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MADRID :Defending champion Carlos Alcaraz celebrated his 20th birthday by storming into the Madrid Open final with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Borna Coric on Friday to stay on track for his fourth title of the season.
Iga Swiatek hammered Veronika Kudermetova to set up a Madrid Open final showdown with Aryna Sabalenka. Swiatek has been in ominous form this week and she continued that against Kudermetova, controlling the encounter from the outset and setting up an appealing final against world No. 2 Sabalenka.
Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden came back from a set down to beat Santiago Gonzalez and Edouard Roger-Vasselin and reach the men's doubles final at the Madrid Open. The 43-year-old Bopanna and Ebden, 35, defeated eighth seeds Gonzalez and Roger-Vasselin 5-7 7-6(3) 10-4 to reach their second ATP Masters 1000 final of the season.
Is the Kremlin installing a climate of fear ahead of an announced spring counter-offensive? Or is it a deliberate plan to keep Russian public opinion on edge and squarely behind a leader who frames this not as an unprovoked invasion of a neighbouring state, but as an all-out war by the West, hell-bent on bringing Russia to its knees?
Aryna Sabalenka gave herself an early birthday gift by easing into the Madrid Open final for the second time in three years on Thursday and then plotted revenge on world number one Iga Swiatek. The world number two turns 25 on Friday and the Belarusian celebrated in style by breezing past Greek world number nine Maria Sakkari, 6-4, 6-1. Sabalenka, the 2021 champion in Madrid, will face Swiatek in Saturday's championship match after the French and US Open winner swept aside 13th-ranked Veronika Kudermetova 6-1, 6-1.
MADRID: Jan-Lennard Struff thought he was done at the Madrid Open when he lost to Aslan Karatsev in the final round of qualifying last week.
Stefanos Tsitsipas was beaten at the Madrid Open as lucky loser Jan-Lennard Struff turned in a sensational display to win in three sets 7-6 5-7 6-3. Struff will take on Aslan Karatsev in the semi-finals, after the Russian had earlier defeated Zhizhen Zhang. Ad In a remarkable twist of fate, Struff will face Karatsev for the second time in the tournament, after the pair met in qualifying, with Karatsev winning in straight sets.
MADRID: World number two Aryna Sabalenka brushed past Maria Sakkari 6-4 6-1 in the semi-finals of the Madrid Open on Thursday to set up a potential second straight final showdown with top ranked Iga Swiatek.