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Keys, the eighth seed, emerged with a 7-6 (6),
4-6, 6-2 victory Friday over top-seeded Stephens in an
all-American quarterfinal at the Volvo Car Open in Charleston,
S.C. It was Keys' first win in four career meetings with
Stephens.
Keys advances to a semifinal matchup with Puerto Rico's Monica
Puig, who routed 11th-seeded American Danielle Collins 6-3, 6-2
on the clay.
The other semifinal will feature fifth-seeded Dane Caroline
Wozniacki and 16th-seeded Croatian Petra Martic. Wozniacki
cruised past 15th-seeded Maria Sakkari of Greece 6-2, 6-2, and
Martic topped ninth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-3,
6-4.
Abierto GNP Segueros
Second-seeded Garbine Muguruza of Spain advanced to the
semifinals at Monterrey, Mexico, beating seventh-seeded Kristina
Mladenovic of France 6-1, 7-6 (5) in a match that featured an
unusual set.
Mladenovic lost each of her final three service games in the
first set, and then Muguruza lost her serving touch in the
second set, too. The second set featured eight service breaks,
and a whopping 21 break points, before Muguruza ultimately won
in a tiebreaker.
Muguruza's semifinal opponent will be eighth-seeded Slovakian
Magdalena Rybarikova, who beat American Sachia Vickery 6-4, 6-4.
In the other two quarterfinal matches Friday night, top-seeded
Angelique Kerber of Germany dispatched No. 6 Kirsten Flipkens of
Belgium 6-2, 6-4, and fifth-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus
downed No. 3 Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-0, 6-4.
Azarenka is 7-1 against Kerber, including five wins in straight
sets, but Saturday's meeting will be their first since 2016.
--Field Level Media
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