Diane Parry (84th in the world) and Clara Burel (90th), who won the quarter-finals on Friday, will be opposed in the last four of the WTA 250 tournament on clay in Lausanne, where the presence of a Tricolor in the final is therefore certain.
Diane Parry stifled her compatriot Alizé Cornet (70th) 6-3, 6-2 and will taste the semi-final of a WTA 250 tournament for the second time.
Parry, 20, had started timidly, letting her 13-year-old eldest steal her serve from the start to lead 3 games to 0. But once freed, the young player imposed her pace, pushing Cornet behind her baseline thanks to his powerful topspin, inflicting a stinging 10-0 to win the first set 6-3 and lead 4-0 in the second.
Despite a jump from Cornet, finalist in Lausanne in 2019, who came out with her head from the water to come back to 4-2 and get a 4-3 ball on opposing service, Parry finally won against a player who complaining at the end of the game of the abdominals. She will find the joy of a semi-final of a WTA 250 tournament almost a year after her first, in August 2022 in Granby, Canada.
His opponent will be Clara Burel, finalist of the tournament in 2021 and semi-finalist this year at the Strasbourg 250 tournament, who qualified for the last four benefiting from the abandonment of the Romanian Ana Bogdan (39th) while the score was 6-3, 1-0 in favor of the Frenchwoman.
Bogdan, back to 3 games all after being down 3-0, had already burst into tears in her chair at the change of sides at 4-3 before heading to the locker room for a “medical evaluation”, in the words of the referee of chair.
Parry and Burel will be opposed for the second time on the circuit. Their only face-to-face to date had narrowly turned to Burel’s advantage, in the first round of qualifying for the Madrid tournament in the spring of 2022.
