ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Third-seeded Sebastian Korda superior to the Adelaide Worldwide semifinals for the second 12 months in a row after beating Australian wild-card entry Christopher O’Connell 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday.
The 23-year-old American made final 12 months’s remaining in Adelaide, the place he misplaced to top-seeded Novak Djokovic in three units after blowing a championship level.
Sixth-seeded and 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko additionally superior to the semifinals with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Marta Kostyuk in Adelaide.
“It was a troublesome match, after all, however lastly I gained in two units, I managed it,” Ostapenko mentioned on court docket. “I really feel like I used to be placing the ball effectively as we speak. Even within the first set when it was 5-2 to 5-5, I nonetheless was enjoying my sport, after which on the finish I discovered it. Simply glad to be by means of.”
Daria Kasatkina moved into the semifinals with out having to hit a ball after her quarterfinal opponent, Laura Siegemund, withdrew from their match with an undisclosed sickness or damage. No. 15-ranked Kasatkina is one win away from repeating her finals look on the second of final 12 months’s two Adelaide occasions — the second was held in the course of the second week of the Australian Open.
Kasatkina will play the winner of the later quarterfinal between Jessica Pegula and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.
Each top-seeded gamers have been in quarterfinal motion later within the ATP-WTA event at Adelaide. American Tommy Paul performed Britain’s Jack Draper and Elena Rybakina, final 12 months’s Australian Open finalist and winner of the Brisbane Worldwide on Sunday, took on Ekaterina Alexandrova.
Ostapenko will face the winner of the Rybakina-Alexandrova match within the semifinals.
MEHRTENS INTO SEMIS AT HOBART
High-seeded Elise Mehrtens superior to the semifinals of the Hobart Worldwide with a 7-5, 6-0 win over Arantxa Rus. Mehrtens is trying to win her third Hobart title — the Belgian participant gained in Hobart in 2017 and 2018.
In one other quarterfinal, Emma Navarro beat Viktoriya Tomova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
