the WTA finals Would be in Shenzhen, China, a Casino, a sizable Jackpot would be in every game. Already in the preliminary round games, the difference between victory and defeat 305 000 dollars, which is why it is not surprising that one or the other of the final participants of the nerve. The rail on Tuesday for Belinda Bencic and Petra Kvitova to apply, providing a changing and exciting, but also of errors-influenced game.
in The end it was the 22-year-old Swiss, who remained cool. They fought back in the third set up a break ball to the 3:5 and won shortly after 1:47 hours 6:3, 1:6, 6:4. “I’m mega happy. It was my goal to win at least one game,” said the world number 7, after the victory over the number 6, your only the second in the sixth duel with the left-handed. “For me, it is enormously difficult to play against Petra, because she served strongly and I don’t have a rhythm there. But I could of blocked their blows and kept his nerve, I am very proud of.”
Osaka out, Bertens in
Because Naomi Osaka exit because of a shoulder injury from the tournament, after she has won the starting match against Kvitova, the chances for Bencic to reach the semi-finals, again very good. She beats on Thursday, the Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens, the nachrutschte for Osaka as a substitute, it is qualified. However, it has the Dutchwoman in three duels never beat. And Bertens started on Tuesday with a victory over Barty into the tournament after she was back with a set and a Break.
Kvitiova, the two-time Wimbledon champion from the Czech Republic and at the age of 29, the oldest player in the field, had worked at the beginning of something stronger than Bencic and came in the seventh Game as a first to a break ball. Bencic fought him off and profited on by a sudden weakening of the Czech Republic, who won up to the end of the sentence little more of a point and four Games in a row lost.
The Ostschweizerin not managed as in the first group match against Ashleigh Barty but also against Kvitova, the momentum of the win rate take. Unlike against the Australian it was not but this time the left heel, the made to create your. From the beginning everything went for you in this passage is simply wrong. You had to take two Breaks, and also the encouragement of her father, Ivan, at 0:3 brought no improvement. Bencic seemed to be impatient, unfocused, and irritated and had to leave Kvitova, the passage in only 29 minutes.
In the third, she went twice with a Break in the lead (2:1 and 3:2), but then lost yourself on their serve games and fell back to 3:4. But now, you showed your class and your fighting spirit. She compensated for to 4:4 and grabbed it with a Backhand-return winner of her third break chance of the 5:4. She was 40:0 in the lead. The first two Matchälle was able to fend off Kvitova still with the winners, the third a serve winner Bencic brought the redeeming point. And, even, more 305 000 dollars, which has this week already 610 000 (and 500 WTA-points) to secure even if you should lose against Bertens.
Created: 29.10.2019, 16:02 Uhr
