Follow usChina’s Zheng Qinwen reached the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open semi-finals after upsetting top seed Russian Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-2 in just 78 minutes.
Top 10 win number 3⃣ 🙌
Zheng Qinwen breezes past the No.1 seed Kasatkina, dropping only 3 games!#MubadalaAbuDhabiOpen pic.twitter.com/6UPWkHkrNF
— wta (@WTA) February 10, 2023
The 20-year-old recorded her third career Top 10 win, following her 2022 defeats of Ons Jabeur in Toronto and Paula Badosa in Tokyo.
The result puts Zheng into her third tour-level semifinal, and second at WTA 500 level following her run to the Tokyo final last September.
Number two seed Belinda Bencic of Switzerland advanced to the last four with a 7-6(5), 6-2 defeat of qualifier Shelby Rogers, her fifth in a row over the American.
Rogers dropped just four points through her first six service games, but after Bencic proved steadier in the tiebreak, the Swiss player took control.
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