semi final
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Mertens asks Belgians to cheer her on in Beijing, Jean-Pol is still looking for a flight
Elise Mertens plays Zheng Qinwen on Saturday at 1 pm in the Beijing Masters 1000 semi-final, after beating Iga Swiatek 7-6, 6-3. Before the match, she asked “all Belgians” to come and…
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Loïs Boisson into the Adana semi-final, Jean-Pol saw it coming from very far away
Loïs Boisson, world number 273 and a lucky loser, beat Anna Blinkova 6-0, 6-1 in 1h10 in the quarter-finals of the Adana WTA 125. According to We Love Tennis, it is her…
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Pegula admits she hits too hard when she’s angry, the club player relates
Jessica Pegula lost to Aryna Sabalenka in the US Open semi-finals, her third straight defeat by the Belarusian at that tournament. She said anger helps Sabalenka, while it only makes her own…
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Shelton got two days between matches, the C30.4 gets twenty minutes
Ben Shelton beat Frances Tiafoe 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 to reach his first Grand Slam final. He put the emphasis on the two days between that semi-final and his quarter-final against Carlos…
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7-6 (7) and 7-6 (6): our intern asks what the numbers in brackets are doing
Alexander Zverev beat Karen Khachanov 6-3, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (6) to reach the US Open final. Two of the three sets were settled in a tie-break.
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Tiafoe wants crowds to talk and move, Maxime hunts for who invented the silence
Ahead of his US Open semi-final against Ben Shelton on Friday, Frances Tiafoe asked that tennis let spectators talk, move and take part, pointing to basketball and football as examples.
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Rybakina beats Gauff and will be world No. 1, Jean-Pol swears he called it in January
Elena Rybakina reached her first US Open final on Thursday, beating Coco Gauff 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. The Kazakh player will become world number one.