As the only top eight seeded in the women's singles quarterfinals in Dubai at this year's WTA500 race, Tunisia's Jabbar was eliminated after failing to continue defending the seeded player's honor in yesterday's competition.
She was eliminated by two-time Grand Slam champion Halep, who, as a two-time winner of the trophy in Dubai, has a strong play this year, although not a seeded player.
The Romanian star has defeated Riske, Ruse and Abdul-Jabbar in three rounds, all three of which are set-ended in two sets.
Another player in the top four in the first half is former French Open winner Ostapenko, who eliminated also Grand Slam champion Kvitova in the quarter-finals.
Compared to Halep's straight promotion, Ostapenko and Kvitova fought in three sets, and finally Kvitova, in the lead of 7-5 5-3, once lost six consecutive sets to swallow the invisible egg, missed the serve to win the match and wasted a match point (seven in the decider), and unfortunately stopped in the quarterfinals with a score of 7-5 7-7 6(9)).
Although the big seeded players were all damaged, the first half of the semi-finals against Ostapenko vs Halep was quite convincing.
However, the two players in the women's singles final four in the second half of the zone are still a bit of a surprise, and Russia's Kudmetova, after eliminating Azarenka in the first round and defeating defending champion Muguruza in the second round, defeated the lucky loser Taishiman in the third round and advanced to the semifinals with his head held high.
Vandrosova from the Czech Republic is the only qualifier in the women's singles final four, but she once reached the grand slam women's singles final, so her strength should not be underestimated.
Wandrowsova defeated Chaihara Yingcai, Liu Jingwen and Pudintseva in the qualifiers to advance to the main tournament, winning the 9th seed Collins in the first round.
It was clear that the warm-up for the qualifiers brought Vandrosova a good touch, and she beat Collins, Grachova and Yastremska in succession to win the final four places.
In women's doubles, the top seed combination Zhang Shuai / Shibahara Yingcai lost to Kichenok / Ostapenko missed the women's doubles semifinals, and it is worth mentioning that Ostapenko also advanced to the semifinals in the women's singles.
Xu Yipan / Yang Zhaoxuan brought good news to the fans, and the two cooperated tacitly to finally defeat the powerful American duo Gough / Pegula with a score of 6-2 6-3.
According to the schedule, the two Chinese Jinhua will face Mertens/Kudmetova in the semi-finals, after they had met at this year's Australian Open, when the Chinese combination lost, and it was expected that Xu Yipan/Yang Zhaoxuan would achieve revenge in this battle. (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)