The second semifinal at the WTA Italian Open in Rome will be a rematch of a fourth-round match from Madrid. Second seed Aryna Sabalenka will look to secure her place in back-to-back WTA 1000 finals when she confronts the unstoppable Danielle Collins. Who will reach the Rome final?<\/p>\n
Head-to-head:<\/strong> Sabalenka 5-0 Collins<\/p>\n Sabalenka ensured the top three women in the rankings will headline a semifinal at the WTA tour level for the first time since the 2013 French Open (excluding WTA Finals). She’s beaten her power-hitting adversaries one by one on her way to a second semifinal at the Italian Open. First, it was Katie Volynets. Then, it was the Ukrainian duo of Dayana Yastremska and Elina Svitolina before upending Jelena Ostapenko in a clash of the heavyweights. She has dropped a set on two occasions. One was in her opening match against American Volynets, and the other was in that late-night thriller against Svitolina, where she saved three match points. It will be another relentless hard hitter waiting in the last four and a woman she beat just two weeks ago in Madrid.<\/p>\n Danielle Collins has quickly got back into winning ways in Rome. She has not lost a set en route to another semifinal. She took care of Victoria Azarenka in Wednesday’s quarterfinal to make it 19 wins from her last 20 matches<\/a>. The only player who put a stain on Collins’ near-perfect run then was the second seed Sabalenka.<\/p>\n