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Friday saw both the quarter-finals and semi-finals being played at the Bett1 Open after rain washed out Thursday’s scheduled play. As a result, the players had to pull double duty to potentially try and reach Sunday’s final.
In the end, the singles final in the German WTA 500 event was set between Petra Kvitova and Donna Vekic. In the quarter-final, Kvitova, the seventh seed, got through third seed Caroline Garcia. The Czech left-hander needed an hour and 54 minutes to complete a 6-4, 7-6(3) win over the French player.
The first set was the only set when the players dropped their serve. There was a brief exchange of breaks in the set before Kvitova secured a second break to go up in the match. She didn’t face any break point in the second set but was also unable to convert any of the seven break points that came her way on Garcia’s serve.
Vekic, in her last-eight match, posted a 6-2, 7-6(0) win over Elina Avanesyan in 93 minutes.
Bett1 Open: Petra Kvitova, Donna Vekic outlast their rivals
The other two quarter-finalists who entered the semi-finals were Ekaterina Alexandrova and sixth seed Maria Sakkari.
Alexandrova was, in fact, the first to…
