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20m ago
Bianca Andreescu
, The Canadian press
MIAMI – Canada’s Bianca Andreescu is in the final of the Miami Open by three sets after another victory.
The eighth seeded Andreescu fought twice after a breakdown in the third set and defeated the 23-year-old Maria Sakkari of Greece with 7: 6 (7), 3: 6, 7: 6 (4) in a match that ended in 1:35 p.m. ET on Friday.
Andreescu has her last four games in three sets won and won a total of six threes in a row. Eight of their eleven games this year have gone over the distance.
The Canadian will face Ash Barty from Australia in the final of the WTA 1000 event on Saturday. Barty defeated Elina Svitolina from Ukraine in the first semi-final on Thursday 6: 3, 6: 3.
Andreescu finished Sakkari on her third match point of the tie. She took command, taking two points in a row from Sakkari’s serve to move up 5-2.
The Canadian double faulted on a crucial point for the second time in the game, giving Sakkari a break to play move up the third set 6: 5. But Andreescu broke right back without dropping a point to send him off to a crucial tiebreaker.
This is Andreescu’s third tournament after a 16 month absence from a knee injury. She is trying to regain the shape of her breakthrough in the 2019 season when she won three tournaments, including the US Open.
Sakkari broke Andreescu 3-2 in the third set but couldn’t hold the lead.
The Canadian combined it 4: 4 with her own break. Andreescu ran down a shot before Sakkari hit you far to end the game.
Andreescu’s constancy sank as the set continued with several casual mistakes that led to the crucial break that gave Sakkari a 5-3 lead brought it.
Sakkari connected it 3-3 with her first break in the second set and ran down a forehand to stay in the game before overpowering Andreescu with some aggressive shots.
Andreescu appeared at the start of the Being in trouble in the game, however, saved two breakpoints to hold the service and then broke her opponent for the first time to move up 3-1.
But she was unable to take control, when she fired a long backhand to return the break on her next service game, and 33 minutes in Greek it was back to 4-4.
Sakkari wouldn’t go away, but Andreescu went shot after shot and saved two set points, before he s Finally, a backhand passed her opponent to take the tiebreaker with the first set, which lasted a full hour.
Andreescu returned from her 16-month release at the Australian Open in February and lost in the second round of the Grand Slam.
The 20-year-old Canadian then reached the semi-finals of an event in Melbourne for players who had been eliminated early at the Australian Open. A leg injury suffered there, however, kept her away to Miami.
The 25-year-old Sakkari ended Naomi Osaka’s unbeaten 23-game run with a 6-0, 6-4 win over the Japanese player in the quarter-finals.
In their previous game, Sakkari fought the American Jessica Pegula for six match points.
In women’s doubles, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Mexico’s Giuliana Olmos will meet Luisa Stefani from Brazil and Hayley Carter from the USA in the semi-finals on Friday .
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