Caroline Wozniacki can slowly start to catch a glimpse of a possible triumph at the China Open.
The reigning champion played out Friday on to the semifinals with a win over Russian Daria Kasatkina, who was defeated 6-3, 7-6.
the Opponent in Saturday’s semi-final will be either japanese Naomi Osaka or Bianca Andreescu from Canada.
The 22-year-old Kasatkina broke through in 2018, but has this season struggled to live up to the high expectations.
It was only in periods of time, to the young freshman showed class against Wozniacki.
None of the two players got at any time server to work particularly well, and it gave a wide range of servegennembrud in the fight. The first set featured all five of its kind.
Wozniacki was in the first set of broken his serve twice and was lagging behind in both the 1-2 and 2-3 before Kasatkina hit a bad streak, where the Russian could not get his games to work.
It meant Wozniacki took four batches in a row and thus she opened the first set.
the Second set was even more dramatic, since a transformed Kasatkina quickly brought himself in front 3-0. Wozniacki had struggled out of the problems and reduced to 2-3.
It had manifestly a price for the dane, who saw themselves obliged to call a medical timeout to get dealt his elbow.
After six-seven-minute treatment equalized Wozniacki to 3-3, before the Russian again retreated from, only to see Wozniacki’s big at 6-6 and force the set into a tiebreak.
In tiebreaken brought the dane ahead with 6-1, but it was still nervously, as she missed the first four matchbolde, before she won the tiebreaken 7-5.
In the semifinals Saturday waiting so the winner of the showdown between Naomi Osaka or Bianca Andreescu, who recently won the US Open. Osaka won the grand slam tournament in New York last year.
Wozniacki has beaten Birmingham twice in two matches, and lost both of his two meetings with the Andreescu.
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