Athletistic/Tennis. On June 8, the Roland Garros semi-final will take place, in which Karolina Muchova and Arina Sobolenko will play. Who will be the strongest ?
A native of Minsk is in great shape. Sobolenko has played five matches at Roland Garros and won only one in a set thanks to a tie-break. Additionally, Arina has won five out of five semi-final matches this season. Of the three previous “WGs”, Arina Sobolenko completed her performance in the third round. Now she has reached the semis without dropping a single set along the way. Sobolenko became the first tennis player since Serena Williams to start the season with 12 straight Grand Slam wins.
Mukhova for the second time in her career will play in the semi-finals of TBSH. The previous one was two years ago at the Australian Open. The former 19th racket in the world was treated for a serious injury for six months, and after returning last season only reached the quarter-finals of the WTA 250 Series tournament. different. In particular, Mukhova entered the top eight of the “thousands” in Dubai and Indian Wells. On the one hand, Mukhova was lucky with the tournament support, but on the other hand, she had to defend her ambitions already at the beginning of the tournament course. In the first round, she beat the ninth racket in the world – Greek tennis player Maria Sakkari with the score 2:0 (7:6; 7:5), and in the third round, Carolina took revenge on the Romanian Irina Begu for the defeat in Madrid, beating her opponent 2:0 (6:3; 6:2). At Roland Garros, 189 of Muchova’s first 299 sets were accurate, she won 124 (65.61%).
Sobolenko is having the best season of his career. Thanks to the victories in Adelaide-1 and the subsequent TBSH – Australian Open, the Belarusian tennis player climbed to second place in the WTA rankings, repeating the best result of her career. Arina ended the tough segment by reaching the final in Indian Wells. On the pitch, Sobolenko plays with more confidence. In Stuttgart she reached the final, in which she lost to Iga Swiatek with the score 0:2 (3:6; 4:6), but already in Madrid the Belarusian athlete took revenge for the polka – 2:1 (6:3; 3:6; 6:3). At Roland Garros, Arina confidently advanced to the semi-finals, giving her rivals only 34 matches.
In the other semi-final, world number 1 Iga Sventek will face Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia.
Sventek demolishes everyone in his time in Paris, and only Arina Sobolenko can stop him from winning the trophy. Even last year’s runner-up Corey Gauff only slightly improved her result in the confrontation with the Pole – she won not four matches, as in 2022, but six.
Haddad Maia has made three comebacks in the last three matches and played four straight three-setters. Of course, after a mighty battle with Zhaber, a day off would not interfere with it, but the organizers did not provide for this. This means that the Brazilian will have to play against the strongest tennis player on the planet with an almost empty tank. In this case, she frankly has nothing to rely on. Most likely, in the last game of Roland Garros -2023, Arina Sobolenko and Iga Shventek will fight.
Recall that Swiatek won the French Open in 2022.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
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