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Two women’s semifinals, and two men’s quarterfinals, split the day and night session bills Thursay in Madrid.

The No. 1 and No. 2 seeds on the women’s side, Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka were still alive and you’d have to give them both a great chance to meet in the final for the second straight tournament. They delivered.

As for the men in the bottom half of the draw, there was No. 4 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas – and then there a qualifier, a lucky loser and a Chinese player who was barely inside the top 100 before the tournament began.

That’s the kind of week it’s been.

The qualifier and the lucky loser make it to the final four.

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Mutua Madrid Open
Location: Madrid, Spain (Joint event with the ATP Tour)
Category: WTA 1000
Dates: April 25 – May 7, 2023
Prize money: $7,652,174
Draws: S96 – D32

Thursday, May 4, 2023
Final results

Women’s singles, semifinals

[1] Iga Swiatek (POL) def [12] Veronika Kudermetova (RUS) 61 61
[2] Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) def. [9] Maria Sakkari (GRE) 64 61

Men’s singles, quarterfinals

[LL] Jan-Lennard Struff (GER) def [4] Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) 76 (5) 57 63
[Q] Aslan Karatsev (RUS) def Zhizhen Zhang (CHN) 76 (3) 64

Men’s doubles, semifinals

Karen Khachanov / Andrey Rublev (RUS) def [4] Marcelo Arevalo (ESA) / Jean-Julien Rojer (NED) 64 64
[7] Rohan Bopanna (IND) / Matthew Ebden (AUS) def [8] Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) / Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) 57 76 (3) [10-4]

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