Belinda Bencic (WTA 28) will play her first semi-final of the year in Miami. The St-Galloise won 6-1 6-2 ahead of Daria Saville (249), better known by her maiden name (Gavrilova), in the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament.
Belinda Bencic, who remained on 7 consecutive failures in the quarter-finals since her coronation at the Tokyo Olympics, took only 69 minutes to win.
Weakened at the start of the year by the Covid, which she had contracted in mid-December, beaten from the outset in Doha and Indian Wells in her 2 previous tournaments, the 25-year-old St-Welshwoman found the flame in Florida. . If we exclude the final phase of the Billie Jean King Cup, where she had taken Switzerland to the final, she had not won 3 matches in a row since the US Open in September.
In Miami, Bencic has so far mastered his subject perfectly, conceding only 17 games in his first 4 matches. She was then already leading 6-1 4-0, after dismissing the first 7 break points she had faced. Belinda Bencic will face Naomi Osaka in the semis. The Japanese downed Danielle Collins 6-2 6-1.
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