Hofer cannot be stopped in Hammamet

However, the game against the Swiss Leonie Kung was very even. Until the score was 4:4, both players served three times each. After the 19-year-old from Ortisei completed her service, Hofer managed the decisive break in the tenth game to win the set 6:4.

In the second period, Kung promptly pulled away to 3-0 with two breaks. Hofer reacted immediately and equalized to 3:3. The Swiss Hofer then took serve again, but received the rebreak. Shortly afterwards, Hofer took the lead for the first time with 5:4. With the score at 6:5, the “Azzurra” used their third match point after 1:45 hours of play to make the final score 7:5. An extremely strong performance from the Val Gardena native, who will face 19-year-old Frenchwoman Alice Rame in the quarterfinals tomorrow, Friday.

For Hofer, it is the sixth quarter-final on the ITF tour, the second this year, after she made it to the last eight here in Tunisia in mid-January. She also made it to the quarter-finals in Altenkirchen 2014, Hammamet 2016 and Santa Margherita di Pula 2014 and 2016. She then reached the semi-finals both times in Sardinia.

Eliminated in doubles

In the afternoon, Verena Hofer was also in action in the doubles quarter-finals with Maria Vittoria Viviani, where they met Amelie Intert and, of all people, Leonie Kung. After winning the first set, the two “Azzurre” only had to admit defeat in the super tiebreak with 6:4, 1:6, 4:10.

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Hofer cannot be stopped in Hammamet

Verena Hofer qualified for the quarterfinals for the sixth time in her career on Thursday at the $15.000 ITF tournament on the Tunisian Mediterranean coast.

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