"I did things very well", Caroline Garcia rightly welcomed Friday, after qualifying for the semi-finals of the WTA 1000 in Cincinnati, where she can win a third title this season, to better mark a return to its best level.

The 28-year-old Frenchwoman, 35th in the world, was intractable against the American Jessica Pegula, winning 6-1, 7-5 in just 1h13.

“I played a very good game, very solid.

I was very aggressive from start to finish.

"Jess" is a fighter, she never lets herself go.

Some rallies were very, very fast, you had to be ready.

I served well to get easy points.

It gives confidence to put more pressure in return, and it paid off in the end, ”she summed up.

Best Ongoing Series on the WTA Tour

Garcia, who will challenge Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka (7th) on Saturday, is only two victories away from a third trophy this season after those raised in June in Bad Homburg and in July in Warsaw, where she had in passing the scalp of the world N.1 Iga Swiatek.

Over the last ten weeks, she has accumulated 24 victories.

No one is currently doing better on the circuit.

Enough to reconnect with its best level, reached in 2017, when it had won two WTA 1000 in a row in Wuhan and Beijing, before reaching the semi-finals of the Masters in Singapore.

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🇫🇷 @CaroGarcia takes out the No.7 seed Pegula and records her best showing in Cincinnati!#CincyTennis pic.twitter.com/hSVxgobvH6

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"When you do things wrong, people forget about you pretty quickly and forget what you've done in the past.

As soon as you have a few wins in a row and play better tennis, it's like you're a star again,” she said.

“I know where I come from with my team and that's the most important thing.

I guess the experience of the past is going to help me manage, make the right decisions and keep the right mindset to keep it going,” she added.

Hailed for her sharp playing by American media wondering about the origin of her technique at a press conference, Garcia replied with humor: "It's a French technique".

"I don't know how it happened, that's how I learned tennis," she continued more seriously.

“When you're young, it's a lot of rehearsals to get there.

Then you follow this path.

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