{"id":69844,"date":"2022-09-08T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aryna-sabalenka-shakes-off-wimbledon-ban-to-reach-us-open-semifinals\/"},"modified":"2022-09-08T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T13:25:03","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-shakes-off-wimbledon-ban-to-reach-us-open-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aryna-sabalenka-shakes-off-wimbledon-ban-to-reach-us-open-semifinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka shakes off Wimbledon ban to reach US Open semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Aryna Sabalenka spent the previous Grand Slam at her second home in Miami: Practicing, eating out and shutting the television off anytime it was tuned in to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>As a Belorussian, Sabalenka was banned from Wimbledon, but she&#8217;s hardly sitting it out in Flushing Meadows.  The No.  6 seed roared into her second-straight US Open semifinals in routing Karolina Pliskova, 6-1, 7-6 Wednesday to become the first player to advance to the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>She will face top-seeded Iga Swiatek, who defeated American Jessica Pegula, 6-3, 7-6 (4) in the night session.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka, with high energy, overmatched Pliskova in a quick first set.  The former world No.  1 from the Czech Republic failed to notch a forehand winner in the first set.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sabalenka didn&#8217;t face a break point all match, committing just three double faults \u2014 which has been her Achilles&#8217; heel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started really well, and the first set was really high level for me and put a lot of pressure on her,\u201d Sabalenka said.<\/p>\n<p>That Sabalenka was forced into Wimbledon exile made this that much more special.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Aryna Sabalenka<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corey Sipkin for the NY POST<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI had another preseason,\u201d Sabalenka said.  \u201cI worked really hard, and I worked a lot on my serve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it was a tough time, especially when I was working out in the gym and there was Wimbledon playing on the TV.  I would always turn it off because I couldn&#8217;t watch it.  But it was a tough time.  I like that tournament and missed it very much.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThey took away one opportunity from me, and I work really hard for this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At least she was in sunny South Beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was spending time in the good restaurants and on the beach,&#8221; Sabalenka said.  \u201cI mean, I like Miami.  It&#8217;s beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Sabalenka made the Open semifinals and had to face an Arthur Ashe Stadium crowd rooting heavily for Leylah Fernandez, who was out in the second round this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka nearly was wiped out here in the second round, too, but staged a miraculous rally from 6-2, 5-1, shaking off match points against Kaia Kanepi.<\/p>\n<p>She avoided being the sideshow again in the semis Friday night as American Jessica Pegula, of Buffalo and Boca Raton, lost Wednesday night against No.  1 seed Iga Swiatek.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka&#8217;s country is not denoted on any draw sheet or tour-sanctioned material as part of the sanctions against Russia and Belarus for the Ukraine invasion.<\/p>\n<p>But the USTA let her play \u2014 and a 103 mph ace in the middle of the tiebreaker sealed her semifinal berth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aryna Sabalenka spent the previous Grand Slam at her second home in Miami: Practicing, eating out and shutting the television off anytime it was tuned in to Wimbledon. As a Belorussian, Sabalenka was banned from Wimbledon, but she&#8217;s hardly sitting it out in Flushing Meadows. The No. 6 seed roared into her second-straight US Open &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/aryna-sabalenka-shakes-off-wimbledon-ban-to-reach-us-open-semifinals\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aryna Sabalenka shakes off Wimbledon ban to reach US Open semifinals<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[24415,24416,307,19,13297],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":71008,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/iga-swiatek-immediately-regrets-disgusting-us-open-reveal\/","url_meta":{"origin":69844,"position":0},"title":"Iga Swiatek immediately regrets &#8216;disgusting&#8217; US Open reveal","date":"September 9, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"A bathroom break helped propel Iga Swiatek to a comeback win against No. 6 seed Aryna Sabalenka in the second semifinal at the US Open on Thursday night. 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