On March 18, Beijing time, the WTA1000 Indian Wells station match continued, the last match day played two women's singles quarterfinals, of which Swartek swept the 25th seed Keys 6-1, 6-0, halep swept Martich 6-1, 6-1 to advance to the final four. Today, the other two women's singles quarterfinals officially began.
Badosa vs Kudmetova, Badoza will be separated from Kudmetova. Bardoza won nine consecutive games at IW and lost two straight sets in the first three rounds of the trip. But the two sides have won three previous encounters, including two hard-to-ground conversations. Who do you think gets the Final Four tickets?
In the end, defending champion Bardoza beat No. 21 seed Kudmetova 6-3, 6-2 to win a wave of IW ten consecutive wins, following the Sydney leg at the beginning of the year to reach the final four again. Bardoza made her debut at the WTA1000 Indian Wells tournament last year and successfully lifted the cup, and this year she returned to the final four with a record of not losing a set, and she became the first female player since Ka Pliskova (2016, 2017) to successfully reach the semifinals in two consecutive IWs.
Espanyol is currently 10 wins in this station, and she is the seventh player to win 10 or more consecutive games at IW: Navratinova, Graf, Henin, Cristels, Serena Williams and Ivanovic (only in the main matches). Only Navratinova has ever defended her title in the history of the Games, dating back more than 30 years (1990-1991). Bardoza is two wins away from defending her title, do you think she can win for the second consecutive year? expect!
In another match, Sakkari vs Lebakina, Sakkari and Lebakina will compete for tickets to the semifinals at the WTA1000 Indian Wells station. The only previous meeting between the two sides was in St. Petersburg in 2020, when the Kazakh girl reversed the victory. Sakkari continues his recent steady play, and Lebakina returns to his early form, who will have the last laugh in this showdown?
In the end, Sakkari defeated the 17th seed Lebakina 7-5, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals in three consecutive stops, continuing to set a new personal IW best record. Sakkari has reached at least semi-finals in all three of her recent races, with Indian Wells having finished second in St. Petersburg and the final four in Doha. So far in the 2021 season, the Greeks have a record of 10 wins and 1 loss in the quarter-finals, with the last eight games winning all. With eight-in-four already fairly stable, can she make a further breakthrough in the competition?
In the following semi-finals, Halep vs. Svatek, Bardoza vs. Sakkari, who will advance to the final?
In addition, in the women's doubles semifinals, the Chinese golden flower combination Xu Yipan / Yang Zhaoxuan defeated Konefernandez 7-5, 6-1, following the same level of Dubai last year to reach the tour final again. This is the sixth WTA1000 doubles final of Xu's career, and she will be attacking her 11th individual doubles title. Yang Zhaoxuan is reaching the WTA 1000 level doubles final for the third time, and she will attack the fifth doubles crown.
In another women's doubles semi-final, No. 7 seeds Mohammed and Shibahara Eicho narrowly defeated No. 5 seeds Dabraowski and Olmos 7-6 (6), 3-6, 10-5. For Shibahara, this is her second WTA 1000 doubles final, and she won the cup with compatriot Shuko Aoyama in Miami last year. This is the first time that a Japanese girl has reached a doubles title this year, and her career record in the WTA doubles final is 8 wins and 2 losses. For Mohammed, it was the first time in her career that she had reached the WTA 1000 doubles final. American partner Pegula won the Melbourne race earlier this year, and her career record in the WTA doubles final was seven wins.
After scoring into the WTA1000 Indian Wells championship battle, Xu Yipan and Yang Zhaoxuan reviewed their performances and also talked about the next final: "We have been cooperating for a long time, usually training and discussing together, and we will also watch the opponent's video before the game. No matter what the situation, when we are ahead, behind or nervous, we all have a point and a tactic that we focus on, and we will follow that rhythm regardless of whether we win or lose. "I look forward to the Chinese girl being able to lift the trophy of the final champion, come on!"