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Alexandrova saved five of seven break points
and won seven consecutive games during one stretch, improving to
3-1 against Rybakina. Her semifinal foe will be No. 6 Jelena
Ostapenko of Latvia, a 7-5, 6-3 winner against Ukraine's Marta
Kostyuk.
The other semifinal pits No. 2 Jessica Pegula and unseeded
Russian Daria Kasatkina. Pegula rallied for a 6-7 (1), 7-5, 6-4
win against Russia's Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Kasatkina
advanced in a walkover after Laura Siegemund of Germany withdrew
before the match.
Hobart International
Top seed Elise Mertens of Belgium moved into the semifinals in
Hobart, Australia, with a 7-5, 6-0 defeat of Arantxa Rus of the
Netherlands.
Mertens saved six of seven break points and won the final eight
games of the match. Her semifinal opponent will be unseeded
Australian Daria Saville, a 3-6, 6-1 6-4 winner over No. 3 seed
Lin Zhu of China.
Second-seeded Emma Navarro and China's Yue Yuan will meet in the
other semi. Navarro overcame a slow start in a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2
victory against Bulgaria's Viktoriya Tomova, and Yuan held off
Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva 7-5, 7-6 (4).
--Field Level Media
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