Caroline Wozniacki was too big a mouthful for Greek Maria Sakkari in Friday’s quarter-final in the WTA tournament of Charleston.
Here won the dane with the digits 6-2, 6-2 over the world number 50, and thus is Wozniacki ready for the semi-final on Saturday against Petra Martic.
Kroaten is number 53 in the world and beat in her quarter-final swiss Belinda Bencic with the digits 6-3, 6-4.
Like in the previous encounter in the tournament put Wozniacki hard out in the first set, where the 28-year-old dane kept his servepartier, bread Greek, and brought out in front 4-0.
But Sakkari answered back and came at 2-4 after the first to have broken the She the serve and then hold her own.
the Dane was back on an even keel, and drove safely set in the house without letting the Greek approach further.
At the beginning of the second set was the match turned on its head. Maria Sakkari was really in control of his serve, while Wozniacki started making unprovoked mistakes, which the dane had otherwise kept to a minimum in the first set.
the Greek came in front 2-0 and was in control.
But then hankede Wozniacki up in itself, among other things, after father and coach Piotr Wozniacki had been on the pitch to come up with a few advice.
At 2-2 started Sakkari to be frustrated. Dane’s defence was tough to break down, and Wozniacki was again eliminated most unprovoked errors.
It was thus both 3-2, 4-2 and 5-2 in Danish favor, and so would the Greek serve with their backs against the wall.
After a bit of a maratonparti succeeded the dane to win on his fifth match point, and then came semifinalebilletten in the house.