After Being Humiliated by Cornet, Dart, 26, Returned to the Court Roughly 18 Hours Later, Knowing She Needed to Win to Keep Britain's Slender Hopes Alive
Posted : 19 April 2023
The chances of this happening were slim after a lopsided opening set concluded in Garcia's advantage after only 28 minutes.
The British number three broke back after suffering a 2-0 serve loss in the next set, but Garcia utilized her powerful and merciless game to completely destroy Dart's service game.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, the reigning winner of the Monte Carlo Masters, and Daniil Medvedev, the third seed, lost in the quarterfinals.
Tsitsipas, 24, was defeated 6-2, 6-4 by eighth-seeded American Taylor Fritz after dropping the first four games of the match.
Holger Rune of Denmark, the sixth-seeded player, defeated 27-year-old Russian Medvedev in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4.
On Saturday, the semi-final matchups between Fritz and the Russian Andrey Rublev and between Rune and the Italian Jannick Sinner will be played.
The third-ranked Greek player in the world, Tsitsipas, fought back against Fritz in the second set but lost in little over an hour.
Fritz had been defeated by the second seed on three occasions on hard courts, and she had won 12 matches overall on the clay in Monaco with just one set lost.
He tied the score at 4-4 in the second set, but he was unable to hold his service once again, falling down 5-4, before Fritz converted an ace on his first match chance to secure the victory.
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