WTA Final: Sabalenka showed off her credentials and became the first to reach the semi-finals

It seems that nothing interferes with the successful goals of the Belarusian tennis player Arina Sabalenko (1st place), who once again demonstrated her abilities this Monday, defeating the Italian with a score of 6-3 and 7-5. Jasmine Paolini (4th) expand your dreamed relevance and become reached the semi-finals of the WTA finals for the first time.

After celebrating a 6-3, 6-4 score against China’s Qinwen Zheng (7th seed) on her debut, the recent US Open champion had a tough battle with one of the season’s biggest discoveries standing up to her and losing twice. given points in the second sleeve, total five aces, 65% of points earned on first serve, 27 winners, 33 unforced errors And five break points specific V 90 minutes games.

Thus, a native of Minsk, 26 years old, winner of 17 titles, became first world number 1 to surpass Round robin system in two competitions in a row from 2013/2014when the legendary American Serena Williams She proved herself both times, beating China’s Li Na and Romania’s Simona Halep respectively.

But Anton Dubrov’s student became second to beat top five on current calendara result of her previous successes against Iga Swiatek (1st place) in Cincinnati, North American Coco Gauff (4th place) in Wuhan and the aforementioned Zheng in Wuhan (5th place), as well as a tournament combining the top eight players of the season.

At the end of the purple group, Sabalenka will meet with the Kazakh. Elena Rybakina (5th place), who lost 7-6 (5) and 6-4 to Paolini and 7-6 (4), 3-6 and 6-1 to Zheng, leaving him no chance to advance to the next instance.

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