The 2022 WTA500 Dubai race continued, with the last matchday's final four matches: Ostapenko vs Halep, Kudmetova vs Vandrosova. Ostapenko reached the Final Four of the Tour Women's Singles for two consecutive weeks after defeating 2013 champion Kvitova and eliminating three consecutive Grand Slam champions (Kenning and Swatake).
Dubai is halep's 61st career in the Tour final four, with the Romanian reaching the WTA semi-finals for the first time in 2010, and only Serena Williams has advanced to the final four more times since then. Halep and Ostapenko will meet for the third time of their careers, the two previous encounters between the two sides came from the 2017 season, Ostapenko beat his opponent in the French Open final to win the first Grand Slam title; Halep took revenge in the Chinese Open and then reached the top of the world.
The game began, in the first set, Halep won five consecutive sets in the mid-set to win 6-2 first. In the second set, Ostapenko started 3-0, first chased by Halep to a 3-3 draw, and then missed two sets in Halep's serve at the end of the set, but won seven consecutive points in seven sets and won seven at 7-0 to win a set back.
The contest between the two sides came to the decisive set, in which Ostapenko completely took the initiative, won six consecutive sets to send duck eggs, won 6-0 strong, and completed the reversal to eliminate Halep. In this way, Ostapenko has passed three consecutive reversals, winning four consecutive Grand Slam winners this week and reaching the tour final after last year's Luxembourg leg. This is the 11th WTA final of latvian career, and she will be taking on an individual fifth title.
In the other semi-final, Vandrosova withdrew from the semi-finals of the Dubai leg due to injury, and Kudmetova won without a fight and directly advanced. This is the Russian's second final this season (Melbourne) and the fourth time in her career that she has reached the WTA title race. Next, she will compete with Ostapenko for the final title.