Aryna Sabalenka only made a bite (6-2, 6-2) of the Italian Jasmine Paolini, 7th in the ranking, in the first semi-final of the Miami tournament. The world number 1, which will play its first final in Florida, will face the surprising Philippine Alexandra Eala or the American Jessica Pegula for the title.
Some saw in this first semi-final a final before the letter, others expected a beautiful struggle coupled with an exciting and undecided confrontation between the best player in the world of the moment and that having probably displayed the most beautiful progression since January 2024. However, of duel, there was not at all.
Aryna Sabalenka indeed atomized (6-2, 6-2) a Jasmine Paolini never entered the game and which probably had to have a lot of trouble achieving the first when the world number 1 had just concluded the game on its second match ball and that the meeting had only started for 1:11 the violence of the depulotté that the Belarusian had just inflicted on it. The first opportunity of this part having finally turned to the demonstration of the biggest favorite for the title since the incredible Philippine Alexandra Eala signed a new feat, at the expense of the world number 2 IGA Swiatek, it is paradoxically the Italian who had provided it.
First for Sabalenka
But, you understood, without managing to grasp it, unlike Sabalenka, which launched from the fourth game a long series of breaks, all to its credit. It was by once again complying the seventh in the ranking and finalist of Roland-Garros and Wimbledon in 2024 that the finalist at Indian Wells two weeks earlier completed the first round.
Paolini did not know it yet, but the second was going to give rise to the same health promenade of the number 1 seeded, which even pushed mimicry to the break at the same time as in the first set. The only difference: this time it is on its own play that the Belarusian validated its ticket for the final. The first in Miami for the one who had stopped in the quarterfinals during her last two participations. A first coronation in Florida may wait for him now. For this, it will be necessary to beat the amazing Eala or Jessica Pegula, opposed in the second semi-final.
