At the opening of the program, Jabeur spent only 67 minutes on the Central Madrid to get rid of his Romanian opponent.
Halep beaten, we now know that a player will open her record in the WTA 1000 on Saturday, since the last four in the running have never won in a tournament of this caliber, the most difficult after the Grand Slams.
For her second semi-final at this level (after Indian Wells 2021), Jabeur (10th) will face Russian qualifier Ekaterina Alexandrova (45th) on Thursday, victorious over American Amanda Anisimova (33rd) 6-4, 6-3 in the quarter-finals.
For his first two tournaments of the season on clay, Jabeur (27) reached the final in Charleston (United States) and the quarter-finals in Stuttgart (Germany).
The second semi-final will pit the American Jessica Pegula (14th) against the Swiss Jil Teichmann (35th).
Pegula overcame the fiercer resistance than the score of the Spaniard Sara Sorribes (47th) 6-4, 6-2 in 1h47 min indicates.
Teichmann ended the course of the Ukrainian Anhelina Kalinina (37th) 6-3, 6-4.
The Swiss is the only one of the four semi-finalists to have already played in a WTA 1000 final: it was in Cincinnati last summer.
She lost there against the then world N.1, Ashleigh Barty, who has since ended her career by surprise.
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