2019 - MIAMI - USA, FL
Semifinal stars: Halep, Pliskova set up Miami showdown
All the best pictures from Miami Open 2019 quarterfinal action.
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Hsieh Su-Wei was ahead for much of her quarterfinal against Anett Kontaveit, going up a set and a break and holding a 4-0 lead in the decider (Getty)
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Anett Kontaveit battled back from the brink to reach her first Premier Mandatory semifinal, reeling off the last four games of both the second and third sets against Hsieh Su-Wei (Getty)
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Kontaveit and Hsieh, who shared coach Paul McNamee for a year in 2014-15, embraced warmly after their two-hour contest (Getty)
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Ashleigh Barty avenged two losses to Petra Kvitova over the Australian summer to gain her first win against the Czech in five meetings (Jimmie48/WTA)
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Petra Kvitova fought back to take the second set, but ultimately saw her bid to reach World No.1 next week slip away in the third set (Getty)
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Ashleigh Barty guaranteed that she will become the 10th Australian Top 10 player since the computer rankings began in 1975 (Jimmie48/WTA)
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Simona Halep's quest to retake the World No.1 took another step forwards with a quarterfinal win over Wang Qiang (Getty)
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Wang Qiang fought back from a set and a break down to lead 5-1 in the second set against Simona Halep (Jimmie48/WTA)
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Simona Halep reeled off the last six games of her quarterfinal against Wang Qiang, and now requires just one more win to move back to World No.1 (Jimmie48/WTA)
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Karolina Pliskova is yet to lose before the quarterfinals in 2019, and moved into her third semifinal over compatriot Marketa Vondrousova (Getty)
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19-year-old Marketa Vondrousova was playing her second consecutive Premier Mandatory quarterfinal against Karolina Pliskova (Getty)
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Karolina Pliskova came through the first all-Czech quarterfinal in Miami to extend her winning streak against compatriots to 13 (Getty)
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