Today on Tennis Channel: Alycia Parks plays the biggest semifinal of her career in Monterrey

American Alycia Parks will play the biggest semifinal of her career in Monterrey.

Parks will play her third and biggest WTA semifinal on Friday at the WTA 500 event, her first two both coming at WTA 250s—at Linz in 2023, where she went on to capture the title, and at Auckland at the beginning of this year, where she fell to Naomi Osaka in the final four. The big-serving 24-year-old is now a win away from her biggest final. Whatever happens from here on out, this week has been the perfect preparation for her for the US Open, where she'll face Mirra Andreeva in the first round.

Parks' opponent today, Diana Shnaider, just pulled off a quarterfinal comeback to remember.

The world No. 22 survived world No. 21 Elise Mertens in her quarterfinal match on Thursday, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (4), not only coming back from 5-1 down in the third set, but fighting off a total of five match points during the grueling three-hour encounter. She's now a win away from her sixth WTA final, and her second at the WTA 500 level. Shnaider leads Parks in their head-to-head, 2-1, and they're 1-1 this year, with Parks prevailing in Doha and Shnaider getting revenge a few weeks later at Indian Wells.

👉 Stream WTA Monterrey here.

Sebastian Korda will try to reach the milestone 10th ATP final of his career at Winston-Salem.

The American stormed past Miomir Kecmanovic in the quarterfinals on Thursday, 6-1, 6-4, to move safely into the semifinals in his first tournament since Roland Garros, having been out for the last two and a half months due to a stress fracture in his right shin. Now, he's a win away from his 10th ATP final, and he'll take on a familiar face in Marton Fucsovics. The two met twice in the summer of 2023, with Korda winning right here in Winston-Salem in straight sets before the Hungarian got revenge just days later in a five-setter in the first round of the US Open.

👉 Stream ATP Winston-Salem here.

Parks and Korda aren't the only Americans trying to reach finals today—there's also Ann Li in Cleveland.

Li has battled through back-to-back three-setters in her last two rounds—against countrywoman Iva Jovic and Frenchwoman Elsa Jacquemot—to reach the semifinals of the WTA 250 event, and now she'll try to reach the fifth WTA final of her career, and second of the year after finishing runner-up to Mertens in Singapore in February. Up next for the 25-year-old American will be China's Wang Xinyu, the No. 2 seed this week.

Fan favorite Sorana Cirstea is also into the final four in Cleveland after a renaissance week.

The former world No. 21, who's been working her way back up the rankings this year following foot surgery last year, is through to the semifinals as a No. 112-ranked qualifier, and she hasn't even lost a set this week—including in her stunning 6-4, 6-1 upset over top seed Liudmila Samsonova in the quarterfinals. Standing between the Romanian and her first WTA final in more than four years will be Anastasia Zakharova.

👉 Stream WTA Cleveland here.