The quarter-finals at the WTA 250 tournament in Auckland ended today, in New Zealand. This event, which so far has not seen any shocks that can be defined as such, but which has benefited from the presence of several important names at the start both in terms of ranking and past successes.
Two of these he found himself in front of Elina Svitolina: for the Ukrainian first the Danish Caroline Wozniacki (who will also have a wild card at the Australian Open) and then the British Emma Raducanu, who nevertheless appeared in good form. 6-4 6-3 in one case, 6-7(5) 7-6(3) 6-1 in the other and reached the quarter-finals, where the Czech team fell Marie Bouzkova by 6-0 6-3. Amanda Anisimova is also a returning name: for the American, a wild card and a debut victory over the Russian veteran Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, but against Bouzkova she won only one game.
In the lower part of the scoreboard there is also the only unseeded player in the penultimate act, the Chinese Xiyu Wang, protagonist in the second round of a match that got people talking. The WTA graphics, in fact, read X. Wang and X. Wang, where the other X. Wang is Xinyu Wang, beaten in the tie-break of the third set. On the positive wave, comeback victory also over the Frenchwoman Diane Parry, who had ousted the number 3 seeding, the Ukrainian Lesia Tsurenko. 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4 the score in favor of the twenty-two year old from Taixing.
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At the top, however, so far absolute dominion of Coco Gauff, who appeared not only in good shape, but also with an evident change in the muscles noticed by almost all observers. For her 6-4 6-2 to her compatriot Claire Liu, 6-3 6-0 to the Czech Brenda Fruhvirtova, 6-1 6-1 to the now French Varvara Gracheva. The impression is that it will hardly stop.
It also respects its seeding Emma Navarro: for the number 4 seeding, a substantially clear path starting from the debut with the other Fruhvirtova, Linda, currently higher in the rankings than her sister. From the comeback in the 2-6 6-4 6-2 format no further problems, until the 6-4 6-3 against the Croatian Petra Martic. One certainty is that there will be an American in the final, the other is that, finally, Navarro has shaken off a bit too much gossip that had been spent on her account regarding the wild card. He certainly has some good tennis.
WTA 250 AUCKLAND RESULTS 2024
Quarter finals
Gauff (USA) [1]-Gracheva (FRA) [8] 6-1 6-1
Navarro (USA) [4]- Martic (CRO) [7] 6-4 6-3
Xiyu Wang (CHN)-Parry (FRA) 6-7(3) 6-3 6-4
Svitolina (UKR) [2]-Bouzkova (CZE) [5] 6-0 6-3
Photo: LaPresse
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2024-01-05 11:13:27
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