July 30, 2024; Paris, France; Elina Svitolina (UKR) during a tennis match in the third round against Barbora Krejcikova (Cze) at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games at Stade Roland Garros. Compulsory credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn images Aryna Sabalenka, the world No. 1, will try to win his first Porsche Tennis Grand Prix during his fourth attempt on Monday in Stuttgart, Germany.
She reached the final for the fourth time in five years on Sunday with a 7-5, 6-4 victory in the semi-finals against the seeded n ° 5 Jasmine Paolini of Italy in an hour, 35 minutes.
The two players took 3-0 lead in the two sets – Sabalenka in the first and Paolini in the second. Paolini retaliated even for the match at 5-5 and served with a chance to win the first set, but Sabalenka broke the service and served for the set.
In the second set, it was Sabalenka, from Bélarus, who made the head disappear. And she broke the Italian – in service at 4-4 – then served the match.
In the final, Sabalenka will meet Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia, who bounced Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 6-4, 6-4 in the other semi-final. Sabalenka has a 3-0 career file against Ostapenko, including a Clay-Court match in Rome last season.
Ostapenko won the 2017 France Open – his only Grand Chelem title in career – on the Roland Garros clay courts in Paris. Sabalenka, who won three majors, never passed the semi-finals at the Open of France.
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The seeded n ° 1 Elina Svitolina, from Ukraine, continued to show his strength on Clay, beating the head of N ° 3 Olga Danilovic from Serbia 6-4, 7-6 (8) to win the championship on Sunday in Rouen, in France.
It was the 18th career title for Svitolina – the seventh on Clay – and the first since May 2023. She needed a little less than two hours to defeat Danilovic from Serbia, but had to save two section points in the equal break to have a chance to win her fourth match.
Svitolina played in 22 WTA finals in a career, losing only four times. She hasn’t lost a set all week.
– field level media