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New Delhi: Unseeded teenagers, former world junior No. 1 Ivana Jorovic (Serbia) and Austria\u2019s Barbara Haas set up a title clash in the QNET Open $50,000 ITF Women\u2019s Circuit here. They secured hard-fought semifinal victories over second-seeded Anastasiya Vasylyeva (Ukraine) and seventh-seeded Elise Mertens (Belgium) respectively at the DLTA Complex on Friday.<\/p>\n
Playing her maiden $50,000 ITF tournament, the 17-year-old Ivana Jorovic was over the moon after winning her semifinal with Anastasiya Vasylyeva 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 after a quality contest. The 22-year-old Ukraine left-hander banked on her experience to win the opening set but allowed unforced errors to creep into her game.<\/p>\n
Anastasiya Vasylyeva, with seven ITF singles titles, was expected to put herself in line for her second crown this year but Ivana Jorovic raised her game a notch to win the final set easily. The teenager, who won four $10,000 ITF titles in 2012 and 2013, had beaten fourth-seeded Tadja Majeric (Slovekia) in the first round after securing an automatic berth in the main draw.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe (Vasylyeva) didn’t miss many balls in the first set. She played really strongly and hit the ball hard. I lost points at the start because of my own fault,\u201d said Jorovic after cruising through the third set. \u201cI have lost to Barbara Haas before but that was a long time back. I have improved more and Saturday will be different.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elise Mertens became the third seeded player to face defeat at the hands of 18-year-old Barbara Haas this week. No. 8 Sofiya Kovalets (Ukraine) and the top-seeded Patricia Mayr-Achleitner (Austria) had ended up on the losing side against Barbara Haas in the first round and the quarterfinals respectively.<\/p>\n
The Austrian, who has five $10,000 ITF titles, based her victory on Friday on a strong defence and that was something that Elise Mertens had no hesitation in accepting. \u201cBarbara played well and her defence was strong. I could have been a bit more aggressive but I was a little tired. But no excuses, I could have played better,\u201d Mertens said.<\/p>\n
Sadly for Mertens, despite being second seeded with Marina Melnikova (Russia), she ended up on the losing side of the doubles final where the China\u2019s Chang Liu and Jia-Jing Lu ran out easy winners.<\/p>\n
Friday\u2019s results:<\/strong><\/p>\n Singles (semifinals): Barbara Haas (Austria) beat (7) Elise Mertens (Belgium) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Ivana Jorovic (Serbia) beat (2) Anastasiya Valysyeva (Ukraine) 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.<\/p>\n Doubles (final): (4) Chang Liu and Jia-Jing Lu (China) beat (2) Marina Melnikova (Russia) and Elise Mertens (Belgium) 6-3, 6-0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Playing her maiden $50,000 ITF tournament, the 17-year-old Ivana Jorovic was over the moon after winning her semifinal with Anastasiya Vasylyeva 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 after a quality contest. The 22-year-old Ukraine left-hander banked on her experience to win the opening set but allowed unforced errors to creep into her game.<\/p>\n Anastasiya Vasylyeva, with seven ITF singles titles, was expected to put herself in line for her second crown this year but Ivana Jorovic raised her game a notch to win the final set easily. The teenager, who won four $10,000 ITF titles in 2012 and 2013, had beaten fourth-seeded Tadja Majeric (Slovekia) in the first round after securing an automatic berth in the main draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis-tennis"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Delhi: Unseeded teenagers, former world junior No. 1 Ivana Jorovic (Serbia) and Austria\u2019s Barbara Haas set up a title clash in the QNET Open $50,000 ITF Women\u2019s Circuit here. They secured hard-fought semifinal victories over second-seeded Anastasiya Vasylyeva (Ukraine) and seventh-seeded Elise Mertens (Belgium) respectively at the DLTA Complex on Friday.<\/p>\n