Indian Wells (USA) (EFE) the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the American Frances Tiafoe.
Champion of the last edition of the Australian Open, Sabalenka surpassed Coco Gauff, the last hope of the USA in the women’s competition, defeating her by a final 6-4, 6-0 in one hour and 5 minutes.
His rival in the semifinals will be Sakkari, who overcame the Czech Petra Kvitova 4-6, 7-5, 6-1 in two hours and 46 minutes.
The Greek was a finalist in the Californian desert tournament last year, where she lost in the title match against the number one in the ranking, the Polish Iga Swiatek.
This Thursday the other two quarterfinal matches will be played, which will pit the aforementioned Swiatek against the Romanian Sorana Cirstea and the Czech Karolina Muchova against the Kazakh Elena Rybakina.
As for the men’s team, the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich closed his wonderful participation in Indian Wells with a defeat against Medvedev, who is going through a fantastic moment and who scored the match 6-3 and 7-5 in one hour and 46 minutes.
The Russian has won his last three tournaments in a row (Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai) and is on a phenomenal 18-match winning streak.
Davidovich, however, takes a great achievement from Indian Wells: his rise to 25th place in the world ranking, the best record so far of his career.
Medvedev will play the pass to the Indian Wells final against Tiafoe, who beat the British Cameron Norrie -champion of this Masters 1000 in 2021- by a double 6-4 in one hour and 40 minutes.
Carlos Alcaraz, the last Spaniard to continue in Indian Wells, will face off on Thursday in the quarterfinals with the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, a particularly tough rival for the Murcian as he has beaten him the three times they have met on the track so far.
Finally, the American Taylor Fritz, current champion of Indian Wells, will face the Italian Jannik Sinner in the quarterfinals and from there will come the hypothetical rival of Alcaraz.