(Provided by Tennis World USA)
Clara Burel and Elisabetta Cocciaretto have set up the Ladies Open Lausanne finale. Both players’ semi-final matches went the distance and both needed to fight from a set down to grab the win.In her semi-final match against compatriot, Diane Parry, Burel needed two hours and 28 minutes to pocket a 4-6, 7-6(2), 6-3 victory.
Burel committed six double faults across the match. She, however, did win 66% of her first-serve points to the ninth seed’s 54%. Of the two players, it was the 90th-ranked Parry who won 58% of her second-serve points to Burel’s 43%.
Both players faced 10 break points each. Burel saved six of these while converting five break points on her opponent’s serve.This is the second time Burel’s reached the final here, in Switzerland. Two years ago, in 2021, she’d finished as the runner-up to Tamara Zidansek’s champion in this particular WTA tournament.
It was also the first time she’d made it to the final of a WTA tournament in her career.
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