British No 2 Jordanne Whiley has beaten world No 6 Annick Sevenans of Belgium to reach the women's singles semi-finals at the Sydney International Wheelchair Tennis Open.
World No 10 Whiley clinched a second set tie-break to keep herself in Thursday's quarter-final against Sevenans and took the momentum into the third and deciding set to complete her comeback and seal a 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-2 victory. Eighteen-year-old Whiley now plays Australian world No 2 Daniela di Toro in Friday's semi-finals.
In Whiley's only previous match against Sevenans she won just two games when they met in the semi-finals of a tournament in Switzerland in March 2009, but the Belgian becomes the third player ranked inside the world's top six that Whiley has beaten since last summer.
In July she beat Frenchwoman Florence Alix-Gravellier to reach the semi-finals of the British Open when Alix-Gravellier was world ranked No 5. Whiley then beat Dutch player Aniek van Koot to reach the final of November's Nottingham Indoor. Van Koot was also then world ranked No 6 and Whiley went on to win that tournament to earn her first world top ten ranking.
Whiley was the only Briton in action on the second day of play at the ITF 1 Series Sydney International. Jamie Burdekin had a rest day in the quad singles, having already reached the semi-finals, with Whiley also already in the semi-finals of the women's doubles.
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