Estonia Annet Kontaveit qualified for the Doha final, the second in a row after winning the St. Petersburg final, after defeating Latvian Jelena Ostapenko 6-1, 6-4 in the semifinals.
The fourth seed did not give her rival options, who yesterday left out the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza and last week had won in Dubai, and won the match after one hour and 9 minutes in which he broke his rival’s service twice in the first set and twice in the second.
For its part, the Polish Iga Swiatek, number 8 in the world, got rid of the Greek Maria Sakkari in two sets (6-4 and 6-3) after an hour and 28 minutes of play.
The seventh favourite, who will seek what would be her first title in Doha, She was much more confident with her serve in both sets and, although she gave up three services to her rival, she managed to break the Greek’s serve five times out of the eight she hadadding the first win against her after three consecutive losses.
To do this, he added twenty winners to the nine of Sakkari, which allowed him to add his seventh victory of his career against a top-10and the second in a row, since in the quarterfinals she eliminated the first seed, Aryna Sabalenka.