No seeds have presented the semi-final of the WTA 500 Guadalajara Open presented by Santander, both Magdalena Frech and Tatjana Maria, picked up by 19-year-old Nikola Bartunkova and 22-year-old Elsa Jacquemot on Friday.
I played very well and I really want to continue at that level. For the players it makes a difference to see the stadium with people, it gives energy. Regarding my game, consistency and variety made the difference this week. What I did very well today is that I was very consistent. Emiliana Arango
Bartunkova surprised Frech, the Polish 4th Seed, 7-5 6-4, to reach her Maiden WTA Semi final, while Jacquemot found a solution for Maria’s Snicing-and-Dicing, in which the 38-year-old German German defeated 3-6 6-4 6-4.
Onder de rijzende sterren die ook genoten van een doorbraak in hun eerste WTA-halve finale op vrijdag waren de 17-jarige Iva Jovic, die voorbij de 20-jarige Andorran-kwalificatiewedstrijd Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, 6-3 3-6 7-6 (6) en Emiliana Arango, een 24-jarige van Colombia, een 6-2 6-3-jarige Old Year Old Old Old Marina Old OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD MARINA and Canada, decreased.
Bartunkova was confronted with a stiff test against the title defender, Magdalena Frech, but sent the pole into straight sets with balance and precision.
Later then planned in the stands Court instead of the Capitaly Court due to weather for weather conditions, the young Czech conquered an early break in the opening set and never looked back, her upset victory in an hour and 38 minutes sealed.
With the victory, Bartunkova continues to her first WTA-half final, which comes her first WTA level tournament in almost 2 years, while she also marked the first top 30 victory of her career.
The 17-year-old IVA Jovic stood past the Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva qualifying match in a 3rd set breaker to reach the semi-final in Guadalajara and a meeting with Nikola Bartunkova
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Bartunkova’s opponent in the Last 8 is 17-year-old, Iva Jovic, who endured a gruelling 2 hour, 38 minute battle with Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, which saw a nearly hour-long rain delay, an outfit change, from a black kit to a purple one, and dramatic momentum swings before The American Emerged the Winner After 3 sets.
Jovic broke twice to stay alive in the third and then saved a match point in the tense match tiebreak to conquer her place in the last 4.
“I’m still vibrating,” Jovic said after the game. “I can’t believe that I got through that game – it was up and down. But I never expected that I would get so much support here in Guadalajara. You brought me through the game.”
With the victory, Jovic improves to 11-3 in 3-set competitions at all levels this season.
Elsa Jacquemot survived veteran Tatjana Maria, the 6th seed, to reach her first semifinal at WTA level in Zapopan, Mexico
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Earlier in the day, fans were treated to another exciting battle at the Akron Stadium, while Elsa Jacquemot was transmitted Veteran Tatjana Maria to reach her first semifinal at WTA level.
Maria, the more experienced player, looked early in control and took the first set, but the 22-year-old French woman from Lyon gathered from a set to win after 2 hours and 12 minutes.
Jacquemot was broken 5 times, but broke 6 breaks against Maria to get ahead, and despite winning 3 fewer total points in the course of the game, found a way to prevail.
On Friday, Emiliana Arango went on to her 2nd WTA 500 semi-final of 2025 with a routine straight sets victory for qualifying Marina Stakusic in 72 minutes and has to drop another set this week.
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Her opponent in the semi-final is Colombian Emiliana Arango, who ended the Run of the Marina Stakusic in Canada, who had disrupted no. 3 seeds earlier in the day, Jelena Ostapenko from Latvia, 6-4 6-7 (6) 6-2, in a 2nd round meeting that lasted 2 hours and 33 minutes.
Stakusic recovered after losing a 3-1 second set of lead and a 5-2 advantage in the second set of tiebreak to eliminate Ostapenko for the second year in a row.
Arango is flowering in Mexico, and it is the second time this season that she reached the last 4 here, after she has made the final on the Mérida Open, a week after winning the WTA 125 in Cancun.
Her run in Guadalajara is equal to the best result of a Colombian at the tournament, after Camila Osorio had reached the semi -final last year.
Osorio, the 8th seed, fell on Jovic in the 2nd round, while Arango has improved her record this year to 4-1 against top 100 players.
“I played very well and I really want to continue at that level,” Arango said after her victory against Stakusic, which was arranged 155. “For the players it makes a difference to see the stadium with people, it gives energy.
“As far as my game is concerned, consistency and variety have made the difference this week. Today, what I did very well is that I was very consistent.”
Stakusic showed up for the game that played almost 5 hours on the field this week, while Arango had hardly broken a sweat, with just an hour and 33 minutes of match game.
It is the third time in the season that Stakusic has lost to Arango, the Colombian has defeated her in the WTA 1000 qualification in Rome and the WTA 125 in Cancun.
From the start, Arango took control of the game and made Stakusic Run, who showed no signs of fatigue after playing her quarterfinals against Ostapenko earlier in the day.
Nevertheless, the South -American prevailed and got 3 breaks to take the opener in just half an hour.
The second was more competitive, because they both held the first 4 games, until Arango broke in the 5th, only for Stakusic to get herself back on serve immediately.
Arango broke again in the 9th match and drove to victory in 72 minutes, ended with 75% of her first serving in landing and won 66.7% of the points behind it.
The Akron Stadium in the Pan American Tennis Center in Zapopan, Mexico
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Arango, currently ranked in 86, saw a career of 76 of 76 in June of this year and Jacquemot will be confronted for a place in the final, in what will the first meeting between the two.
“It will be an interesting match and I hope to keep giving my best game,” she noticed.
Asked why she plays so well in Mexico, Arango replied: “I have no idea, but I need more tournaments here in Mexico. I want all the tournaments here in Mexico, so I can have all the people with me.”
In March she reached the final in Cancún before she fell in a LOP-sided way, with 6-0 6-0 to Emma Navarro, but now she is only a player in the draw with experience in a WTA level tournament and will be looking for a good run to the title.
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