On February 18, Beijing time, the semi-finals of the 2022 WTA500 Dubai Women's Singles competition were played between two former French Open women's singles champions, with Ostapenko from Latvia facing Romania's Halep.
Although neither is a seeded player in this year's tournament, the strength of Ostapenko and Halep is beyond doubt, so the game is destined to be full of tension.
Ostapenko, as the typical representative of "coaching", won seven wins in the second set to equalize in the first set 2-6, and swept Halep 6-0 in the decider, and then won 2-1 on aggregate to advance to his first women's singles final of the season.
In this game, Ostapenko's offensive firepower was full, and it was obvious that Halep was still slightly weak in the second half of the game, otherwise he would not have been sent by the opponent.
On Ostapenko's path to advancement, she faced all Grand Slam women's singles champions, including a 6-1 6-2 sweep of former Australian Open champion Kenning in the first round to give the Americans their fourth consecutive defeat in recent Tour singles.
The second round was against former French Open champion Swatak, who, although younger than himself, was still the No. 6 seed of this year's tournament, but Ostapenko still struggled to eliminate his opponent in three sets and advanced to the quarterfinals as he wished.
In the quarter-finals, she faced two-time Wimbledon women's singles champion Kvitova, and after three hard sets in the previous round, Ostapenko and the Czech star fought in three sets and won again.
Ostapenko will be challenged in the final by Russia's Kudmetova, who received Vandrosova's retirement ceremony before the start of the second-half semi-finals and won without a fight to advance to tomorrow's final.
In full form to advance to the first final of the season, Ostapenko's performance was a pleasant surprise, and now her immediate ranking has risen to 15th, and if she can finally win the cup, she will come to the Position of No.13.
In fact, after winning the French Open in 2017 (and also the first of her career), Ostapenko's state has been up and down, of course, this is inseparable from her style of play.
The last time latvian star reached the top of the tour was in Eastbourne in the 2021 season, an outdoor grass court match in which she defeated Estonia's Kontawit in the women's singles final.
It is worth mentioning that Wozniacki and Christiers, who have been away from the field for a long time, will bring an exhibition match to everyone at Dubai Centre Stadium.
The two have met three times in their careers, all of which ended in Christels' victory, and this exhibition match is still quite exciting! (Source: House of Tennis Author: Barbie)