28 April 2019
The top seed’s withdrawal gives her opponent Anett Kontaveit a walkover and the Estonian goes through to today’s final where she will face the Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova. The two-times Grand Slam champion had pulled off an epic comeback from 1-5 down in the final set on Friday when she beat Croatian Donna Vekic 6-3 4-6 7-6 despite struggling on the clay surface, making 45 unforced errors.
Bertens then saved set points on her serve, preventing Kvitova from breaking her, to take the first set into a tiebreak. But Kvitova controlled proceedings to win the decider.
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