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Pegula saved six of seven break points and won
39 of her 49 first-service points (79.6 percent). The
fourth-ranked player in the world, Pegula is seeking her second
title in Washington after winning her maiden WTA title there in
2019.
Pegula will face Maria Sakkari in the semifinals after the
fourth-seeded Greek player won two matches on Friday. Sakkari
earned a 7-5, 6-2 second-round victory over Canadian Leylah
Fernandez in a match that was postponed Thursday night due to
rain, then got past seventh-seeded Madison Keys of the United
States 6-3, 6-3 in the quarterfinals.
No. 8 seed Liudmila Samsonova reached the semifinals with a 6-4,
6-2 win over Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine. Her next foe will be
third-seeded Coco Gauff of the United States, who routed
sixth-seeded Belinda Bencic of Switzerland 6-1, 6-2.
Livesport Prague Open
No. 4 seed Linda Noskova needed a mere 54 minutes to dispatch
Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-0, 6-2 and reach the
semifinals in her native Czech Republic.
Noskova is the final seeded player standing in the bracket. Next
up, she will face Germany's Tamara Korpatsch, who ousted No. 6
seed Alize Cornet of France 7-6 (3), 6-1.
The other semifinal match will pit Romania's Jaqueline Cristian
against Japan's Nao Hibino. Cristian outlasted Ukrainian eighth
seed Kateryna Baindl 6-4, 1-6, 6-2, and Hibino knocked out Czech
foe Tereza Martincova 6-1, 6-2 in just 69 minutes.
--Field Level Media
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