Aryna Sabalenka has placed on a serving masterclass to crush American Coco Gauff 6-4 6-0 and attain the semi-finals of the WTA occasion at Indian Wells.
The Australian Open champion by no means confronted a break level on Wednesday and used her booming and correct serve to dispatch 19-year-old Gauff.
Sabalenka seems to have put her previous struggles with double faults firmly behind her, not committing a single one in opposition to Gauff, whereas pounding down 5 aces and profitable 87 per cent of her first serves.
Gauff rapidly fell 2-0 down within the first set and was unable to match the Belarusian’s stage regardless of enjoying effectively.
Second seed Sabalenka saved her foot on the fuel to dominate the second set regardless of the southern California crowd’s makes an attempt to induce on the sixth-seeded native.
“I knew you guys wanted to send me home,” a smiling Sabalenka advised the gang in an on-court interview.
“Thank you everyone for coming and supporting us, mostly her, but us. The atmosphere was unbelievable. I don’t want to leave. I want to stay here as long as I can.”
The hard-hitting Sabalenka will subsequent face both seventh-seeded Greek Maria Sakkari or Fifteenth-seeded Czech Petra Kvitova.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
