Miami Open: Rybakina still on track for Sunshine Double, through to ...
Mar 25, 2023; Miami, Florida, US; Elena Rybakina (KAZ) serves against Paula Badosa (ESP) (not pictured) on day six of the Miami Open at Hard Rock Stadium. (AI/Reuters/Panoramic)
Kazakh Elena Rybakina, the No 10 seed, won against Italian Martina Trevisan, the No 25 seed, 6-3, 6-0 to move into the semi-finals of the Miami Open at the Hard Rock Stadium on Tuesday.
She is the first woman to reach her first two WTA 1000 semi-finals in back-to-back tournaments since Sofia Kenin (in Toronto and Cincinnati in 2019).
This was Rybakina’s 12th win in a row. Out of her 18 career semi-finals, this is her 13th on a hard court.
Rybakina, ranked No 7, will face the winner of the match between American Jessica Pegula, the No 3 seed, and Russian Anastasia Potapova, the No 27 seed, next.
Earlier in the tournament, the Kazakh beat Russian Anna Kalinskaya (7-5, 4-6, 6-3), Spaniard Paula Badosa, the No 21 seed (3-6, 7-5, 6-3) and Belgian Elise Mertens (6-4, 6-3).
Trevisan, ranked No 24, won against Japanese qualifier Nao Hibino (6-4, 6-3), American Claire Liu (4-6, 7-5, 6-4) and Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the No 24 seed (6-3, 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Miami tournament.
Miami WTA 1000, other last eight results (Hard Rock Stadium, hard, USD 8.800.000, most recent results first):
Sorana Cirstea vs. Aryna Sabalenka Ekaterina Alexandrova vs. Petra Kvitova Jessica Pegula vs. Anastasia Potapova
