Storm Hunter and Czech accomplice Katerina Siniakova are by to the ladies’s doubles semifinals on the WTA 1000 event at Indian Wells.
Indian Wells, USA , 13 March 2024 | Leigh Rogers
Storm Hunter is having fun with a career-best run at Indian Wells, advancing to the ladies’s doubles semifinals alongside Czech accomplice Katerina Siniakova.
The third-seeded pair secured their spot within the remaining 4 on the WTA 1000 event with a formidable 7-6(5) 6-2 victory in opposition to the seventh seeds, world No.17 Beatriz Haddad Maia and world No.11 Taylor Townsend.
This propels world No.3 Hunter and world No.12 Siniakova, who’re but to drop a set this event, into their fourth semifinal of the season.
It additionally improves their staff file in 2024 to 12 wins from their 14 matches.
Hunter and Siniakova’s semifinal opponents are but to be determined. Fifth seeds Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula loom as potential opponents, if the American duo can beat the unseeded pairing of Japan’s Ena Shibahara and American Asia Muhammad within the quarterfinals.
No matter who they face, Hunter is rewriting data along with her efficiency within the Californian desert.
The 29-year-old turns into the primary Australian to progress to the ladies’s doubles semifinals at Indian Wells since Sam Stosur in 2015.
This effort additionally betters Hunter’s personal earlier greatest outcome on the event, which was back-to-back doubles quarterfinal appearances in 2022 and 2023.
In males’s singles motion earlier at present, world No.6 Alexander Zverev eradicated Australian Alex de Minaur within the fourth spherical.
The German posted a hard-fought 5-7 6-2 6-3 victory to snap De Minaur’s seven-match profitable streak.
Aussies in motion – Indian Wells
RESULTS
Males’s singles, fourth spherical
[6] Alexander Zverev (GER) d [10] Alex de Minaur (AUS) 5-7 6-2 6-3
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) d [7] Beatriz Haddad Maia (BRA)/Taylor Townsend (USA) 7-6(5) 6-2
COMING UP
Girls’s doubles, quarterfinals
[4] Ellen Perez (AUS)/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (USA) v [8] Lyudmyla Kichenok (UKR)/Jelena Ostapenko (LAT)
Girls’s doubles, semifinals
[3] Storm Hunter (AUS)/Katerina Siniakova (CZE) v TBD
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