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Diane Parry in the quarters in Monastir after abandonment

Diane Parry will not have had to draw on her physical reserves to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA 250 tournament on hard courts in Monastir since her opponent, the Italian Lucrezia Stefanini, was forced to retire on Wednesday at the very start. of the second set (6-3, 1-0, ab.).

The 24-year-old Italian, 152nd in the WTA and from qualifying in Tunisia, injured her left thigh and could no longer run normally. Previously, she had been put in very great difficulty on her second service ball, behind which Diane Parry had won 92% of the points disputed (11/12, including 5 double faults).

A fourth quarter in three months

Parry (20, 65th WTA) thus earned his place for what will be the fourth quarter-final of his career on the main circuit; the fourth in less than three months, after those lost in Palermo and Portoroz and the one won in Granby, just before the US Open.

She will face the winner of the second round on Friday, which will pit Polish Magdalena Frech (120th) against Russian Veronika Kudermetova (12th), seeded No. 2 in the tournament, behind local star Ons Jabeur.

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