Pakistan, April 30 -- Hailey Baptiste offered a glimpse of how Aryna Sabalenka can be unsettled on clay after mixing forays to the net with changes of pace to save six match points and prevail over the world number one in their Madrid Open quarter-final on Tuesday. Baptiste's 2-6 6-2 7-6(6) victory ended Sabalenka's 15-match winning streak, as the 24-year-old American's inventive tennis under extreme pressure, most notably her serve-and-volley approach, dragged her opponent out of her comfort zone.

With the French Open starting on May 24, Baptiste gave four-times Grand slam champion Sabalenka's prospective opponents a reminder that variety often disrupts raw power on the sport's slowest surface. "I played her a few weeks ago (in Miami) a...