Kvitova powers into Western & Southern Open semis

There will definitely be one leftie in the final of the Western and Southern Open to be played on Sunday, as both Petra Kvitova and Angelique Kerber won their respective quarter final matches on Friday and will face each other in one of the semi final matches.

Kvitova, the Czech winner of Wimbledon in 2011 and seeded fourth in this tournament, battled for an hour and three quarters in the night match to take out Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the number seventeen seed from Russia in straight sets 6-3  7-6 (4). After sealing a relatively easy first set, the two players went toe to toe in the second, with no breaks of serve on either side of the net, but it was Kvitova who raced to a 4-1 lead in the tie breaker and then never looked troubled, taking the set 7-6 with the breaker 7-4.

The second semi will be between Venus Williams and Na Li, after Li routed Agnieszka Radwanska 6-1 6-1 in just one hour ten minutes on court in the other night match. This was Li’s second match of the day, as her third round match against Johanna Larsson had been postponed from the previous night because of rain.

Li leads Williams 2-0 in their head to head count, while Kerber and Kvitova are at 1-1. Both these match ups should produce great tennis and possibly a new name on the trophy.

Tags Agnieszka Radwanska Angelique Kerber Li Na Petra Kvitova WTA Cincinnati