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Yastremska won 18 of 35 second-serve points (51.4 percent),
broke her opponent's serve five times in 10 tries and saved four
of eight break points in the back-and-forth match. The
21-year-old led the second set 4-2, fell behind 5-4, then won
the next two games before dominating the tiebreaker.
"With everything I've been through, I have to push myself and
fight to the end," Yastremska, who had 22 winners, said in her
post-match interview. "That's what I was thinking about in the
moments it was pretty tight, or when I felt really tired or a
bit stressed. ... Every match I play here is nothing to lose.
I'm giving everything I have."
In the semifinals, Yastremska will face No. 2 seed Sorana
Cirstea of Romania, the highest seed remaining. Cirstea handled
Anna Bondar of Hungary 6-3, 6-3 in the quarters.
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia rallied to upset No. 7 seed Alison
Van Uytvanck of Belgium 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, and will meet Chinese
eighth seed Shuai Zhang, who advanced when opponent Vitalia
Diatchenko retired early in the first set.
Abierto GNP Seguros
Fifth-seeded Camila Osorio of Colombia shook off a slow start to
upset top-seeded Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) in
the quarterfinals at Monterrey, Mexico.
Svitolina was unable to close out the match after leading 4-1
with two service breaks in the third set. Osorio advances to a
semifinal matchup against sixth-seeded Nuria Parrizas Diaz, who
ousted fourth-seeded Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 in an
all-Spanish showdown.
On the other side of the bracket, Beatriz Haddad Maia nipped the
Czech Republic's Marie Bouzkova 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7), with the
Brazilian saving three match points before prevailing. Haddad
Maia's semifinal foe will be second-seeded Leylah Fernandez of
Canada, who topped China's Qiang Wang 7-6 (4), 6-4 in a
late-night match.
--Field Level Media
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