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 (WTA 249), better known by her maiden name (Gavrilova), in the quarter-finals of this WTA 1000 tournament.
The Olympic champion, who remained on 7 consecutive failures in the quarter-finals since her coronation in Tokyo, 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, Bencic 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, the St-Galloise has so far mastered her subject perfectly, conceding only 17 games in her first 4 matches. She was then already leading 6-1 4-0, after dismissing the first 7 break points she had faced.
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