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They'll face each other in the semifinals later
this week. The quarterfinals conclude Wednesday when No. 4 Elena
Rybakina and Yulia Putintseva meet in an all-Kazakh clash and
No. 2 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus battles Russian teenager Mirra
Andreeva.
Swiatek squandered a 4-1 lead in the first set and lost five
straight games. She won only 50 percent of her first-serve
points in that set while letting Haddad Maia save six of seven
break points.
"I needed to for sure stick to the tactics, because in the first
set I started making too many mistakes," Swiatek said. "I
started playing too fast. "I just needed to really get back to
basics and what I wanted to play today. It took me a while,
longer than usual, but I'm glad that it happened after the set
anyway."
Swiatek's second-set domination included 12 of 13 total service
points and 18 of 29 return points. She stretched her winning
streak to eight games in a row with her 2-0 start in the third
set.
This will mark Swiatek's fifth semifinal of the young season.
She made the Madrid final a season ago, where she lost to
Sabalenka.
Keys upset No. 3 Coco Gauff on Monday to arrange her match with
Jabeur. The Tunisian cruised through the first set and went up
2-0 in the second set before Keys began to turn things around.
She drew level at 2-2 and both players held serve until Keys
dominated the 12th game and won on her second set point.
"The key was to get a game," Keys cracked post-match. "Once I
did that, I feel like I finally settled in and relaxed a little
bit. Allowed myself to play some good tennis."
Once ranked as high as No. 7 in the world, Keys has reached the
final of a WTA 1000 event just three times. Her only title came
in Cincinnati in 2019.
--Field Level Media
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