INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Madison Keys prolonged her profitable streak to 16 matches, reaching the BNP Paribas Open semifinals with a 6-1, 6-1 wipeout of wild-card entry Belinda Bencic on Thursday.
Keys, the Australian Open champion and the No. 5 seed at Indian Wells, wanted simply 65 minutes to arrange a gathering with top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-2, 6-3 later Thursday. Keys beat Sabalenka in three units in January at Melbourne Park, denying Sabalenka a 3rd consecutive title.
Bencic, a 28-year-old from Switzerland, was coming off an upset of No. 4 seed Coco Gauff within the fourth spherical, however she by no means had an opportunity towards Keys.
Iga Swiatek reached the semifinals at Indian Wells for the fourth consecutive time in her bid to be the primary lady to win the match 3 times. The No. 2 seed from Poland beat eighth-seeded Qinwen Zheng of China 6-3, 6-3 in a rematch of a Paris Olympics semifinal from final summer time received by Zheng.
Swiatek, the defending champion, has a 10-match profitable streak within the California desert. The five-time Grand Slam champion additionally received the occasion in 2022. Zheng ended Swiatek’s 25-match profitable streak on the Olympics final 12 months.
Swiatek transformed all 5 of her break factors, however Zheng broke twice on her technique to profitable six video games, matching the entire Swiatek had dropped within the match coming into the match.
On the lads’s aspect, Daniil Medvedev reached the Indian Wells semifinals for the third consecutive 12 months, incomes a good 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7) victory over 20-year-old Frenchman Arthur Fils.
The 29-year-old Russian, seeded fifth, wanted two hours and 25 minutes to maintain alive a bid for a 3rd journey to the ultimate of the occasion. That included a short delay within the third set when gusty winds blew particles all around the stadium.
Ben Shelton, at 22 the youngest American man to succeed in the quarterfinals at Indian Wells since 2004, could not go additional. Jack Draper of England moved on to the semifinals with a 6-4, 7-5 victory.
Mirra Andreeva superior to the ladies’s semifinals with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Elina Svitolina. Holger Rune moved on to his first Indian Wells semifinal by rallying for a 5-7, 6-0, 6-3 win over Tallon Griekspoor.
The Related Press contributed to this report.