{"id":4849,"date":"2022-08-21T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/?p=4849"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T01:49:18","slug":"kvitova-garcia-advance-to-cincinnati-womens-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/sports\/2022\/08\/21\/news\/4849\/","title":{"rendered":"Kvitova, Garcia advance to Cincinnati women\u2019s final"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4850\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/one_1-2-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petra Kvitova (CZE) reacts to a point during her match against Madison Keys (USA) at the Western &amp; Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, OH, USA on Aug 20, 2022. (Reuters)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MASON, Broadcasting news corporation : Petra Kvitova outlasted Madison Keys 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday to reach the Western &amp; Southern Open final. The 32-year-old Kvitova had never advanced to the semifinals in 10 prior appearances in the Cincinnati tournament. It is Czech\u2019s 40th career final, and she\u2019ll face another surprise entrant in Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia, the first qualifier to reach the final in Cincinnati. \u201cThat\u2019s nice to have this experience, even in my age,\u201d Kvitova said, smiling. \u201cIn my career, I had many, many finals, but never here. It feels different because it\u2019s for the first time in Cincinnati.\u201d Kvitova almost didn\u2019t make it out of the first round, having to save a match point against last year\u2019s finalist, Jil Teichmann. She also needed three sets to beat fifth-ranked Ons Jabeur in the third round. \u201cIt\u2019s like a second chance that you are almost gone and now you are still here and playing in the (final),\u201d Kvitova said. Keys, the<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4851\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4851\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/two_22-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caroline Garcia (FRA) returns a shot during her match against Aryna Sabalenka (BLR) at the Western &amp; Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Cincinnati, OH, USA on Aug 20, 2022. (Reuters).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>2019 champion in Cincinnati, defeated three grand slam winners this week, but couldn\u2019t close out Kvitova. The 28-year-old Garcia won her seventh straight match, beating sixth-seeded Aryna Sabalenka 6-2, 4-6, 6-1. There were two rain stoppages during the match, totaling four hours. Garcia took the first set, but following an almost 2 1\/2-hour delay, Sabalenka forced a third set. The second rain delay came with Garcia leading 3-1 in the third. But once play resumed, she made quick work of the Belarusian, winning three straight games to become the first qualifier to reach the finals in a WTA 1000 event. \u201cNo one expected it, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cIt\u2019s a long way to come from (qualifiers). It\u2019s one match at a time. Try to take the best from every match and improve through the tournament.\u201d<br \/>\nIt will be the ninth meeting between Kvitova and Garcia, with Kvitova winning five, including two straight wins in Miami and Madrid. \u201cShe\u2019s a great champion,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cYou have to play faster and move better on court against a player like this. It\u2019s a great challenge for me to play against Petra.\u201d NEWS COLLECTED FROM ARAB NEWS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASON, Broadcasting news corporation : Petra Kvitova outlasted Madison Keys 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday to reach the Western &amp; Southern Open final. The 32-year-old Kvitova had never advanced to the semifinals in 10 prior appearances in the Cincinnati tournament. It is Czech\u2019s 40th career final, and she\u2019ll face another surprise entrant in Frenchwoman &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4849\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bnc24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}