The 26-year-old from Vorarlberg benefited from the resignation of the top seeded Italian Martina Trevisan at a score of 6:3. Austria’s currently best tennis player was already 1:3 behind in the first round. Günter Bresnik’s protégé will now face either number six seeded Julia Putinzewa from Kazakhstan or Julia Riera from Argentina in the semifinals on Friday.
“Of course it’s a shame that we couldn’t finish the game, but it was a good performance so far, which gives me more self-confidence,” said Grabher in a Facebook post. “This puts me in the top four for the first time on the WTA Tour, I’m really happy about it and I’m highly motivated for tomorrow. Anything is possible!”
Grabher has secured 110 WTA points and gross prize money of $11,275. In the live ranking she improved to 66th place and she will definitely improve on her best ranking so far, which is the current 74th. In any case, she is in good form a few days before the start of the French Open, which was drawn in the afternoon. It will be her debut in the main draw at Roland Garros.
Grabher settled from an early service loss to 1: 2 against the world number 26. don’t get flustered. On the contrary. She converted a 1:3 deficit to 6:3 in the first set. The Dornbirn woman clearly took her opponent’s serves to 3:3 and 5:3 to zero and 15 and used the second set ball to take the lead. Shortly thereafter, her opponent threw in the towel.
2023-05-25 12:42:00
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