Madrid Open LIVE: Ruud facing Blockx in quarters, Andreeva vs Baptiste to follow
It’s girls’s semi-finals day in the Spanish capital, with Mirra Andreeva, Hailey Baptiste, Marta Kostyuk and Anastasia Potapova all trying to seal their place in the showpiece occasion. Meanwhile, on the lads’s aspect of the match, the remaining two quarter-finals happen.
10:00 CET – Good morning and welcome to our protection of at present’s tennis on the Madrid Open, as the ladies’s semi-finals take middle stage, whereas the remaining two males’s quarter-finals additionally happen.
The first girls’s semi-final sees world quantity eight Mirra Andreeva come up in opposition to Hailey Baptistewith the American coming off the again of a sensational victory over Aryna Sabalenka in the final eight.
On the opposite aspect of the draw, Marta Kostyuk is concentrating on an eleventh straight clay-court triumph when she takes on fortunate loser Anastasia Potapovawith each girls chasing their biggest-ever finale.
Read an in-depth preview of both matches here.
Over on the lads’s aspect of the match, play will get began in a couple of hours at 13:00 CETas Norway’s Casper Ruud continues his title protection in opposition to gifted Belgian Alexander Blockx in the final eight.
Later on, the lads’s quarter-finals conclude with second seed Alexander Zverev taking up Flavio Cobolliwith the German trying to avenge his defeat to Cobolli in the Munich semi-finals a few weeks in the past.
Keep monitor of the complete males’s draw here and the complete girls’s draw here.
