Ladies’s world No 1 Iga Swiatek survived a scare in opposition to 17-year-old future star Mirra Andreeva of their Cincinnati Open quarter-final, coming from a set all the way down to win.
Swiatek was damaged in her second service sport of the match as she misplaced the opener 6-4, the Pole lacking out on 4 break-back alternatives, together with two when Andreeva was serving for the set.
Andreeva was, nevertheless, instantly damaged to start out the second set as Swiatek levelled the match and compelled a decider.
With the competition deadlocked at 5-5 within the closing set, Swiatek earned what seemed to be the essential break.
However again got here Andreeva, incomes a break-point likelihood within the very subsequent sport that may have compelled a deciding tie-break, just for Swiatek to carry agency and clinch a hard-fought victory three factors later.
The five-time Grand Slam winner will subsequent face soon-to-be world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka within the semi-finals following her comfy 6-3 6-2 victory over Liudmila Samsonova.
Sabalenka is seeded third for the match, however is about to leapfrog Cincinnati defending champion Coco Gauff within the ladies’s rakings after her disappointing second-round exit.
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