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After a gutsy second-round win on Friday over good friend Paula Badosa the world No. 2 appeared to have little left in the tank physically, mentally or emotionally for a late night Stadium court battle with Ukrainian Kalinina.
Alcaraz became the first man to defend a championship in the California desert since Novak Djokovic won three straight between 2014 and 2016.
Sakkari got the better of US Open champion Coco Gauff in a hard-fought second semifinal.
Third seed Coco Gauff served up 17 double faults but still managed to beat China's Yuan Yue 6-4, 6-3 to reach the women's semifinals in the Californian desert for the first time.
Navarro, seeded 23rd, broke the hard-hitting Belarusian for a fourth time on match point to book a quarterfinal clash with ninth seed Maria Sakkari of Greece.
Russians and Belarusians were banned from competing internationally following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, for which Belarus has been used as a staging ground.
Karen Khachanov defeated Czech teenager Jakub Mensik to win his sixth career title at the Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha.
The 32-year-old Romanian has been provisionally suspended since October, 2022, after testing positive for roxadustat, a banned drug that stimulates the production of red blood cells, at the US Open that year.
In a recent video shared on her YouTube channel, the seven-time Grand Slam singles champion expressed her aspirations to participate in the WTA 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami, considering them 'big goals'.
While Shang fell short in his bid to become the first Chinese man to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam in the Open era, the country will have a women's singles player in the second week as 12th seed Zheng.