The first two favorites, the Latvian Jelena Ostapenkonumber one, and the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrovasecond, compete for the tournament title Linz after being deleted Anastasia Pvlyuchenkova and the Croatian Donna Vekic, respectively.
Alexandrova, who was a finalist at this event in 2018, beaten by Italian Camila Giorgi, needed nearly three hours to defeat Vekic 5-7, 7-6(4) and 7-6(6) in a conflict full of balance.
The Russian will compete in his eighth final, the first in 2024, to clinch the fifth title of his career.
She will have as her opponent Ostapenko who defeated Pavlyuchenkova without a hitch (6-2 and 6-3). Having won this year in Adelaide, the 2017 Roland Garros champion can win the eighth trophy of his career in Linz.
The player from Riga, twelfth in the world, returned to a final in Linz, defeated by the American Coco Gauff in 2019, who took seventy-five minutes to defeat the Russian, who won this event in 2015.
Source: La Verdad
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