Danish Clara Tauson continues to impress in the chinese Shenzhen, where she has just played in the semifinals of the tournament, which has a total prize pool of almost 400.000 kroner.
It is the largest so far seniorturnering, she’s trying out.
After his impressive victory over slovakken Jana Cepelova, the 16-year-old K. B.’is in the quarterfinals up against the Polish Magdalena Fręch. The five-year-older opponent is right now the world no. 176, and had been utterly sovereign in his first two matches in Shenzhen.
Dane could stretch their arms after a nerve-racking tresætter and win at 7-5, 0-6, 6-3.
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the Dane took a ciffermæssigt close first set 7-5, but she was never threatened in a private serv where she is on an impressive show only made a handful of points. In turn, pushed she all the time in the polakkens serv, and it deteriorating so much that sætbolden was triggered by a double faults.
in turn, started the Clara Tauson second set of the dirt. She was broken for 0-1 and gave up, apparently, to provide much resistance – maybe to save gunpowder with the two and a half hour long match the day before in the back of the head and the legs.
She was also broken for 0-3 and 0-5 before after only fifteen minutes of the game got an egg.
Clara Tauson threw apparently the second set to save power to the third, and it proved to be a wise rate. Photo: Roger Parker
Then she took again a firm grip on the racket and opened the third set with a clean serveparti, before she is on her second breakbold broke his opponent’s serve.
After the dane had servet at 3-0, followed a long and close party, where she also had breakbold to 4-0, but Frech had hauled the lot home and reduced.
She also held serve for 4-2, and then got Clara Tauson problems in his serve, after which Magdalena Frech bread clean back.
The young challenger, however, was quickly shaken minikrisen and broke for 5-3 in its first breakbold, and so she could serve the victory on his second match point.
In the semifinals, she met the 29-year-old chinese Jia-Jing Lu, the world number 186, and may be considered to be the favorite at home. But it kind of has the Danish favoritdræber therefore ignored until now.
the Other day, called her father and coach, Søren Tauson, it is as crazy to dream of semi-finals and the final.
With the victory and they are now a total of 29 points crawling Clara Tauson further up on the WTA’s world rankings, and is approaching the Top 500.
New live WTA ranking for Clara Tauson. pic.twitter.com/pyDcqbCWzV
— Mark Nixon (@markalannixon) 15. march 2019
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