Victoria Azarenka booked a semi-final spot at the Miami Open while Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz both marched into the quarter-finals
Azarenka reaches Miami semis as Sinner and Alcaraz march into last eightSinner and Alcaraz win in straight sets to make men’s quartersVictoria Azarenka kept her hopes of a fourth Miami Open title alive as she reached the semi-finals with a hard-earned victory over Yulia Putintseva. While in the men’s draw Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz both marched into the quarter-finals.
Putintseva hit back hard in the second, giving up a solitary game as she found her rhythm, but the momentum shifted when Azarenka salvaged a pair of break points at the start of the decider. After regaining control she did not take advantage of her first match point at 5-2 up, but made no mistake when the chance opened up again in her next service game.
Showing greater control than his Australian opponent, Sinner broke at the first time of asking in the second set and closed out the win in one hour 51 minutes. Sinner, runner-up here in 2021 and 2023, will meet 23-year-old Czech Tomas Machac, who defeated Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi 6-3, 6-3 to earn his first appearance in a Masters 1000 quarter-final.Photograph: Frey/TPN/Getty Images
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