Mozart Open ladies semifinal: New Zealand’s Kaitlyn Watts causes another upset!

Today’s quarterfinals of the Mozart Open ladies event was the last day of action at Tenniscourts Süd. Meanwhile the glasscourt was constructed at EUROPARK Salzburg shopping mall. Its where the event will continue on Friday with the semifinals and the final on Saturday.

New Zealand’s Kaitlyn Watts continued her great run taking out another higher seeded player. The Kiwi beat fourth seed Isabel McCullough in the longest match of the tournament so far 3/1 in 53min. She will face top seed Hana Ismail in the semifinal. The Egyptian was too strong for Akari Midorikawa from Japan and booked her semifinal spot with a convincing 3/0 victory.

The second semfinal will be contested between second seed Sarahi Lopez from Mexico and Toby Tse from Hong Kong. Both players won their quarterfinal matches 3/1 and showed some great racket and physical skills.

As mentioned the semfinal matches will take place at EUROPARK Salzburg shopping mall where an all-glasscourt was put up to also host the men’s tournament next week.

Here are the full results of the quarterfinals:

[3] Toby Tse (HGK, WRL 110) – [5] Sophie Fadaely (AUS, WRL 120) 11/9, 11/5, 7/11, 14/12 29min
[9/16] Kaitlyn Watts (NZL, WRL 178) – [4] Isabel McCullough (ENG, WRL 118) 11/9, 11/7, 11/13, 11/7 53min
[2] Sarahi Lopez (MEX, WRL 105) – [6] Lea Barbeau (FRA, WRL 124) 8/11, 11/8, 11/4, 11/4 38min
[1] Hana Ismail (EGY, WRL 90) – [7] Akari Midorikawa (JPN, WRL 130) 11/8, 11/5, 11/8, 24min

This is the line up for the semifinals on Friday 2nd May at EUROPAK Salzburg shopping mall.

18:30: [2] Sarahi Lopez (MEX, WRL 105) – [3] Toby Tse (HGK, WRL 110)
19:30: [1] Hana Ismail (EGY, WRL 90) – [9/16] Kaitlyn Watts (NZL, WRL 178)

Professional pictures will be provided tomorrow again from our photographer Jasmin Walter.