Beijing time on March 17, WTA1000 Indian Wells Station, women's singles 1/4 final just ended a strong dialogue. The match is faced between the Grand Slam women's singles champion - Kazakhstan's popular superstar Lebakina, and former Top 20 member and Grand Slam women's singles semifinalist, Czech Mudhova.
After winning the first set with a tie-break, Lebakina was unexpectedly easily pulled back by her opponent in the second set, but fortunately Lebakina withstood the key moment and finally eliminated Mukhova 2:1, thus successfully advancing to the women's singles semifinals of the Crown Tournament.
3-set scores: 7/6, 2/6, 6/4.
With this victory, Lebakina achieved 2 major breakthroughs in her career:
First, she made national history by becoming the first Kazakh player to reach the semi-finals of the tournament.
Second, for the first time in his career, he reached the top four in the WTA1000 tournament and won a major victory.
Looking ahead to the women's singles semifinals, Lebakina will face the winner between Swiatek and Kostia.