Siniaková is waiting for the quarterfinals, Kvitová also plays in the evening

Petra Kvitová in action

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Despite the fact that the twelfth player in the ranking, Petra Kvitová, had weaker opponents on paper in previous rounds, in both cases she decided the final result up to the third set. The first match with Polka Piterová had to turn from 4: 6 after the first set. In the second match, she met the American Li, whom she lost in the tiebreak of the second set.

The Czech two competed with Argentina only once during the tournament in Melbourne this year. Podoroská was more successful on the hard surface, which surprised and defeated Kvitová 2: 1 in sets.

If both Czechs did well, they could face each other in the final of the tournament.

Azarenka did not enter the quarterfinals due to injury

Former world number one Belarus Viktoria Azarenkova did not enter the quarterfinals of the tennis tournament in Bad Homburg due to injury.

The Spaniard Sara Sorribesová advanced to the semifinals without a fight, for whom participation in the top eight was the biggest success on the grass so far. Her next opponent may be Kateřina Siniaková, who is waiting for a match with the home team with Laura Siegemundová.

Petra Kvitová, number one, will also play for the semifinals, with Nadia Podoroská from Argentina as her opponent. Rain Homburg is not playing today.

Macháč will not play Wimbledon, Smitková is missing another win

Twenty-year-old Czech tennis player Tomáš Macháč has to wait for the premiere start at Wimbledon. In the last round of qualifying for the grass grand slam he was not enough for the Australian Christopher O’Connell and only Jiří Veselý will complete the men’s singles in the All England Club. The last win separates Tereza Smitková, a sensational Wimbledon eight-finalist from 2014.

Macháč did not win a set against O’Connell and lost all three in which the final round of qualifying is played. The Australian won 7: 6, 6: 4 and 7: 6.

Twenty-six-year-old Smitková took the second of three steps to advance by winning 7: 6 and 6: 3 over the Austrian Barbara Haasová. Wang Sin-yu will play for the place in the main competition. “It’s definitely a great motivation for those who wouldn’t want to be there,” Smitková told the Tennis World, who had a life tournament at the All England Club seven years ago and also advanced to the round of 16.

“If you qualify here in Roehampton, then the main club is a reward. I’d like to get there,” added the tennis player who last played the main grand slam competition three years ago.

Giorgio acquired a scalp from Sabalenko after Plíšková

Italian tennis player Camila Giorgio won another valuable victory at the tournament in Eastbourne after Karolína Plíšková’s scalp and eliminated the highest-ranked Aryna Sabalenková in the quarterfinals. She defeated the Belarusian favorite on the grass 7: 6, 0: 6, 6: 4 and advanced to the semifinals from the qualification. In it, he will face the Estonian Anett Kontaveit.

After the second set, it seemed that the world number four Sabalenková got the match under control, but the Italian, as in the first round against the defending champion of 2019 Plíšková, won in the end with an aggressive game. “It was a great match, at a decent level. In the end, I think it was more about the psyche than the physics,” said Giorgio, Wimbledon’s quarterfinalist from 2018. She managed to beat two players from the top ten in one tournament for the first time in her career.

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