Spain's Cristina Bucsa advanced to the Hong Kong Tennis Open semifinals on Friday when top-seeded Swiss Belinda Bencic withdrew before their match with a thigh injury.

Bucsa will take on No. 5 seed Maya Joint of Australia, who outlasted Japan's Himeno Sakatsume 6-4, 2-6, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.

No. 2 seed Leylah Fernandez and No. 3 Victoria Mboko both won in straight sets to set up an all-Canadian semifinal. Fernandez defeated No. 7 Sorana Cirstea of Romania 6-4, 6-4 and Mboko was leading No. 6 Anna Kalinskaya 6-1, 3-1 when the Russian was forced to retire.

Jiangxi Open

Russia's Anna Blinkova eliminated No. 3 seed Alycia Parks 7-5, 7-5 in just under two hours to reach the semifinals in Jiujiang, China.

Taking advantage of a whopping 14 double faults by Parks, Blinkova advanced to fa

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