Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Madison Keys and Mirra Andreeva qualified for the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 of Indian Wells. Halfs that promise enormously between the four most fit players from the start of the year.
The two best players in the world for three years, the winner of the first Grand Slam of the season and the great hope of tennis already present in the top 10 to 17 years. Difficult to have more beautiful square in a WTA 1000. In Indian Wells, the semi-finals will oppose Aryna Sabalenka to Madison Keys, and Iga Swiatek in Mirra Andreeva. Honor to the world No. 1, which continues to increase its advance in the standings since it had been eliminated from the eighth last year, Aryna Sabalenka. The Belarusian, which has not lost any set since the start of the tournament, easily beat the Russian Liudmila Samsonova (25th), yet Daria Kasatkina and Jasmine Paolini with previous towers, on the score of 6-2, 6-3 in 1h23.
Breakée from entry to the match (0-2), the Belarusian managed to win six games in a row afterwards. And in the second set, she saw her opponent come back from 0-3 3-3, but she managed to break it once again, at 4-3, before winning. But the task should be much more difficult in the semi-finals, where Madison Keys awaits her, for a remake of the last final of the Australian Open. The American won her 16th game in a row in 2025, against Belinda Bencic, 58th in the world. Switzerland, which returns from maternity and has impressed since the start of the tournament, notably with victories on Diana Shnaider and Coco Gauff, did not exist this time, being swept 6-1, 6-1 in 1h04. Keys, who plays the best tennis in his life currently, started the match with a 5-0, before letting go of one of his breaks in advance and pocket the set at 5-1. In the second, she broke at 2-1 and 4-1 to win and qualify for her first half at Indian Wells. Sabalenka, who led 4-1 in their confrontations before the Melbourne final (lost 6-3, 2-6, 7-5) will she manage to stop the Keys machine?
Swiatek will find Andreeva
In the lower part of the table, Iga Swiatek, who has not won a tournament since the last Roland-Garros, continued his health walk by beating Qinwen Zheng (9th) on the 6-3, 6-3 score in 1:37. Faced with this player who had eliminated her in the semi-finals of the Olympic tournament of which she was the immense favorite, which had hurt her, the Polish was very realistic, breaking her opponent five times on five occasions. Swiatek started the match strongly by leading 5-1, then lost one of his breaks in advance, before concluding at 5-3. The scenario was identical in the second set, and here is the world n ° 2 in the semi-finals.
And she will pass a huge test against Mirra Andreeva, who had eliminated her last month in the quarterfinals of the WTA 1000 of Dubai on the way to the most beautiful triumph of her career. Already n ° 11 in the world (and even guaranteed to be n ° 8, at worst, next Monday), while it will only celebrate its 18th anniversary in April, Russian beat the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina in the quarterfinals on the score of 7-5, 6-3 in 1h29. Andreeva won the first set thanks to a 5-5 break. In the second, she saw her opponent come back from 1-3 to 3-3, then won three games in a row to finish. The young Russian is in good shape, Iga Swiatek is warned.
