Quarter-final day and not only in WTA 250 in Bad Homburg on German grass. Not only all the quarterfinals scheduled, but also the conclusion of the eighth-final between Anna Blinkova and Beatriz Haddad Maia that was interrupted yesterday.
Rain interrupted the program more than once on this occasion too, but in the end the Russian managed to win with a score of 6-3, 7-5 in an hour and three quarters. A nice comeback especially in the second set for Blinkova who scored five consecutive games from 2-5, avoiding reaching the third set and saving some energy in view of the quarter-final to face Viktoriya Tomova.
The victory of the young Russian was also surprising Diana Schneider who beat Paula Badosa 6-3, 7-6(3). The world number 47 won the first set with four consecutive games from 2-3 and in the second set she managed the tiebreak well after missing a match point on 6-5 30-40. She will face in the semifinals Emma Navarro who came back from a set down to Caroline Wozniacki, then the Dane retired at the start of the third set: 4-6, 6-1, 1-0. Bad fall for the former world number 1 who decided not to continue the match.
On the other side of the scoreboard the Croatian continues without playing Woman Vekic due to Katerina Siniakova’s withdrawal before the match: the Czech withdraws due to a hip problem and as a precaution before Wimbledon, being just a few days away from the London Slam. The day ended with the splendid victory of Tomova with Blinkova with the score 2-6, 6-1, 7-6(9) canceling a whopping five match points.
