Simona Halep maintains No.1 spot in world tennis rankings
Tennis | July 23, 2018 22:58 ISTGermany's Angelique Kerber kept world No.4, after having claimed the spot a week earlier thanks to her first-ever Wimbledon title victory.
Germany's Angelique Kerber kept world No.4, after having claimed the spot a week earlier thanks to her first-ever Wimbledon title victory.
Angelique Kerber won her first Wimbledon championship by stopping Serena Williams' bid for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam title.
Williams will face 11th-seeded Angelique Kerber, on Saturday in a rematch of the 2016 final at Wimbledon.
Halep next faces third-seeded Garbine Muguruza, who thrashed Maria Sharapova 6-2, 6-1 in a matchup of past French Open champions.
Halep played in her third career Grand Slam final at the Australian Open in January, but has yet to secure a Grand Slam trophy.
Williams has never reached the final of the desert tournament and to do she'll have to get by 20-year-old Russian Daria Kasatkina who is yet to drop a set.
Muguruza defeated the fifth-seeded Frenchwoman in their second quarterfinal in two weeks, with the Spaniard also winning after being a set down in Doha.
Kerber did not face any break points during the clash of former world No. 1s that lasted one hour and 14 minutes.
Both women had their chances to put the match away in the 68-minute-long third set but it was the World No.1 who prevailed victorious to reach the finals.
Halep, a two-time French Open finalist, is aiming for another shot at a first Grand Slam title after quickly overcoming a slow start to beat sixth-seeded Karolina Pliskova 6-3 6-2 in the quarterfinals.
The defending Australian Open champion Angelina Kerber will clash with WTA No.1 Simona Halep in the semifinals which promises to be an absolute treat.
Five-time major winner Sharapova was back at the Australian Open for the first time since 2016, when a failed test for Meldonium led to a 15-month doping ban.
Djokovic tweaked his service motion while recovering from an injured right elbow, and used it to good effect in a 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 win over Donald Young.
Kerber, the 2016 Australian Open champion, won four consecutive singles matches at the Hopman Cup, followed by five in Sydney International.
Angelique Kerber won all four singles at the Hopman Cup and now all four in Sydney en route to the final.
Kerber, who began last year at the top of the rankings before finishing at No. 22, won her seventh straight match of 2018, including four singles at the Hopman Cup last week.
Kerber, who dropped to No.22 following a poor 2017 season, needed to save two match points before beating Lucie Safarova in three sets on Monday.
US Open champion Sloane Stephens lost her first match of the year, beaten 6-3, 6-0 by Italian qualifier Camila Giorgi and is short of match practice ahead of the Australian Open which starts in Melbourne next week.
Pliskova, the 2016 runner-up at Flushing Meadows, is joined by four past U.S. Open champions - Angelique Kerber, Venus Williams, Sam Stosur and Svetlana Kuznetsova.
World No.1 Angelique Kerber advanced to the second round at Wimbledon defeating American Irina Falconi 6-4, 6-4; Muguruza passes Alexandrova's test.
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