DUBAI - Elena Rybakina will play her fourth final of the season after a 7-6 , 7-6 defeat of Petra Martic on Friday at the Dubai Championships.
The Kazakh who has won a WTA-leading 19 matches in 2020, took two and a quarter hours to outlast her move experienced Croatian opponent who led 3-0 in the second set. The 19th-ranked Rybakina will play for the title on Saturday against the winner from top seed Simon Halep and US qualifier Jennifer Brady.After a modest 2019 season, the 20-year-old has improved 150 places to 19th in the rankings."Hopefully, I can continue to play like this this year and next year also."In the second set, of course, I was 3-0 down, but I knew it was going to be easier to win that set than play a third one.
"In the important moments I managed to serve really good. I was fighting every point, just fighting."Rybakina saved set points in both sets. In the opener she also wasted three set points before ending the tie break with a crisp volley winner at the net.Rybakina saved a pair of set points in the 12th game to force a tiebreaker and dominated in the decider to advance.
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