World number one and Australian Open champion Ashleigh Barty set up a ninth career meeting with two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova at the Qatar Open on Thursday. Barty saw off Spain-s Garbine Muguruza 6-1, 6-7 4/7, 6-2 in her quarter-final in windy and chilly conditions in Doha.

"I felt like I started exceptionally well and I was able to get the ball kind of in my areas a lot more," said the Australian top seed. "Then in the second set Garbine was able to shift her court position and take a few more risks, put me on the back foot. It was frustrating, I felt like I wasn-t doing a lot wrong but I wasn-t making the most of my opportunities and wasn-t getting opportunities.