The semifinals of the Monterrey Open will be a battle in the search for consolidation in the circuit. The young women on the rise Leyla Fernandez19, and Camila Osorio, 20, both with a WTA title in the showcase, will face Beatriz Haddad Maia, 25, and the experienced Nuria Párrizas, 30, respectively.
After giving impetus to the career of the Canadian Leylah Fernández with her first title, the Monterrey Open continues to forge the new stars of the circuit. In addition to Fernández continuing to defend the championship in the Open GNP Insurancethe Colombian Camila Osorio continues her way to place herself among the best rackets on the circuit.
In 2019, the Colombian won her first two matches at the WTA level after receiving an invitation to participate in the Open in her country, after a successful 2021 in which she managed to win the title in Bogotá, she has taken the Monterrey Open as a opportunity to confirm his rise among the best. After a great battle in the quarterfinals, Osorio knocked out the first seed of the Monterrey Open, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, 1-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7/5).
The world number 44, and with this the highest seeded Latin American in the WTA ranking, will face her first semifinal of the season in her third event of the year against the Spanish Nuria Párrizas.
Párrizas, number 51 in the ranking, defeated her compatriot Sara Sorribes Tormo, the fourth seed of the contest, in the quarterfinals and with this she achieved her first victory against a top 50 and reached the first semifinal of her career at tour level after from going 0-3 in their previous quarterfinals.
In the other set, the Brazilian Beatriz Haddad Maia, who starred in the longest match so far in the GNP Seguros Open (three hours and 32 minutes) against the Czech Marie Bouzková, will face another left-hander in the semifinals, the Canadian Leylah Fernández, who remains in the fight to defend the title and the points for the world ranking that she achieved last year.
Haddad Maia, a recent doubles finalist at the 2022 Australian Open, is through to her first tour-level singles semifinal since 2019. The Brazilian is one win away from her second career singles final on the WTA Tour; she because she was runner-up against Jelena Ostapenko in Seoul 2017.
The native of Sao Paulo, number 69 in the ranking, is in search of her first singles title on the WTA circuit, as she has three doubles titles. Her showdown with Fernandez will be the first of her career.
Fernández has a special connection with Mexico. In our country, she was a finalist in the Mexican Tennis Open in 2020 and now, a match separates her from fighting again for the Monterrey Open trophy and the opportunity to lift it in front of the public, since last year she held her first championship alone. of the WTA due to restrictions due to the pandemic.
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