Tennis star IGA Swiatek shows an impressive performance in the semi-finals of the Bad Homburg Open and gives her also a strongly assessed competitor no chance.
The five-time Grand Slam tournament winner IGA Swiatek is in the final of the Bad Homburg Open. The Polish won the Wimbledon Finalist Jasmine Paolini from Italy in the semi-finals unexpectedly 6: 1, 6: 3 after an impressive idea. Swiatek has the great chance on Saturday to celebrate her first professional title on lawn.
In the final of the tennis tournament on Saturday (1.30 p.m.), the former world ranking lists meets the American Jessica Pegula. The player with the high -class lawn event at 6: 7 (2: 7), 7: 5, 6: 1 against the Czech Linda Noskova had a lot more difficult. Pegula just turns semi-finals off.
Pegula convinces in the crunchtime
The powerful surcharge of Noskova in particular caused Pegula big problems for a long time. In the meantime, the world number third was 6: 7, 3: 5, but in the decisive phase of the second set and in the third set, Pegula hardly made any avoidable mistakes.
The WTA event in Bad Homburg is endowed with a good million US dollars and the dress rehearsal for the classic lawn in Wimbledon, which begins on Monday. The only two German players in the main field, Tatjana Maria and Laura Siegemund, were already eliminated in the first round.
