Cincinnati Open Round Up | Sania Mirza and Shuai Peng cruise to the semis; Johanna Konta sets up rematch with Simona Halep

In the women's singles section, Britain’s Johanna Konta will face off against Simona Halep once again, this time in the quarter-finals of the ongoing tournament. While the seventh seed defeated Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova 6-3 6-4 to reach the last eight for the first time, Romanian second seed Halep beat Latvian Anastasija Sevastova 6-4 6-3.

The last time these two met in the Wimbledon quarter finals, BBC television had notched up a record 7.4 million audience views, one million more than the men’s final. Following Konta’s ugly experience in the Fed Cup clash against Halep that took place back in April, where the Brit was reduced to tears on the court by the threats and intimidation she faced from the Romanian fans in the audience, their rivalry has heated up. And Halep will be looking to exact revenge after the Brit knocked her out of Wimbledon.