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"It's just always staying in the fight," Barty
said. "Always staying in the hunt and never letting it slide
away. That certainly doesn't guarantee results, doesn't
guarantee success. It guarantees you give yourself the best
chance to do what you do and to figure it out and to find your
way."
Barty will face Paula Badosa in the semifinals. The Spaniard
upended No. 8 seed Belinda Bencic 6-4, 7-5 in one hour, 49
minutes. Bencic committed 29 unforced errors in losing to Badosa
for the second consecutive time.
"I have to be honest, I was very nervous today," Badosa said.
"Because sometimes these matches are a little bit tricky when
you played her two, three weeks ago and you think in your head
that you have that opportunity to make a semifinals. I was quite
nervous, but I'm quite happy that I could control all the nerves
and I could play my game quite good."
Fifth-seeded Aryna Sabalenka advanced to the semis after Elise
Mertens retired in the second trailing the Belarusian 4-0.
Sabalenka took the first set 6-1.
Sabalenka will play Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, a 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2)
winner over Karolina Muchova of Czech Republic. The Russian
needed nearly two hours to advance.
L'Open 35 de Saint-Malo
Seventh-seeded Nina Stojanovic fell to Italian Jasmine Paolini
4-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the Round of 16 at Saint-Malo, France.
Stojanovic was broken six of nine times in the loss.
In other action, Aliona Bolsova came back from a set down to
defeat Oceane Dodin of France 5-7, 7-5, 7-5 in two hours, 39
minutes. No. 6 seed Arantxa Rus fell to France's Harmony Tan
6-4, 6-2. Fifth-seeded Viktorija Golubic defeated Greet Mennen
of Belgium 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (2). Slovakia's Anna Karolina
Schmiedlova downed Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine 6-3, 5-7, 6-4.
--Field Level Media
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