The Brazilian tennis player Bia Haddad Maia qualified for the final of the WTA 250 in Nottingham, England, by beating the Czech Tereza Martincová, this Saturday (11). Seed number 7, the green and yellow athlete had already beaten her rival in the first set by 6/3 and was ahead of the score by 4/1 in the second set when the opponent asked for medical attention and abandoned the match. The duel was only 43 minutes long.
The opponent in the decision of the tournament, played on grass, will come out of the confrontation between the American Alison Riske and the Swiss Viktorija Golubic. This is the first time that the national tennis player reaches the final of a WTA grass tournament. This season, the athlete’s best results are the WTA 125 title in Saint-Malo (her main title in singles) and the runner-up in the WTA 125 in Paris.
Currently ranked 48th in the world ranking, the Brazilian will appear in the next update for the first time in her career among the 40 best players in the world. In addition to the decision in the singles tournament, Haddad is also in the women’s doubles semifinal with Chinese Shuang Zang. The opponents looking for another final will be Chan Hao-ching, from Taiwan, and Shuko Aoyama, from Japan, even today.
