TOKYO — Katie Boulter has overcome a sequence 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 current weeks within the first spherical at Wuhan and within the second spherical to Coco Gauff on the China Open. However she dominated Andreescu, the previous U.S. Open champion who beat Serena Williams in straight units within the 2019 closing, 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 was scheduled to play eighth-seeded Leylah Fernandez in a quarterfinal, and Diana Shnaider performed Sayaka Ishii within the different.
In 2022, a 19-year-old Zheng reached the primary WTA closing of her profession in Tokyo, overwhelmed by Liudmila Samsonova within the title match. Two years on, she’s the reigning Olympic champion and was coming off a run to the Wuhan closing two weeks in the past that sealed her qualification for the WTA Finals in Riyadh subsequent month.