The french Fiona Ferro rallied and defeated 2-6, 6-2 and 7-5 this Saturday to the Italian number one Camila Giorgi and it was classified for the final of the Palermo Ladies Open tournament, in which the danish Anett Kontaveit, who won the Croatian Petra Martic, first favorite, in the other semifinal.
Ferro, 23 years old and number 53 in the ranking, needed two hours and seven minutes to defeat Giorgi, number 89, and will fight in the final for which would be the second title of his career, after Lausanne 2019.
The French player I reached the semifinal without losing a set in the Sicilian tournament and after eliminating Sara Errani in the quarterfinals, double champion on clay at this event, but Giorgi took him to the limit and only gave up in the deciding set, 7-5.
The Italian, who had saved two match balls in the quarters final against the Ukrainian Dayan Yastremska in a finished battle after 1:00 in the Italian morning, he won with a resounding 6-2 the first round this Saturday, but Ferro managed to turn the duel around.
He returned 6-2 in the second set and, in the decisive quarter, broke Giorgi's serve in the third game (2-1) to escape to 5-4. There, he failed his first option to serve for the game, but got another opportunity at 6-5 and he did seal the ticket for the final.
Your rival will be lto estonia Anett Kontaveit, fourth seed, who defeated Croatian Petra Martic, first seed, 6-2, 6-4 this Saturday, and was planted in the final of the Palermo tournament, which marks the return of WTA tennis after more than five months of sanitary break.
On the clay of Palermo, Kontaveit, number 22 in the ranking, took revenge for the defeat that Martic inflicted on him earlier this year in the Dubai rooms and he beat him in one hour and 19 minutes to play his first final of the year this Sunday.
The 24-year-old Danish player started the match strong, which was attended by about 300 spectators, and won the first quarter 6-2 without conceding bankruptcies. He only offered a break ball in Game 7 when he was leading 4-2, but canceled it and put the win on track in the first set.
There was more fight in the second set, in which Martic immediately got a break. However, the Croatian player barely had 46% of first aces and he paid for his lack of shine with two consecutive bankruptcies that ended his chances of coming back.
Kontaveit, winner of a WTA tournament in her career, in Bolduque (Hertogenbosch) 2017, You will have an unbeatable opportunity to enrich your record this Sunday.