WTA: Favorite final in Transylvania, Tauson in the final of Courmayeur
At the WTA Tour 250 event in Cluj-Napoca, Simona Halep and Anett Kontaveit are the two top seeded women in the final. In the Italian Alps, Carla Tausson and Donna Vekic compete for the tournament victory.
by tennisnet.com
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Oct 30, 2021, 08:34 pm
Local hero Simona Halep and Anett Kontaveit are in the final of the indoor hard court event in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. While the Estonians took the Swedish Rebecca Peterson 6: 3, 6: 2 out of the competition, the former number one in the women's world eliminated the sixth seeded Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk with 6: 1, 6: 0. Kostyuk had duped this year's US Open winner Emma Raducanu 6: 2, 6: 1 in the quarter-finals on Friday.
For Halep it is the first final in 2021, she could win her third tournament on home soil - in 2014 and 2016 she won the trophy at the clay court tournament in Bucharest. Kontaveit is prolonging her remarkable run, the Baltic woman has won 25 of her last 27 games and has made it into the final four times in her last seven tournament appearances. Should Kontaveit win tomorrow's final, she would take the last available seat for the WTA finals in Guadalajara. The endeavor will not be easy, however, as Halep clearly leads 3-0 in direct encounters.
Premiere in the Italian Alps
Women's top tennis will also be played this week in Courmayeur, Italy. There Donna Vekic and Clara Tauson face each other in tomorrow's final. While the 18-year-old Dane had to work hard for her 4: 6, -7: 6 (8), - 6: 4 success over the three seeded Russian Liudmila Samsonova over 2:27 hours, the Croatian sat easily and easily 6: 2, 6: 0 against the seventh local hero Jasmine Paolini.
The final at the 250cc hard court event in the Italian Alps is a premiere. Tauson and Vekic have never faced each other on the WTA Tour level. Both players already have two tournament successes on their accounts. While the lady from Copenhagen was able to celebrate both titles this year (Lyon, Luxembourg), the South Slavic woman was victorious in Kuala Lumpur in 2014 and in Nottingham in 2017.