Simona Halep impresses again.

The world no.1 keeps on demolishing top players in Melbourne even if she is still struggling with the ankle that she twisted in the first round against Destanee Aiava.

Simona impressed against Karolina Pliskova also because her opponent was 1 point from conquering a sizable 4-0 lead in the 1^st set. Eventually, the Romanian won that point to grab the following 9 games and get a solid 6-3 3-0 lead before winning the contest 6-3 6-2 in just 71 minutes.

I had to restart. HALEP

Talking about her match, Simona commented

“For sure it wasn’t my best start. I just knew that I had to restart, actually, after three games — just to stop missing that much and to move better, which I did pretty well in the end. Then I just started to open the court, to play my style, and I served well today. Everything went pretty well for me.”

Then she added

“I can read [Pliskova’s] game a little bit better. But still, every match is difficult. You never know with her because she has crazy good shots sometimes, and also the serve. But, yeah, like I said, I read her serve many times today. I just was very strong on the return. I think that’s why I could start to dominate the game. She was a little bit upset because she couldn’t take the serve.”

Next vs. Kerber

Simona will face an inform Angelique Kerber in the semifinal. The head to head is 4-3 for the German, but Halep leads 3-1 on hard courts.