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Spaniard Muguruza closed out the match with an
ace - her 13th in the contest and her highest tally in a match
in four years - and reached her first semi-final since
successfully defending the Monterrey Open title in April.
The sixth seed, ranked 35 in the world, also won three
consecutive matches for the first time since last year's French
Open as she looks to recapture the form that catapulted her to
the world number one in 2017.
"I was expecting a very tough match and at the end it was,"
Muguruza said after ending a seven-match winning streak for
Diyas.
"I think she came out in the second set playing much better. I
just kept competing and I'm happy with these kind of victories."
Muguruza will next face fifth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova. The
Russian knocked out China's last hope, Wang Qiang, 3-6 6-4 6-3.
In a topsy-turvy match that lasted more than two hours, Wang
broke her opponent six times but Alexandrova responded with
seven service breaks of her own to reach the final four.
Alexandrova lost her only previous meeting with Muguruza,
suffering a Wimbledon first-round defeat in 2017 as Muguruza
began her run to the title that year.
"We played once, but it was a few years ago," Alexandrova said.
"I lost, and I hope I can do better tomorrow."
(Reporting by Rohith Nair and Hardik Vyas in Bengaluru; Editing
by David Goodman)
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