Published on : 04/05/2022 – 22:28Modified : 04/05/2022 – 22:27
Madrid (AFP) – Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the last representative of the top 10 in the race, was the first to qualify for the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid after her clear victory 6-3, 6-2 against Simona Halep, ex-N.1 world today 21st, Wednesday.
At the opening of the program, Jabeur spent only 67 minutes on the Central Madrid to get rid of his Romanian opponent.
Halep beaten, we now know that a player will open her record in the WTA 1000 on Saturday, since the last four in the running have never won in a tournament of this caliber, the most difficult after the Grand Slams.
For her second semi-final at this level (after Indian Wells 2021), Jabeur (10th) will face Russian qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova (45th) on Thursday, victorious over American Amanda Anisimova (33rd) 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
For his first two tournaments of the season on clay, Jabeur (27) reached the final in Charleston (United States) and the quarter-finals in Stuttgart (Germany).
The second semi-final will pit the American Jessica Pegula (14th) against the Swiss Jil Teichmann (35th).
Pegula overcame the fiercer resistance than the score of the Spaniard Sara Sorribes (47th) 6-4, 6-2 in 1h47 min indicates.
Teichmann ended the course of the Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina (37th) 6-3, 6-4.
The Swiss is the only one of the four semi-finalists to have already played in a WTA 1000 final: it was in Cincinnati last summer. She lost there against the then world N.1, Ashleigh Barty, who has since ended her career by surprise.
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