Buzkova
On February 27, Beijing time, WTA Guadalajara station ended two semi-final matches, and Czech good Uzkova and No. 6 seed Stephens met in the women's singles final. China's Jinhua Wang Qiang lost 3-6, 3-6 to Buzkova in the women's singles semifinals, and the whole match took 1.5 hours.
'I was expecting it to be a tough game. Buzkova said after the game, "I was ready for a hard fight, and there would be a lot of long rounds to play with her. I knew she was a tough opponent, so I told myself to keep going, and in the end I played a quality game and I was looking forward to tomorrow's final. ”
Wang Qiang
With the final four of Guadalajara, Wang Qiang was able to qualify for the women's singles competition at Monterrey next week through SE (special finalist right). After harvesting 110 points, Wang Qiang will further approach the top 100 in the world ranking next week, and her current world ranking is 144.
This is the third time in her career that Buzkova has reached the Tour women's singles final, she has lost in the first two finals, and she will attack her first career title tomorrow, and her opponent in the final will be former US Open champion Stephens.
Stephens advanced to the women's singles final by receiving a retirement salute from his opponent 3-6, 7-5 in the semi-finals against Russian teenager Karinskaya. At one point, Karinskaya took the lead in one set and had the advantage of two breaks in the second set, but the Russian suffered back pain in the middle of the second set, Stephens seized the opportunity to counterattack and equalize the score 7-5, and Karinskaya had no choice but to retire after the second set.
"All I can do in the game is keep fighting and fighting for every point." Stephens said after the game, "Obviously today's game was very tough because she was very good, I was always behind in the game and I was happy to be able to stick with it and win the second set. ”
This is the tenth time in her career that Stephens has reached the Women's Singles Final on the Tour, and the first time the Americans have reached the Final since the end of 2018, and regardless of Stephens' performance in the final, her ranking will return to the TOP50 next week.
(Text, Editor/Faye Wong, Photo/Visual China)