Miami Garden, Fla. ( Associated Press) — Reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina extended her winning streak to 12 matches and hit at least 10 aces in a straight quarter to beat Martin 6-3, 6-0. to the semifinals of the Miami Open.
With today’s 10 aces, Rybakina reached 46 in four matches at the hard court tournament in Florida and 201 this season, most in the WTA.
The 23-year-old Kazakh improved to 20-4 in 2023, including the Australian Open final in January and last week’s Indian Wells title.
She is just trying to become the fifth player to win the Indian and Miami trophies in the same year. World-ranked No. 1 Iga Swiatek did it last year, but left Miami this season with a rib injury.
“Obviously, it’s amazing to do something like that,” Rybakina (10th seed) said about the possibility of completing the doubles title. “But I’m still far away.”
So far in her career, Rybakina has made 13 of her 18 semifinal appearances on hard courts. She will meet the winner of the duel between Jessica Pegula (3) and Anastasia Potapova (27) in the last place.
Trevisan played in the semifinals of the 2022 French Open.
In the fourth round of the men’s division, Stefanos Tsitsipas (2) lost to Karen Khachanov (14) 7-6 (4), 6-4, while Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the same as Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner, won the seed. opponent goes straight to the quarterfinals.
Alcaraz, who returned to the place of honor last week, defeated Tommy Paul, Australian Open semifinalist, 6-4, 6-4, to set up a duel against Fritz, the best ranked American in the ranking. ninth seed in Miami.
Fritz made twice as many game winners (22), unforced errors (11), and served only one in a 6-3, 6-4 win over Holger Rune (7).
With this victory, Fritz advanced to the quarterfinals in seven appearances on the hard court tournament.
Sinner (10) eliminated Andrey Rublev (6) in 6-2, 6-4, the victory and the rest without dropping into the tournament.
The next opponent of the sinner will be Emil Ruusuvuori, who prevailed 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in Botic van de Zandschulp (26th).
