Karin Knapp is in the semi-finals in Nuremberg

The match began with two breaks per player. Knapp then served her serve twice and took Putintseva's service two more times, so that the 27-year-old from Luttach won the first set 6-2.

In the semifinals on Friday at 15 p.m. against Lara Arruaberrena

In the second period, the Kazakh team moved ahead 3-1. When the score was 3:4 from Karin Knapp's point of view, he managed to equalize the break. After that, the world number 48 made everything clear within a few minutes and secured a place in the semi-finals, where the South Tyrolean will meet the Spaniard Lara Arruabarrena on Friday at 15 p.m. The world number 98 defeated German Carina Witthöft 6:0, 6:4 today.

Knapp leads the direct encounters against the Spaniards with 3-1 wins. Arruabarrena won the first duel in Mallorca in 2010, while the Luttacher won in Bogotà in Cincinnati in 2013 and in Paris last year, always clearly in two sets. For Karin Knapp it is the eleventh semi-final on the WTA tour, the first this year. With today's victory, the Ahrntal native remains safely in the top 50 of the world rankings.

With Roberta Vinci, placed fourth, another “Azzurra” made it into the round of the last four in Nuremberg. She will play against local hero Angelique Kerber tomorrow at 13.30:XNUMX p.m.

Karin Knapp's ten semi-final games so far on the WTA tour (two wins, eight 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 2014 Linz: -Camila Giorgi (ITA/WTA 42) 4:6, 2:6

Karin Knapp's two finals on the WTA tour (one win, one loss)

2008 Antwerp: -Justine Henin (BEL/WTA 1) 3:6, 3:6 2014 Tashkent: +Bojana Jovanovski (SRB/WTA 35) 6:2, 7:6(4)

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Karin Knapp is in the semi-finals in Nuremberg

The 27-year-old Luttacher repeated her previous success on Thursday afternoon at the WTA tournament in Nuremberg ($226.750 in prize money) and once again moved into the round of the last four. Knapp prevailed in a “break festival” 6:2, 6:4 against Kazakh Yulia Putintseva.

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