Master De was upset when he advanced to Dimi, Saba narrowly defeated Swa's egg reversal, and Gauff defeated Mira

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Last night, Beijing time, the ATP1000 Madrid Masters ended the fourth round of singles competition, and the quarterfinals were all produced. Fifth seed and British No.1 Draper put in a stellar 6-2 6-2 win over American Paul to reach the quarter-finals of the Masters for the fourth time on clay for the first time in his career with a top-20 win over a top-20 player. He will next face Italy's Gianluca Arnaldi, who defeated 16th seed Tiafoe 6-3 7-5 to reach the quarterfinals of the clay Masters for the first time in his career.

Italy's 10th seed Musetti was also in red-hot form, beating sixth seed and Australian Hare De Minaur 6-4 6-2 to beat the same opponent for the first time in Monte Carlo and reach the quarter-finals of Madrid for the first time. With this victory, Musetti will move into the top 10 for the first time in the world rankings, becoming the sixth Italian male player to break into the top 10.

The other quarter-final spot was won by Canada's lucky loser Diallo, who upset 15th seed Dimitrov of Bulgaria 5-7 7-6(7) 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of his career-high tournament. Quarter-finals: F-Cerundolo vs Mensik, Ruud vs Medvedev, Draper vs Arnaldi, Musetti vs Diallo.

Women's Field: In the singles quarter-finals of Madrid, WTA1000, two-time champion and top seed Sabalenka saved both sets to defeat 24th seed and Ukrainian Kostyuk 7-6(4) 7-6(7) to reach the semi-finals for the fourth time in her career. In the semi-finals, she will continue to face the Ukrainian in Svitolina, who swept past Japan's big black man Moe Natsu Uchijima 6-2 6-1 to reach the semi-finals of the tournament for the first time in her career, and the semi-finals of the WTA1000 tournament for the first time in more than four years.

In another highlight-reel match, defending champion and No.2 seed Swiatek fought back after an unexpected swallow in the first set, eventually beating fifth seed and American Keys 0-6 6-3 6-2 to avenge this year's Australian Open defeat and advance to the semi-finals for the third consecutive year.

In the other match, fourth seed and rising American star Gauff saved two set points after 4-5 in the first set and won eight games in a row to defeat Russian rising star Mira Andreeva 7-5 6-1 to reach the semifinals of a 1000 tournament for the ninth time in her career, setting a new personal best record. In the semifinals, she will face her old rival Swiatek. The two had met fourteen times before, with Gauff trailing 3-11 by a wide margin.

Let's move on to other news. Last night, Beijing time, the WTA issued an announcement announcing that the Sao Paulo station in Brazil will return to the WTA Tour in September this year. São Paulo is a 250 level and is an outdoor hard-court tournament with 32 singles and 16 doubles ties, and the tournament will be held from September 8 to 14.

In addition, Chinese player Wu Yixuan announced his withdrawal from the qualifying tournament of the ATP1000 Rome Masters, which will start next week. Some fans are puzzled, what happened to Ah Yu's body? Will you be able to get back into the game?

Finally, let's guess and recognize. The image below is of a player taking a selfie. Can you recognize who she is without prompting?

In the last guess, some golfers gave the correct answer. That's right, the person in the picture is the Russian star Rublev.

(Source: Tennis Home Author: Maverick)