Pegula and Rybakina restored order after a slew of shock exits in Qatar, but No. 4 seed Jasmine Paolini wasn’t so lucky in her loss to Jelena Ostapenko.
Jelena Ostapenko has ended Iga Swiatek’s three-year reign of the Qatar Open in the semifinals in Doha and will play against American Amanda Anisimova in the final.