Karin Knapp wins the “break battle” - pure thrill

In the first set, both tennis players held their serves until the score was 3:3. Karin Knapp, number 59 in the world, then had to give up her service to Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova, who was 15 positions better. But the 27-year-old Luttacher immediately succeeded in the rebreak. On her own serve, Knapp pulled away to 5:4 before the South Tyrolean, who has lived and trained in Anzio near Rome for several years, managed a second break to win the set. At this point, just over 47 minutes had been played.

Early break from Pironkova

The second period began with a break in Pironkova's favor. But Knapp immediately had the right answer ready and equalized. Then the Bulgarian of the same age took her serve again with the score at 4:3. But Knapp was able to counter immediately before Pironkova managed the third (fourth overall) break and finally served out to win the set.

Knapp misses five match points

In the third set, Karin Knapp took serve from her opponent when the score was 2:1. But that wasn't the preliminary decision, because the 2010 Wimbledon semi-finalist hit back and reduced the score to 4:5. Then the thriller really started. In the tenth game of the third set, Knapp initially missed five match points and had to fend off two of the Bulgarian's balls at the same time before she secured the semi-final ticket after 2:29 hours with a score of 6:4, 4:6, 6:4 . How close this match was is demonstrated by the fact that both players scored a total of 107 points.

Tenth semi-final for Karin Knapp, the third in 2014

Karin Knapp is in the semifinals of a WTA tournament for the tenth time in her career. So far she has won two games and lost seven times. Her opponent on Saturday at 13.30:6 p.m. is her compatriot Camila Giorgi, who knocked out Marina Erakovic from New Zealand 3:7, 5:XNUMX.

Karin Knapp's nine semi-finals so far on the WTA tour (two wins, seven defeats) 2007 Budapest: -Sorana Cristea (ROU/WTA 325) 6:3, 4:6, 3:6 2007 Palermo: -Martina Müller (GER/WTA 34) 1:6, 6:3, 3:6 2007 Bad Gastein: -Yvonne Meusburger (AUT/WTA 82) 3:6, 6:3, 1:6 2008 Antwerp: +Li Na (CHN/WTA 33) 6:4, 7:6(5) 2012 Estoril: -Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP/WTA 58) 4:6, 0:6 2013 Bogota: -Jelena Jankovic (SRB/WTA 24) 6:3, 1:6, 6:7(2) 2013 Bad Gastein: -Yvonne Meusburger (AUT/WTA 86) 4:6, 3:6 2014 Nuremberg: -Eugenie Bouchard (CAN/WTA 19), 4:6, 3:6 2014 Tashkent: +Lesia Tsurenko (UKR/WTA 124) 6:3, 6:3

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Karin Knapp wins the “break battle” - pure thrill

At the WTA tournament in Linz ($250.000 in prize money), Karin Knapp made it into the semi-finals on Friday afternoon after an extremely exciting match.

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