Top seed Zheng Kinwen and unplanned Amanda Anisimova each upgraded to the grass in their first semi -finals with a win at the HSBC Championship in London on Friday.
China’s Zheng fell 3–0 and below 4–2 in the second set, so that the hometown in straight sets could be defeated 6–2, 6–4. The last British standing in the tournament were treated between the sets for back problems. Zheng will face number 8 from Anisimova, who defeated fellow American Emma Navaro 6-3, 6-3. Anisimova stayed at 3-3 in the first set before winning five straight games and never let the number 3 Navaro return.
German Tatjana Maria is also increasing. He exceeded Kazakhstan number 4 Elena Raybikina more than 6-4, 7-6 (4), so that he reached his first WTA 500 semi-finals since his memorable 2022 Wimbledon run. She will clash with the second seeded Madison Keys, who returned to the three-set thriller, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 Diana Schneider of Germany, number 5 seeds out.
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Number 2 seed and two-time champion Ekaterina Alexandrova continued their discovery to do so again, as she goes to her fourth straightforwards after the partner Russian Number 8 Seed Veronica Kudematova to 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 in the Netherlands.
After his two-hour and 20-minute match, Alexandrova will face Germany’s third seed Ellis Martens, who would appear in his first Libima semi-finals after defeating Chinese’s lucky defeat U Yuan 6–0, 6-4 in straight sets, which was about an hour shorter than Alexandrova-Kudmatova.
The finalist will be guaranteed for the first time on the grass with Italian Elisbetta Koksiaretto and Romanian Elena-Gabriela Russia to face the semi-finals. Cocciaretto saved two set points to knock the Sujan Lammens of the Netherlands 6-2, 7-6 (4) and Ruse beat Canadian Bianka Andresku 6-2, 6-4 a hour and 6-2 in 18 minutes.
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