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Elena Rybakina he beat Victoria Azarenka and achieved her second final in a row in Miami and the fourth at the start of 2024. The number 4 seed got the better of the Belarusian player who was overcome after a long battle with a score of 6-4 0-6 7-6, winning the final tie break for seven points to two.
Rybakina will face in Saturday’s final the American Danielle Collins, unseeded player who eliminated the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova. Rybakina in the first set she broke her opponent’s serve first to take a 4-3 lead.
An advantage that Azarenka was never able to recover. After closing the first set 6-4, Rybakina lost seven games in a row. Second set dominated 6-0 by Azarenka who also went up 1-0 in the third.
Here Rybakina she interrupted her opponent’s seven-game streak by holding serve and making it 1-1. The Kazakh player went ahead by a break in the third set and served for the match at 5-4.
Azarenka resolutely refused defeat and as a great fighter, she achieved the counterbreak and took a 5-5 lead. The epilogue was at the tie break and here Rybakina put in place that something more necessary to win the match.
3-0 immediately and then closure 7-2 after 2 and a half hours of play.
In the second semi-final of the WTA in Miami, victory was won by the American Danielle Collins
In the second semi-final they faced the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova and the American Danielle Collins.
Danielle Collins clearly won with a score of 6-3 6-2. The American player, born in 1993, reached the first WTA 1000 final of her career in this world. In an hour and 15 minutes, Alexandrova’s splendid journey ended after eliminating world number 1 Iga Swiatek and Jessica Pegula.
Collins reaches the final ranked number 53 in the world. Meanwhile, they will also be busy in today’s evening session Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini who will try to qualify for the women’s doubles final.
They will be on the field after the second men’s semifinal at around 1.30 against the US pair of Sofia Kenin and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
