Tatiana Prozorova beat China's Xinyu Wang in the quarterfinals of the WTA 500 event in Singapore, 3-6 7-5 6-4, to reach the semifinals. The tournament is played on hard courts, and the prize money is $1.2 million. Both players are unseeded. Prozorova is ranked No. 123 with 621 points, while Wang is No. 38 with 1288 points (according to rank.tennis).
Three sets and 180 minutes
Wang took the first set, 6-3. In the second set, Prozorova pulled level at 7-5, and she won the decider 6-4. The match lasted 180 minutes.
The numbers from api.tennis show how tight the match was. Both players converted five break points each: Prozorova from 15, Wang from 13. On first serve, the Russian won 45 points, while her opponent won 49. Prozorova hit two aces to one, and four double faults to five. The total points won were almost identical: 112 for Prozorova and 108 for Wang.
For Prozorova, this scenario has already become familiar at this tournament: in all three of her matches in Singapore, she has started by losing the first set. In the first round, the Russian beat Sofia Costoulas 5-7 7-6(2) 6-2, and in the second she defeated Alexandra Eala, 4-6 7-5 6-3. Before the quarterfinal, Wang had not dropped a set, beating Donna Vekić 6-1 6-2 and Joanna Garland 7-5 6-4. The head-to-head is now 1:0 in Prozorova's favor.