Beijing time on April 1: This year's Miami Open ended the competition for the ninth competition at noon Beijing time today. In today's match, the men's singles top seed Russian player Medvedev lost to defending champions Poland's Hulkac and lost the opportunity to return to the world number one, and the promoted Hulkac will compete with Spanish teenager Alcaraz for a final spot, and Alcaraz has become the youngest player to unlock the Sunshine doubles back-to-back final four. In the women's singles, after the two semi-finals of the tournament, Polish player Sviatek, who reached the top of the world, and Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka defeated their opponents to qualify for the final. Let's take a look at the latest news from the Miami Open.
Today is the ninth matchday of this year's Miami Open, and according to the schedule, there will be two quarter-finals in the men's singles upper half and two semi-finals in the women's singles. The first match on Centre Court was played by the tournament's top seed, Russian player Medvedev, against defending champions 8th seed Poland's Hulkac, the two sides have met three times before Medvedev 2 wins and 1 loss to prevail, and all parties before the game are also optimistic about Medvedev's victory. The game began at 1:00 a.m. Beijing time today, after the start of the game Hulkac took the lead in breaking, but Medvedev did not give up the break to equalize the score in the first set of the score The two sides need to win by grabbing seven points, and hulkach played better in the seventh to win the game with 9-7. After entering the second set, Hulkac continued the good form of the first set, while Medvedev was broke twice to lose another set 3-6 and lost the game to the final four. In this way, Medvedev also missed the opportunity to return to the world number one after this game, and he is only 10 points behind djokovic, who is no. 1 in the world number one, in the standings.
Today's second men's singles quarterfinal took place between the 14th seed Spanish player Alcaraz and Serbian Kemanovic, the first time the two had met in an official match, and all parties were unanimously optimistic that Alcaraz would win easily before the match. The match began at 7:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning, and after the game began, the two sides fell into a battle, and finally after 2 hours and 23 minutes of competition, Alcaraz defeated Kemanovic with a score of 6-7 (5)/6-3/7-6 (5) to get the last four tickets to the back-to-back to reach the final four of the Sunshine Double. Alcaraz became the youngest player to complete this achievement, at the age of 18 years and ten months, and the next he included Correll, Nadal, Djokovic, Murray and Agassi, all from 19 years and 7 months to 19 years and 10 months, and Alcaraz could expect the future.
Today there were also two women's singles semi-finals, the first semi-final between the 22nd seed of the tournament, Switzerland's Bencic, and the four-time Grand Slam champion Japanese player Naomi Osaka, the two have previously met Bencic 3 wins and 1 loss to dominate, the most recent occurred in the fourth round of the 2019 US Open Bencic lost two straight sets to win, before the game all parties are still optimistic that Osaka Naomi can win. The match began at 3:30 a.m. Beijing time today, and after the match began, Bencic continued his previous strength against Naomi Osaka to win the first set 6-4. After entering the second set, Naomi Osaka adjusted her competitive status to win two consecutive sets 6-3, 6-4 to complete the reversal and qualify for the final. Naomi Osaka is currently ranked 77th, making her the lowest-ranked player in Miami's history to reach the women's singles final. The previous record was 38th place set by Christers in 2005, when Christers won the championship. Naomi Osaka is also the second Asian player to reach the women's singles final after Li Na in 2014, and the last Japanese player to advance to the final was Ida Gongzi in 1995, when she lost to Graf.
The second women's singles semifinal was played between 16th seedEd American Pegula and No. 2 seed Sweiatke, who will reach the top of the world next week, and the two had a meeting in Washington 2019 when Pegula won in three sets, and all parties were optimistic about Sweiatke's easy victory before the game. The match began at 10:00 a.m. Beijing time this morning, and the main referee of the match was Zhang Juan, a gold medal referee from the mainland. After the start of the game, Sviatek continued the strength of the previous game and took the lead 6-2 to win the first set. After entering the second set, Pegura improved her competitive form to take the lead in the break to take a 4-2 lead, and then Sviatek chased the set to 5-4 in three consecutive sets to win the set, and Pegula saved two match points to break to bring the set to 5-5. Sviatek was unaffected, qualifying for the final in two consecutive sets at 7-5 in the second set. Sviatek thus became the ninth woman in history to reach the Sunshine Doubles Women's Singles Finals back-to-back, the last being achieved by Azarenka in 2016. Sviatek is also the fifth player since Seles, Serena Williams, Singis and Sharapova to achieve this feat before the age of 21. Previously, only Graf, Christers and Azarenka could win the championship back-to-back. I believe that her final with Naomi Osaka will be very exciting.
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