2023-11-06 22:29:54
The ÖTV future hope performs strongly in Egypt in singles and doubles.
Tamara Kostic played in the week before her debut for Austria’s women’s national team in the Billie Jean King Cup on 11/12. November showed strong form once morest Mexico in the Multiversum Schwechat. The 17-year-old once once more gave a taste of her talent at the ITF W15 hard court tournament in Sharm El Sheikh by reaching the singles semifinals and doubles finals.
In the singles, Kostic first defeated the Czech qualifier Nicol Benesova (WTA -) 6:1, 6:1, then defeated the Dutch Sarah van Emst (WTA 1244) 6:3, 2:6, 6:1 and finally also the 16-year-old Russian Vlada Mincheva (WTA -), number 24 in the youth world rankings, 6:1, 7:5. It was only in the fight for the final that the fifth-seeded Viennese (WTA 827) lost once morest third-seeded Russian Ekaterina Shalimova (WTA 657), 1:6, 5:7. Kostic had the chance to force a third set at 5:4 and on his own serve, as well as three break points at 5:5 and 0:40.
In doubles she formed a successful team with the individual triumph Alexandra Shubladze. Kostic and the Russian beat the fourth-seeded Arina Solomatina (Kyrgyzstan) and van Emst 6:0, 6:3, then the two benefited from the non-appearance of Kateryna Lazarenko (Ukraine) and Yu Shan (China), before they also beat the top seed Sandra in the semi-finals Samir (Egypt) and Shalimova were eliminated 6:3, 6:4. In the final they ultimately lost out once morest the Serbian Darja Suvirdjonkova and the Russian Daria Zelinskaya with 5:7, 6:2, 11:13. Kostic/Shubladze were unable to use a match point at 11:10 in the match tiebreak. Kostic missed out on her first title in her third international women’s doubles final, but was still able to enjoy a convincing tournament week.
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