Maja Chwalińska in the semi-finals in Wuhan! Amazing fight with Sakkari

Chwalińska better than Sakkari in the quarterfinals in Wuhan

It was the third fight between Maja Chwalińska and Maria Sakkari in her career and the second victory. The Pole defeated the Greek, among others. on the way to the final of this year's Roland Garros.

In the quarterfinals in Wuhan, Chwalińska played an excellent first set, defeating Sakkari 6-0. The Greek was not discouraged by this fact and won the second game 6:3.

The third set was a murderous game-by-game battle, won by the Pole 7:5, with a winning break at the end.

The winner will face the better of the pair Iga Świątek - Ann Li in the semi-final. The Pole will play against the American today at 1 p.m.

Next week, Chwalińska will be in the top 20 of the world list for the first time. For now, in the so-called live ranking is 19th.

Ostapenko and Kartal in the semi-finals in Wuhan

On Thursday morning it turned out that the Latvian Jelena Ostapenko and the British Sonay Kartal, 170th in the world ranking, would face each other in the first semi-final in Wuhan.

Ostapenko, who has been working with coach Piotr Sierzputowski for some time, eliminated the 11th seeded Russian Diana Sznajder, winning 7:6 (8-6), 6:1.

A much bigger surprise came from 24-year-old Kartal, who after over two hours of play defeated the fifth seeded Ukrainian Elina Svitolina 6:2, 2:6, 6:4.