Angelique Kerber After losing in the Cincinnati Tennis Championships, he entered the semi-finals. The 33-year-old took the lead in a duel between two former Wimbledon champions against Petra Kvitova 6:4 and 3:3 on Friday, when the sick Czech could no longer play .
This Saturday’s semi-final against the world No. 1 Ashley Barty Retaliation from Australia’s Wimbledon semi-final defeat. Barty had previously defeated the French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova (Barbora Krejcikova) from the Czech Republic with a score of 6:2, 6:4. At Wimbledon in July, on the way to the championship, she defeated Cobb, who had reached the finals twice in Cincinnati.
Massage the abdomen
Compare two left-handed women with Kvitova In the first set, Kober broke serve with 5:4. Although she missed a set kick due to a double error, Kvitova helped her as before and made some small mistakes. The 31-year-old took a 3-0 lead in the second set, but seemed uncomfortable in the midday heat. Even after Kerber was connected to 2:3, the treatment was interrupted and Kvitova was carefully massaged in the abdominal area, which no longer helped.
“I don’t want to win a tournament like this. I hope she can recover as soon as possible and get ready for the US Open,” Kerber said, but overall she is happy with her performance in the hard court tournament, the prize money for this event. Up to 1.8 million US dollars. “It’s a great feeling to return to the semifinals because you have to play your best tennis,” she said a week and a half before the US Open in New York.
In the Parallel Men’s Masters, Alexander Zverev will meet Caspar Rudd from Norway in the quarter-finals on Saturday night, who is ranked 11th in the world rankings.
