TOKYO — Katie Boulter has overcome a collection of mediocre outcomes on the WTA Tour’s Asian swing to advance to the Pan Pacific Open semifinals with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Bianca Andreescu on Friday.
The 28-year-old British participant misplaced in latest weeks within the first spherical at Wuhan and within the second spherical to Coco Gauff on the China Open. However she dominated Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion who beat Serena Williams in straight units in that remaining, on Friday within the first of 4 quarterfinals in Tokyo.
Boulter will play one other Grand Slam singles champion, 2020 Australian Open winner Sofia Kenin, within the semifinals on Saturday. Kenin beat fifth-seeded Daria Kasatkina 6-3, 6-4.
Later, No. 1 seed and Paris Olympic gold medalist Zheng Qinwen beat eighth-seeded Leylah Fernandez 6-0, 1-6, 6-3. Within the semifinals, Zheng will play Diana Shnaider, who superior in a walkover when Sayaka Ishii was not in a position to take the courtroom resulting from an undisclosed sickness or damage.
In 2022, a 19-year-old Zheng reached the primary WTA remaining of her profession in Tokyo, overwhelmed by Liudmila Samsonova within the title match. Two years later, she’s the reigning Olympic champion and was coming off a run to the Wuhan remaining two weeks in the past that sealed her qualification for the WTA Finals in Riyadh subsequent month.
