

One of the other featured matches of the day saw Sergio Garcia defeat Cameron Smith 2 and 1. Pat Perez and Talor Gooch had to squeak out a 1-up win over Graeme McDowell and Richard Bland in the foursomes match for the Aces to have a chance to cap their terrific season with a $16 million first prize on Sunday. Dustin Johnson destroyed Shergo Al Kurdi 5 and 3, but Patrick Reed lost to Laurie Canter. The 4 Aces - which had dominated the season -narrowly escaped on Saturday in the semifinals. That sent the Stinger GC onto Sunday, joining the 4 Aces, Punch GC and Smash GC in the finale. Bryson DeChambeau and Louis Oosthuizen went 23 holes before Oosthuizen beat DeChambeau 1 up. The match of the day on Saturday determined the last team in the championship. The top four teams over the first two days at Trump National Doral have moved on to championship Sunday, where teams will play stroke play for $34 million worth of prize money. He rattled off five straight points to take the first set.The match play portion of LIV Golf's season-ending championship is complete. Alcaraz ran the baseline like a madman, firing lobs and drop shots with some highlight-reel winners. Tsitsipas had the first set in his hands when he jumped out to a 5-2 lead, but Alcaraz fought back by winning four of six break-point opportunities. He will likely look back on Tuesday's match with regret. Osaka has lost each of her last three meetings against Bencic, so she will surely be motivated to end her skid.įor Tsitsipas, he suffered his second straight loss to the 18-year-old Alcaraz after their epic five-set match at the U.S. Like Osaka, Bencic has not dropped a set in the Miami Open. The semifinal match will be between the two titans of the tournament so far. This is Osaka’s 1st WTA 1000 SF since winning 2020 Cincinnati. WTA Insider Osaka advances to her 1st Miami Open SF and biggest since winning the 2021 Australian Open. She didn't face a break point in the entire match and instead did a great job of taking advantage of Collins' mistakes by converting five of her seven break-point opportunities. Osaka was aggressive once again and remained strong with her serve, recording 13 aces and winning 87.5 percent of her first-service points, per the WTA's official website. It was horrible timing for the injury to rear its head, considering the level at which Osaka is playing. Unfortunately for Collins, her lingering neck injury seemed to bother her throughout the match. With the straight-set victory, Osaka is now 3-0 lifetime against the 28-year-old. Osaka has been in a groove since the start of the Miami Open, and that continued Tuesday against the ninth-seeded Collins. 11 Taylor Fritz 3-6, 6-1, 6-4įrancisco Cerundolo def. 9 Jannik Sinner def. Nick Kyrgios 7-6 (3), 6-3 2 Alexander Zverev def. Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-4, 6-4 1 Daniil Medvedev def. Jenson Brooksby 7-5, 6-1 22 Belinda Bencic def. Daria Saville 6-1, 6-2
