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A pair of unseeded gamers, Indonesia’s Janice Tjen and France’s Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah, pulled off semifinal upsets on the SP Open Saturday in Sao Paolo and can meet in Sunday’s ultimate.
Tjen took down No. 6 seed Francesca Jones of Great Britain 7-6 (0), 6-3, and Rakotomanga Rajaonah upended No. 5 seed Renata Zarazua of Mexico 6-3, 6-2 as each reached a WTA tour ultimate for the primary time.
Tjen, 23, trailed early within the first set, then broke Jones’ serve to take a 3-2 lead earlier than Jones rallied to tug even at 5-5 earlier than taking a 6-5 lead. However, Tjen bounced again to go forward 7-6 and cruised 7-0 within the tiebreaker. In the second set, Tjen broke Jones within the eighth sport for a 5-3 lead earlier than securing the win on her subsequent serve.
In the 1-hour, 32-minute match, Tjen – who served up eight aces — received roughly 90 p.c of factors on her first serve together with 58 p.c on second-serve factors.
Rakotomanga Rajaonah broke Zarazua’s serve thrice within the first set, with the third break coming after Zarazua broke again to shut inside 5-3. The 19-year-old Frenchwoman cruised within the second set, sealing the win together with her second break of the set within the 1-hour, 22-minute match. She saved 5 of six break factors, stopping Zarazua from staging a comeback.
Guadalajara Open Akron
Unseeded gamers Emiliana Arango of Colombia and Iva Jovic of the United States will compete for his or her first WTA title on Sunday in Guadalajara, Mexico, after successful their semifinal matches.
Arango posted a 6-4, 7-5 victory over fellow unseeded participant Elsa Jacquemot of France to succeed in her second WTA ultimate. Jovic defeated fellow unseeded teenager Nikola Bartunkova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-3, to advance to her first WTA ultimate.
The 24-year-old Arango trailed 4-2 within the first set and saved two break factors that will’ve given Jacquemot a 5-3 benefit. Arango broke Jacquemot’s serve to go up 5-4 earlier than closing out the set. In the second set, Arango held on within the tenth sport earlier than denying Jacquemot a degree to make it 6-5 en path to the victory within the almost two-hour match.
For Jovic, 17, it took virtually three hours to place away Bartunkova, who rallied to win the second set and pressure a decisive third set. Jovic led the second-set tiebreaker 4-0 and 5-4, however her opponent stormed again to remain alive.
In the ultimate set, Bartunkova left the courtroom for a medical timeout, however got here again to avoid wasting two match factors earlier than Jovic’s second ace of the match helped her lastly shut out the match.
–Field Level Media
