2023-09-06 17:35:07
The 25-year-old needed an hour and 13 minutes to reach the semi-finals of the fourth major tournament this season, hoping to win her second major title after the first at the beginning of this season when she was crowned champion of Australia at the expense of Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina, before she was eliminated from the semi-finals of Roland Garros by the Czech Republic. Carolina Muchova and Wimbledon by Tunisian Anas Jaber.
Sabalenka will face in the semi-finals with the winner of the ninth-ranked Wimbledon champion, Czech Marketa Vondrousova and seventeenth American Madison Keys, the runner-up of 2017, hoping that she will now overcome this barrier after her career stopped at him in the past two years at the hands of Canadian Leila Fernandez and Chivontec, respectively.
Sabalenka did not find it difficult to resolve her first confrontation ever with Jing, who achieved an achievement by reaching the quarter-finals in Flushing Meadows, especially since the 20-year-old Chinese, ranked 23 in the world, had never gone beyond the third round in any of her previous seven participations in the four tournaments. Grand.
“I played very well,” said the Belarusian. “I am happy with the match I played and with a new opportunity to go as far as possible in the US Open.”
And after she broke her opponent’s serve twice in the first set on her way to settling it quite easily 6-1, Sabalenka faced some difficulty in the second, as her Chinese opponent succeeded in imposing a tie until the seventh game when she gave up her serve, allowing the Belarusian to advance 4-3 and then 5-3 before That settles matters on sending it 6-4.
As a result of Chivontec relinquishing the title by losing in the fourth round to Latvian Jelena Ostapenko, the Polish will relinquish the top of the professional classification to her runner-up, Sabalenka, who commented on the matter by saying, “I am naturally happy to rise to first place. It is a very important issue, but there are things I have to do in tournaments.” The US Open this year (from now until the new rankings are issued next Monday). I will think of No. 1 when (the tournament) is over.”
Sabalenka became the first player to reach at least the semi-finals in all four major tournaments in one season since Serena Williams in 2016.
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