the Estonian kaia kaninumber 37 in the WTA ranking, and the Russian Lyudmila Samsonovanumber 60, won their respective semifinal duels against the Australian this Saturday Daria Saville (n.88) and the Chinese Xiyu Wang (n.95), and met in the final of the tennis tournament in Washington.
Neither player was in a hurry to get past the semi-finals and both matches lasted just over an hour.
Kanepi sealed the tenth final of her career on the WTA circuit by beating Saville 6-3, 6-1 in one hour and six minutes, who heading into this round had beaten American Jessica Pegula, top seed
The Estonian player already has 19 wins this year and has not achieved this many in the last nine years. In addition, he has not reached the semifinal since Melbourne 2021.
She will fight this Sunday for the title against Samsonova, who dispatched Wang in just one hour and three minutes, winning the doubles 6-1.
The physical problems of Wang, who had to ask for a medical break at the start of the second set, did not detract from a Samsonova who beat Belgium’s Elise Mertens, Australia’s Alja Tomljianovic and Britain’s Emma Raducanu this week.
This final represents the best result of his career on the fast surface, where he reached the semi-finals in Courmayeur and Luxembourg 2021.
He will fight this Sunday for the second title of his career, after Berlin 2021.
Samsonova and Kanepi have only met once, with the Russian winning 6-4 6-2 at the 2021 Wimbledon tournament.
Source: La Verdad
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