The highest seed Daria Kasatkina has reached the ultimate of the Korea Open tennis match.
Kasatkina, world No. 13 from Russia, defeated countrywoman Diana Shnaider 6-3, 6-4 within the semifinals of the lone WTA occasion in Korea at Olympic Park Tennis Heart in Seoul on Saturday.
In Sunday’s last, Kasatkina will face Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, No. 3 seed and world No. 17. Haddad Maia knocked off Veronika Kudermetova of Russia within the semifinals 6-4, 6-4.
This can be Kasatkina’s fifth last of the season. She has one title this season and 7 titles general.
Haddad Maia will go for her first title of the season and her fourth general.
Haddad Maia holds a 2-1 edge in three conferences towards Kasatkina, however of their most up-to-date assembly, the Russian beat the Brazilian in three units within the semifinals in Abu Dhabi in February.
With all Friday matches washed out by rain in Seoul, gamers needed to play within the quarterfinals early Saturday afternoon after which the 4 winners performed their semifinal matches later the identical day.
Within the quarterfinals, Haddad Maia defeated Veronika Kudermetova’s sister, Polina, 6-2, 6-1.
Kasatkina confronted Emma Raducanu of Britain, the 2021 U.S. Open champion and a crowd favourite in Seoul, within the quarterfinals. The marquee match of the quarterfinals resulted in simply half an hour as Raducanu, after dropping the primary set 6-1, retired as a consequence of a foot damage.
The Korea Open, the one WTA occasion held in South Korea every fall, has been elevated from WTA 250, the bottom degree of tour occasions, to WTA 500 for this 12 months, that means the champion will earn 500 world rating factors. The purse has been raised from about $260,000 to $1 million.
Kasatkina turned the highest seed right here after 4 top-10 gamers — No. 1 Iga Swiatek, No. 3 Jessica Pegula, No. 4 Elena Rybakina and No. 8 Emma Navarro — pulled out for well being and scheduling causes. (Yonhap)