Krejčíková – Siniaková 6: 3, 6: 0, Hard lesson from Krejčíková! The French Open champion trained her doubles partner

Barbora Krejčíková during the match with Kateřina Siniaková

Vít Šimánek, ČTK

Long-term doubles partners Krejčíková and Siniaková played against each other in singles at the WTA circuit. “It’s hard that we have to compete against each other like this and one of us has to lose. But I’m glad I won because I wanted to win. But I’m sorry Katka, because I always wish her the best,” she commented on the unpleasant derby for Česká television Krejčíková.

The thirteenth player in the world rankings did not maintain a 3: 1 lead in the first set, but from 3: 3 onwards, she did not even allow the Siniaks to play. “I don’t think it was completely for one goal or in one gam. The first set was important. I calmed down, I started to swing more and play better. Katka was worried about the service, on the contrary, I was doing well this time after yesterday,” said Krejčíková, which has won the eighteenth of the last nineteen matches.

Kateřina Siniaková during the quarterfinal match with Barbora Krejčíková

Vít Šimánek, ČTK

Since the May tournament in Strasbourg, she has been beaten only by world number one and later Wimbledon champion Ashleigh Barty in the round of 16 of the London tournament. Krejčíková’s next opponent in the semifinals will be nineteen-year-old Chinese woman Wang Sin-jü.

“I don’t know her very well. I know she’s young, quite tall. She has good service, she plays forehand and backhand. After two months of going from one match to another, I think my form is going down, it’s hard to keep up. “I’m more or less just fighting and I’m really trying to play every balloon as if it were the last one,” Krejčíková added.

Martincová also ruled

Martincová wasted the lead 2: 0 in the first set, allowed the opponent to equalize, but then she did not lose a game. In the second set, on the other hand, the 26-year-old Czech lost 0: 2, but with six successful games in a row, she reached the winning end.

“It’s great. I never did well in Prague, it tied me up here and the performances were crazy. The semifinals at home are really great for me, it’s completely different than in any other tournament,” Martincová said in an interview on the court.

Martincová advanced to the fourth semifinal on the WTA circuit and will strive for the first final participation in her career. Her opponent will be the ninth seed Greetje Minnen from Belgium, whom she defeated in two sets last year in the only mutual match so far.

Tsitsipas shocked

The fourth world player Stefanos Tsitsipas lost in the quarterfinals of the tournament in Hamburg to the Serb Filip Krajinovič. The Greek tennis player confirmed the role of the number one only in the first set, which he won 6: 3. He lost the other two sets 1: 6 and 3: 6. For the third time in his career, Krajinovič defeated a player from the top ten in the world and for the first time in the season he reached the semifinals of the ATP tournament.

After the first five games, when he lost 0: 5, there was no indication. But then he won nine of the other eleven games and gained the upper hand. He relied on quality service, winning three-quarters of the exchanges after the first serve. “He started really well, very aggressively. I couldn’t find my game, my service, he pushed me. But at the end of the first set I started to feel better and I went for it. In the end it paid off,” Krajinovič commented on the turn in the match. .

In the semifinals, his compatriot Laslo Djere awaits him, beating twice twice 6: 2 the third seeded Nikolaos Basilashvili from Georgia.