![]() Wednesday's quarter-finals see top seed Serena Williams take on Germany's Sabine Lisicki while third-seed Romanian Simona Halep faces American Sloane Stephens. But then I got better and better from there," she said. "Karolina also started playing really well and I was a little lucky at the end of the first set. ![]() "I was playing really well at the start but I couldn't see the ball on my serve with the sun on one side and I was struggling," said Petkovic. Petkovic, the 2011 Miami semi-finalist, won the next five games and wrapped up the match in one hour, 16 minutes. Petkovic made a blistering start, going up 4-1 in the first set but the 23-year-old Pliskova powered her way back to 4-4 and then had three break points, all of which were saved. Towards the end just never found the happy medium between being aggressive and putting the ball in the court," she said. "I just made a little too many errors and I was going for it the whole match. Williams said she had struggled to find consistency. I started a bit nervous but even if you lose the first set you are still in the competition and I am happy with the way I came back," said Suarez Navarro. "It was a crazy match, crazy first two sets. The Spaniard won the last two games however to continue an impressive season that has seen her reach two other semi-finals and make the last eight at Indian Wells for the first time. The third set bucked the trend for one-sided exchanges until Suarez Navarro broke to go 5-4 up only for Venus to break back straight away. Nel corso della sua carriera, ha disputato undici finali WTA vincendo due titoli, tra cui il prestigioso Qatar Total Open 2016.Tra le altre, invece, vanta una finale disputata nellancora più prestigioso Miami Open nel 2015. ![]() Suddenly regaining her confidence Suarez Navarro won the first four games and went on to take the second set 6-1. Carla Suárez Navarro (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 3 settembre 1988) è unex tennista spagnola. Williams utterly dominated the first set, crushing the Spaniard 6-0 in less than half an hour but her opponent was able to regroup and battle back in impressive style. Petkovic booked her place in the last four after a 6-4 6-2 win over 14th seeded Czech Karolina Pliskova. By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro came back from a dreadful first set to defeat three-times Miami Open champion Venus Williams 0-6 6-1 7-5 at Key Biscayne on Tuesday and set up a semi-final clash with Germany's ninth seed Andrea Petkovic.
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