It will be a real shock. Coco Gauff (4th in the world) and Aryna Sabalenka (2nd) will meet in the semi-final of the Wuhan tournament after having respectively beaten Magda Linette (6-0, 6-4) and Magdalena Frech (6-2, 6-2). The semi-final will be a confrontation between two players in form: Sabalenka won two majors this year (Australian Open and US Open) and Coco Gauff, titled last week in Beijing and who is on a series of nine consecutive victories .
The two players have already faced each other seven times on the WTA circuit, and the American leads in their confrontations 4 victories to 3. Impressive in service, Coco Gauff (20 years old), has never lost her challenge in the match Friday against the Polish Magda Linette. She then managed to break it to take the advantage.
Aryna Sabalenka, double title holder in Wuhan, had a much calmer quarter-final than her previous round against Kazhake of Russian origin Yulia Putintseva who had dominated her in a one-sided first set, 6-1 . Against the Polish Magdalena Frech, Sabalenka unfolded, using her opponent with heavy strikes to secure her fifteenth victory in this Wuhan tournament.
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