French Open 2023: Karolina Muchova beats Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova to reach semi-finals

Karolina Muchova's lone erstwhile Grand Slam semi-final quality came astatine the 2021 Australian Open, wherever she mislaid to Jennifer Brady

Karolina Muchova reached her archetypal French Open semi-final with a straight-set triumph implicit erstwhile finalist Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

She edged a tense, hour-long opening acceptable that featured 5 breaks of service earlier winning the 2nd comfortably.

Muchova volition look the victor of Tuesday's 2nd quarter-final successful Paris betwixt Elina Svitolina and satellite fig 2 Aryna Sabalenka.

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Pavyluchenkova, who has dropped to 333 successful the satellite aft a superior genu wounded past year, reached the last astatine Roland Garros successful 2021, losing to Barbora Krejcikova.

Her hopes of repeating that tally were ended by a good show from Muchova, 26, who broke the Russian's service 5 times.

"It's been an unthinkable 2 weeks and I'm conscionable gladsome I'm inactive successful the competition," Muchova said successful her on-court interview.

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