Indian Wells, California. , Frances Tiafoe beat 10th seed Cameron Norrie Reached the semi-finals of the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday 6-4, 6-4.
The 14th-seeded American ended the 2021 champion’s eight-match winning streak to earn his first semi-final berth in a Masters 1000 tournament.
“Very happy about today,” Tiafoe said on the court. “I’ve been playing really well all week. Keep it up.”
Tiafoe hit 22 winners and committed only nine unforced errors. He sealed the win, which was briefly interrupted by rain, by serving a love game.
Tiafoe said, “I played really fast, really close to the baseline and I was putting a lot of pressure on him.” “I didn’t allow him to rack up points and I was being very active with my feet, getting really aggressive.”
Tiafoe hasn’t dropped a set in four matches of the tournament. After this he will play number 5 Daniil Medvedevwho beat Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-3, 7-5.
Medvedev won his 18th consecutive match and improved to 23-2 this year. He injured his right ankle in the three-set victory alexander zverev one day before.
“It was getting worse when I got hot,” Medvedev said. “But I knew I was going to play.”
But his troubles were not over. In the sixth game of the second set, he fell on the court and cut his thumb. The cut was called off during a medical timeout.
Medvedev broke Davydovich Fokina’s serve before serving for the win and took a 6–5 lead. Medvedev won 12 of the last 14 points.
Women’s Side, No. 2 Aryan Sabalenka Won the last seven games of the match to beat the sixth seed Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-0 in the quarterfinals.
number 7 Maria Sakkari 15th seeded Petra Kvitova 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
Sabalenka improved to 16-1 this year, which included her Australian Open title. He said it took him four days to come off the high of winning his first major.
“Like straight after the title, we went back to the hotel and my whole team was drunk,” she said with a laugh. “I don’t know how many liters they drank that day. That was the most fun and memorable moment. Everyone was so stressed during that week, I think it was normal to drink a little. I didn’t.”
Gauff earned just nine return points and had no break points against Sabalenka.
Gough said, “He didn’t give me any free points and I think I was giving away free points too and wasn’t hitting the ball as deep as I should have.” “Especially when you’re playing with him, you have to hit the ball deep.”