 Petra Kovinova vs Sarana Kasteya is the second semi-final for the ladies Miami Open for 2023 and both ladies have surprised to get to this semi-final stage. Kasteya started the tournament off unseated and would take on the wildcard Gomez in the first round and after a close first set would get through in straights 7-6-6-2. In the second round she'd take on the number five seat Garcia who she had beaten last week in Indian Wells. This time the score line was even more impressive getting through in straights 6-2-6-3. In the third round she'd take on the qualifier Mukava who had been in very good form the last couple of tournaments and after a close first set Kasteya would get through in straights 7-5-6-1. In the fourth round she'd take on Vondrusava who had also been very impressive the last couple of weeks but again after a close first set Kasteya would get through in straights 7-6-6-4 to advance to the quarter finals. In the quarter finals Kasteya would take on the number two seat Sabalenka who had been very impressive for the entire week and only lost two matches for the year. This was no problem for Kasteya getting through in straights 6-4-6-4 to get to the semi-finals. Kovitava started the tournament off as number 15 seed and would get a buy in the first round. In the second round she'd take on the Czech youngster Nuskova in a battle of the generations but this was easy for Kovitava winning in straights 6-3-6-1. In the third round she'd take on the number 22 seat Vekic and after a close second set Kovitava would get through in straights 6-4-7-6. In the fourth round she'd take on the qualifier Gracheva who had been very good in recent weeks taking out Honstier Burr earlier in this tournament and after a very close set in the second Kovitava would get through 7-5-7-6 to advance to the quarter finals. In the quarter finals Kovitava would take on the number 18 seat Alexendrova. After dropping the second set we'd have to fight to win in three 6-4-3-6-6-3 to advance to the semi-finals. These two ladies have played 10 times before with Kovitava leading the head dead 6-4 but Kasteya has won two of their last three matches over the past few seasons. Kasteya is going to win this one she needs to make Kovitava move and she also needs to keep her cool she's been doing that really well this week she's actually said that in interviews as well she's playing the best tennis of her career she thanks her coach for that Thomas Johansson so she needs to use that to affect against Kovitava. If Kovitava is going to win this one she needs to get that serve on track too many double faults and too many errors from the serving of Kovitava in that second set against Alexendrova luckily she put it together in the third set but she does that against what we saw with Kasteya a couple of days ago she's going to get beaten bad this is a very interesting matchup because of course we didn't expect these two here we thought Savalanca might be here in place of Kasteya and who knows Kovitava sometimes does make big matches like this remember Cincinnati last year but I'm going to go with Kovitava in this one based on experience I think her experience at Grand Slam level and winning big trophies will get her to the final I think it's going to be a really close three setter let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this one