The 120th player in the world rankings was not an easy opponent for the French Open winner. In the first set, she had to deal with her hard blows. And she won the set 7: 6 in a tie-break. “It was difficult. I didn’t play my best tennis, but I’m glad I managed to fight it,” she admitted after the match.
In the second set, it already looked like a clear ride to the quarterfinals. Krejčíková quickly led 4: 0, but then the service started to bother her and the Belgian woman got up. At 5: 2 for the Czech player, she averted three Krejčíková sword balls. She then allowed her opponent to reduce to 4: 5, but she changed her hand and used the fourth match. “I don’t know why I couldn’t serve,” Krejčíková said, adding that she would have to discuss it with the coach.
And how does the second seeded player of the tournament see the upcoming duel with Siniakova? “Even if Bára is on the other side, I will want to show the best performance again. We’ll see,” Siniak said. “It will be difficult because we know each other and wish each other. I’m looking forward and hope we enjoy it. It’s great that we met and one of us will be in the semifinals. It will be nice for the audience to come on Saturday to look at one of us, “Krejčíková said after the match for Czech Television.
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Siniaková and Smitková, who share more than 400 places in the world rankings, played a three-hundred-match match together on the WTA circuit for the third time. The favored Olympian Siniaková also went on, even though she did not succeed at all in the introductory set, and in the second she even had to avert the match ball at 5: 6 when she was served.
“It wasn’t the best tennis on my part, there were a lot of mistakes in the first set. But I kept trying to play and fight and in the end it paid off,” Siniaková breathed in a TV interview, who may come across her doubles partner Barbora Krejčíková in the quarterfinals. . “I’m going to have to improve a lot,” she said.
In more than a two-hour match, Siniak helped her opponent with 13 double mistakes. “I’m sorry about the match, but it can be seen that I can still play with the better ones and I have a chance,” said the defeated Smitková, a former eight-finalist at Wimbledon.
On Wednesday, before the evening deterioration of the weather, Tereza Martincová, the eighth seed, advanced to the quarterfinals, in the next round on the hard surface in Stromovka, she will meet Viktória Kužmová in Slovakia.
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