Baptiste is one win away from her first WTA Tour-level singles final
Hailey Baptiste saved six match points as she stunned world number one and defending champion Aryna Sabalenka in the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open.
Baptiste, the 30th seed, came through 2-6 6-2 7-6 (8-6) in a little over two and a half hours to end Sabalenka's 15-match winning streak.
She is just the second player, after Elena Rybakina in the Australian Open final, to defeat the Belarusian this season.
"I played her a few weeks ago [in Miami] and it was a close match. I had a better idea of how to play her and adjustments I needed to make," Baptiste, 24, said.
