Madison Keys Wins Again, Reaches BNP Paribas Semifinals

Madison Keys prolonged her successful streak to 16 matches, reaching the BNP Paribas Open semifinals with a straightforward 6-1, 6-1 victory over wild-card entry Belinda Bencic on Thursday.

The Australian Open champion took simply 65 minutes to arrange a rematch with top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Liudmila Samsonova 6-2, 6-3 later within the day. Keys had crushed Sabalenka in three units in January at Melbourne Park, denying Sabalenka her third consecutive title.

Bencic, who had upset No. 4 seed Coco Gauff within the fourth spherical, stood no probability in opposition to Keys, the fifth seed, who dominated the match from begin to end.

Within the males’s draw, 22-year-old Ben Shelton, the youngest American man to achieve the quarterfinals at Indian Wells since 2004, couldn’t progress additional. Jack Draper of England moved into the semifinals with a 6-4, 7-5 win.

The Thirteenth-seeded Draper will now face No. 2 seed Carlos Alcaraz, the two-time defending champion, who stored his successful streak at Indian Wells going with a 6-3, 7-6 (4) victory over Francisco Cerundolo.

Iga Swiatek additionally reached the BNP Paribas semifinals for the fourth consecutive time, as she goals to develop into the primary girl to win the match 3 times. The No. 2 seed from Poland beat eighth-seeded Qinwen Zheng of China 6-3, 6-3, avenging her loss to Zheng in final yr’s Paris Olympics semifinal.

Swiatek, the defending champion, has now received 10 matches in a row at Indian Wells, having additionally received the occasion in 2022. Zheng had ended Swiatek’s 25-match successful streak on the Olympics final yr.

Swiatek was good on her break factors, changing all 5, however Zheng nonetheless managed to interrupt twice, successful six video games in whole, probably the most Swiatek had dropped within the match to date.

Within the males’s occasion, Daniil Medvedev reached the Indian Wells semifinals for the third consecutive yr, defeating 20-year-old Frenchman Arthur Fils 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7). The fifth-seeded Russian stayed on monitor for his third ultimate look on the occasion, regardless of a short delay within the third set attributable to robust winds blowing particles onto the courtroom.

Mirra Andreeva superior to the ladies’s semifinals with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Elina Svitolina, whereas Holger Rune made his first Indian Wells semifinal with a comeback 5-7, 6-0, 6-3 victory over Tallon Griekspoor.