SEOUL, South Korea — Beatriz Haddad Maia superior to the rain-delayed semifinals of the Korea Open with a 6-2, 6-1 win over Polina Kudermetova on Saturday.
Haddad Maia was the 2017 runner-up within the Seoul WTA 500-level match.
Persistent rain showers washed out all play Friday, forcing the quarterfinals and semifinals to be performed Saturday.
Kudermetova, 21, performed Haddad Maia on Centre Court docket on the similar time her sister Veronika Kudermetova, who’s 27 and ranked twenty fifth, was taking up Viktoriya Tomova on the Grandstand Court docket. The elder Kudermetova had a greater consequence for the household, with Veronika beating Tomova 7-5, 6-3.
Haddad Maia was scheduled to play Veronika Kudermetova within the first semifinal later Saturday with an opportunity to beat each Kudermetova sisters on the identical day.
In a later quarterfinal, top-seeded Daria Kasatkina superior when former US Open champion Emma Raducanu retired with an obvious left foot damage after dropping the primary set 6-1.
Kasatkina had not misplaced a set to Raducanu in two earlier conferences, together with a 6-2, 6-2 win within the Eastbourne grass-court quarterfinals three months in the past. Raducanu was bidding to achieve her first semifinal above WTA 250 degree since successful the 2021 US Open.
Within the different quarterfinal, fourth-seeded Diana Shnaider performed fifth-seeded Marta Kostyuk. The winner will play Kasatkina within the semifinals.