the American Jessica Pegula, twelfth favorite, enjoyed a simple semifinal in Thursday night’s session at the Madrid tournament, where she beat 6-3, 6-4 to a soil specialist like Swiss Jil Teichmann.
His rival in the final was the Tunisian Ons Jabeurseeded eighth, beating Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 6-3 in her semifinals.
For Pegula this was the best result of his career on clay. He is the first American to reach the final in Madrid since Serena Willimas did so in 2013before winning the title.
Pegula and Teichmann, 14 and 35 in the world, have yet to meet on either side of the track. Both face the semifinals with similar backgrounds in Madrid: their second participation, without being too prominent the first, second round for the Swiss, third for the North American.
Pegula hit more wins in the early stages and took a 3-0 lead. Although the Swiss recovered in the fifth game his lost serve in the second, he returned it in the next and began to say goodbye in the first set.
They ended it tied to involuntary mistakes, but with almost double the number of winners for Pegula.
Backed with a great down the line backhand and fearless to get ahead of the net, the American broke again at the start of the second set. Meanwhile, Teichmann can’t find his rhythm. The failures further weighed on Spanish students Beto Martín and Arantxa Parra.
Switzerland he won his next serves fairly easily and recovered the lost serve to draw 4-4. But the story of the first set was repeated and he gave it again afterwards.
Pegula, who had a match point against him in the first round and has since not lost a set throughout the tournament, extended that line and closed the collision with his serve, helped by Teichmann’s determination to drop his balls. against the network.
The New York player will choose Madrid to add a second title to the one he already won in Washington in 2019. Teichmann stays temporarily with his two achievements in 2019 in the land of Prague and Palermo
The women’s final will be played on Saturday afternoon at Caja Mágica’s ‘Manolo Santana’ central court. Jabeur and Pegula tied for two wins in their previous meetingsthe latter this year in Dubai with a comfortable win, in two sets, for the Tunisian.
Source: La Verdad
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