Ninth-seeded Garbine Muguruza of Spain outlasted third-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 on Thursday to earn her third appearance in the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Muguruza has yet to appear in the final of the United Arab Emirates event. Her semifinal opponent will be 10th-seeded Elise Mertens of Belgium, who rallied past American Jessica Pegula 5-7, 7-5, 6-0.
The other semifinal will feature a pair of unseeded players. Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann, who got past American Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-3, will face the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova, who routed Russia’s Anastasia Potapova 6-0, 6-2.
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