Belinda Bencic News
Sania Mirza and Lucie Hradecka had won against top seeds Zhang Shuai-Caroline Dolehide in the semi-finals, 2-6, 6-4, 8-10. Sania Mirza has announced that she will retire from professional tennis at the end of 2022.
Sixth seed Rafa Nadal will face the winner of wildcard Thanasi Kokkinakis and qualifier Yannick Hanfmann for a place in the third round.
Belinda Bencic lost to Ons Jabeur, who had replaced US Open champion Emma Raducanu after the Briton tested positive for COVID-19 and withdrew from the event.
Eighth-ranked Belinda Bencic became the latest player to withdraw from the Grand Slam tournament in New York
The US Open is slated to take place from August 31 to September 13
Nick Kyrgios, Rafael Nadal, Ashleigh Barty and Bianca Andreescu have already pulled out of the US Open
Andreescu has now become the second Canadian after Eugenie Bouchard to reach the final of a Grand Slam.
Defending champions Naomi Osaka and Novak Djokovic both failed to make the quarter-finals after suffering shock defeats at Flushing Meadows.
Osaka slumped to a 7-5, 6-4 win against Bencic in the last-16 clash of the women's singles event that lasted a little less that one and a half hour at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
Sakkari will now be up against fifth seed Wozniacki in the quarter-final of the tournament.
With the win, Kerber has now set up a clash in the summit showdown against Canadian wildcard Bianca Andreescu.
Kerber, who is looking for a maiden title in Indian Wells, will next play Belinda Bencic after the Swiss beat world number five Karolina Pliskova earlier in the quarter-final.
Next up for Bencic is a semi-final against either American Venus Williams or German Angelique Kerber.
Osaka never found her rhythm against Belinda Bencic as the Swiss used her precise groundstrokes and pinpoint serving, to topple the defending champion in just over an hour.
The win was also Bencic`s fourth win over a top 10 player this week after getting past Aryna Sabalenka, Simona Halep and Elina Svitolina in the previous rounds.
Murray`s announcement that Melbourne Park could be his last tournament as a professional has made 37-year-old Federer`s career seem all the more miraculous.
Unseeded German Andrea Petkovic reached the Citi Open semi-finals for the second consecutive year, beating sixth seed Belinda Bencic 6-3 2-6 7-6(8) on Friday.
Belinda Bencic sent an early shockwave through the Australian Open by dumping last year`s finalist Venus Williams out of the first round with an impressive 6-3 7-5 win on Monday.
William is set to play in second round clash against Czech Lucie Safarova.
The 17-time Grand Slam champion has not played a match since July when he tumbled during the final set of a loss to Milos Raonic in the semi-finals at Wimbledon.
Belinda Bencic was another Swiss tennis star to have pulled out of the Olympics.
The Hopman Cup, which was won this year by Australians Nick Kyrgios and Daria Gavrilova, takes place at Perth Arena from January 1 to 7.
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