Hailey Baptiste Tops Aryna Sabalenka, Sets Madrid Semifinal Date — Tennis Scores Today
Hailey Baptiste saved six match points and beat Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-2, 7-6, the result that moved tennis scores today into the Madrid Open semifinals. Mirra Andreeva now waits on Thursday, April 30, 2026, with both players trying to reach their first Madrid final.
Baptiste Stuns Sabalenka
Baptiste’s quarterfinal win was built on survival as much as shotmaking. She dropped the opening set, recovered to take the second, then held off Sabalenka in the tiebreak after the World No. 1 had six match points.
The comeback sent Baptiste into her first WTA 1000 semifinal. It also gave her a rare line in the clay-court record book: she became the lowest ranked player to claim a comeback win on clay against the World No. 1 in the last 40 years.
That victory came a month after she lost to Sabalenka in Miami. Earlier in February, Baptiste had already reached the semifinals in Abu Dhabi, so this run did not come from nowhere.
Andreeva’s Madrid Run
Andreeva reached her first Madrid semifinal by saving set points against Leylah Fernandez and finishing the match in straight sets. She had already moved through Panna Udvardy and Dalma Galfi before a tougher test against Anna Bondar, then turned 19 on Wednesday.
The Russian also arrives with a strong clay-season line: she won the title in Linz and reached the Stuttgart semifinals earlier in the spring. She is the youngest player to reach three consecutive quarterfinals at a single Tier I/WTA-1000 event since Martina Hingis in Miami from 1997-99.
Andreeva leads Baptiste 1-0, with the only meeting coming in the third round at Wimbledon in 2025, where Andreeva won 6-1, 6-3. Baptiste called the matchup, “Somebody else that I played before and lost to. A little bit of a revenge tour, I guess,” and added, “Looking to go out there and play my game again and get another win.”
Kostyuk And Potapova
The other semifinal on Thursday pairs Marta Kostyuk with lucky loser Anastasia Potapova. All four semifinalists are chasing their first appearance in a Madrid final on the WTA Tour Driven by Mercedes-Benz, which leaves the bracket open for a first-time finalist to come through.
For Baptiste, the task is direct: repeat the level that saved six match points against Sabalenka. For Andreeva, it is a chance to turn a first Madrid semifinal into a first Madrid final and settle a head-to-head that already belongs to her.
