Due to the rain, Caroline Garcia and seven other players will play their quarter-final on Saturday.
The rain, which fell on Berlin on Friday, forced the organizers of the lawn tennis tournament to postpone the quarter-finals for 24 hours. “The day has been officially canceled“, announced the organizers in a press release.
Saturday will be a busy day for Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia and the seven other players still in contention in this WTA 500 tournament, who will exchange the first balls on Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to compete in the quarterfinals. The four players qualified for the semi-finals will then return to the German turf.after a reasonable rest period“, specify the organizers of this preparatory tournament at Wimbledon. Caroline Garcia, 4th player in the world, will first face the Czech Petra Kvitova (9th).
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If she pes, she will play for her ticket to the final against Veronika Kudermetova or Ekaterina Alexandrova, on the bill for a 100% Russian quarter-final. The Frenchwoman, who successively released the German Sabine Lisicki then the Australian Jaimee Fourlis, had not won two matches in the same tournament since Indian Wells, in March. The other two quarters will feature Russian Elina Avanesyan against Croatian Donna Vekic and Czech Marketa Vondrousova against Greek Maria Sakkari.