The United States’ Hailey Baptiste defeated Russia’s fifth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova on Thursday on the indoor hard court’s only three-set match, 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the Mubadala \u200bAbu Dhabi Open in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
Baptiste<\/a> took advantage of her four aces<\/a> compared to Samsonova<\/a>‘s zero. Baptiste \u200cadvances to face Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova<\/a>, the No. 2 \u200cseed who won convincingly against the Philippines’ Alexandra Eala<\/a>, 6-3, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Czech Republic’s Sara Bejlek<\/a> needed just 63 minutes to earn a 6-0, 6-2<\/a> win against the United \u2060Kingdom’s Sonay Kartal<\/a>. Denmark’s third-seeded Clara Tauson<\/a> handled the United States’ \u200cMcCartney Kessler<\/a> 6-3, 6-4,<\/a> and will face Bejlek in the \u200bother semifinal.<\/p>\n Ostrava Open<\/p>\n No seeded players remain alive entering the semifinals after Germany’s Tamara Korpatsch<\/a> took down No. 6 seed Caty McNally<\/a> 6-4, 6-2<\/a> in Ostrava, Czech Republic.<\/p>\n Korpatsch moves on to face France’s Diane Parry<\/a>, who \u200cskated past Nikola Bartunkova<\/a> of the Czech Republic 6-1, 6-3<\/a> in 66 minutes.<\/p>\n The other semifinal will pit Great Britain’s Katie Boulter<\/a> against American Katie Volynets<\/a>. Boulter won \u206018 of 23 first-service points and beat Czech foe Linda Fruhvirtova<\/a> 6-3, 6-2<\/a> in 68 minutes, while Volynets rallied to beat countrywoman Alycia Parks<\/a> 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.<\/a><\/p>\n Transylvania Open<\/p>\n Top seed Emma Raducanu<\/a> of Great Britain kept her perfect week going with a 6-0, 6-4<\/a> triumph over Poland’s Maja Chwalinska<\/a> in the quarterfinals in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.<\/p>\n Raducanu dropped only one service point in the first set as she cruised to victory. Her \u2060semifinal opponent will be Ukraine’s Oleksandra Oliynykova<\/a>, who \u200cupset fourth seed Xinyu Wang<\/a> of China 6-4, 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n No. 3 seed Sorana Cirstea<\/a> saved 5 of 7 break points as she took down No. 5 seed Anastasia Potapova<\/a> of Austria 7-5, 6-4<\/a>. Cirstea also will \u2060face a Ukrainian in the semis, Daria \u200bSnigur<\/a>, who charged past China’s Yue Yuan<\/a>\u00a04-6, 6-0, 7-5.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States’ Hailey Baptiste defeated Russia’s fifth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova on Thursday on the indoor hard court’s only…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-413080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}