The incessant rain having led to the cancellation of the day on Friday, Caroline Garcia had to swallow a heavy program on Saturday in Berlin. At best, two singles and a double. But she will only play two games: at the end of a match on pure grass, she lost in the quarter-finals of the singles against Petra Kvitova (6-4, 7-6), in 1h54 ‘.
Twice winner at Wimbledon (2011, 2014), the Czech played on her favorite surface. A surface on which she can impose the extreme quality of her left-handed service and her taste for risk-taking, from the first shot. This is the uncompromising regime that she imposed on Garcia for two sets.
Kvitova will continue against Alexandrova
After a complicated start (0-2), the Frenchwoman quickly regained her colours, to the point of winning eleven points in a row and getting back into the game (3-2). But she struggled too much on her serve, especially in terms of her ball throw, not to find herself under pressure. She thus gave up her engagement on the fourth break point in the seventh game. Intractable, Kvitova concluded the set with a shutout (6-4). The quality of service made the difference.
Garcia spent the entire second run picking up damage. She had to dismiss seven break points in four different service games. Dominated, the French did not let go. With energy, she rallied the tie-break. Moment that Kvitova chooses to take off definitively, hitting two aces, two winning services and a tremendous acceleration of a forehand along the line. At 6-3, an outside service winner gave her the semi-final, where she will face Ekaterina Alexandrova, who took advantage of Veronika Kudermetova’s package on Saturday morning.
