Simona Halep has picked up right where she left off during her run to the Wimbledon title in 2019 in Birmingham this week, extending her grass-court winning streak to 10 matches in a row today with a 6-4, 6-1 quarterfinal victory over Britain's Katie Boulter.
She’s also won her last 17 sets in a row on this surface, winning 16 of those 17 sets by a scoreline of 6-4 or easier—she was pushed to a tie-break in the first set of her quarterfinal victory over Zhang Shuai at Wimbledon three years ago.
The grass-court season was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Halep missed the 2021 grass-court season—including, sadly, her title defense at the All-England Club—due to a calf injury, which also kept her out of Roland Garros.
HALEP ON GRASS SINCE START OF 2019 WIMBLEDON: 10-0
d. Sasnovich in 2019 Wimbledon 1st Rd, 6-4, 7-5
d. Buzarnescu in 2019 Wimbledon 2nd Rd, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2
d. Azarenka in 2019 Wimbledon 3rd Rd, 6-3, 6-1
d. Gauff in 2019 Wimbledon 4th Rd, 6-3, 6-3
d. Zhang in 2019 Wimbledon QFs, 7-6(4) 6-1
d. Svitolina in 2019 Wimbledon SFs, 6-1, 6-3
d. S.Williams in 2019 Wimbledon F, 6-2, 6-2
d. Tsurenko in 2022 Birmingham 1st Rd, 6-1, 6-4
d. Dart in 2022 Birmingham 2nd Rd, 6-3, 6-2
d. Boulter in 2022 Birmingham QFs, 6-4, 6-1
Halep's last loss on grass came to Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals of Eastbourne in 2019, just a few days before she would begin her run to the Wimbledon title.
Awaiting the Romanian in the semifinals will be Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia.