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Enable Cookies<\/a> \n That\u2019s now NINE consecutive tournaments without a title for Aryna Sabalenka\n <\/p>\n Madrid – QF<\/p>\n Rome – R32<\/p>\n French Open – QF<\/p>\n Berlin – SF<\/p>\n Wimbledon – R16<\/p>\n Toronto – R16<\/p>\n Cincinnati – R16<\/p>\n US Open – Final<\/p>\n Beijing – R32<\/p>\n Sabalenka, who was denied a US Open three-peat by Rybakina last month, squandered five break points in the opening set as her struggles in Beijing continued.<\/p>\n The 28-year-old Belarusian has never progressed beyond the quarter-finals at the tournament.<\/p>\n Bartunkova, the No 26 seed, will next face Austria’s 24-year-old Sinja Kraus, who defeated Dayana Yastremska 6-1 6-4 earlier on Sunday.<\/p>\n Fifth seed Mirra Andreeva eased into the fourth round with a 6-4 6-1 victory over Polina Kudermetova.<\/p>\n The French Open champion fired six aces and converted five of seven break-point opportunities to overwhelm her Uzbek opponent in just 68 minutes.<\/p>\n Alcaraz into Tokyo semi-finals <\/p>\n Image: Top seed Carlos Alcaraz advanced to the semi-finals of the Japan Open after Denis Shapovalov was forced to retire with a hip injury, extending the Spaniard’s strong return from a four-month wrist injury lay-off.<\/p>\n The defending champion was leading 7-6 (7-4) 2-1 when the Canadian called it a day.<\/p>\n “It was a little bit frustrating with my serve. I couldn’t find a good way of serving: I was struggling almost every game on serve,” Alcaraz said after dropping serve three times in the opening set.<\/p>\n “But I’m just happy with the way I came back after every break. It was a great first set: Great points, great rallies.”<\/p>\n The Spaniard said he was disappointed to progress in such circumstances.<\/p>\n Twitter<\/p>\n This content is provided by Twitter, which may be using cookies and other technologies. Unfortunately we have been unable to verify if you have consented to Twitter cookies. Enable Cookies<\/a> “It’s a shame that he had to pull out. Going through to a semi-final like this is not the way I wanted, but sometimes sports are tough. You have to accept it. Hopefully he’s going to be able to play in Shanghai healthy.”<\/p>\n Alcaraz will face compatriot Jaume Munar in the semi-finals after the qualifier defeated France’s Kyrian Jacquet 6-4 6-2.<\/p>\n Stream tennis with no contract on NOW<\/a> and the Sky Sports App<\/a>. You can watch the WTA\/ATP China Open and ATP 1000 Shanghai Masters live on Sky Sports. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after world No 1 Elena Rybakina was knocked out of the China Open, world No 2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-636707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n Carlos Alcaraz has reached back-to-back Tokyo semi-finals<\/p>\n
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