La Verdad
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