15-year-old Daria Lopatetska can't stop winning, seeking fourth pro title
Instead of preparing for the junior action at the Australian Open, the 15-year-old Ukrainian Daria Lopatetska is making huge steps on the professional Tour, cracking the top-400 as the youngest player in that group following two great results in Hong Kong in the previous two weeks. Including the qualifying matches since her pro debut last June, Daria has won mighty impressive 29 out of 32 matches and she is undoubtedly one of the players to watch in the years to come, holding all the weapons to become one of the best players in the world.
Lopatetska claimed her third title from just five tournaments played last week in Hong Kong and she has no intentions of stopping anytime soon, qualifying for the main draw for another W25 event this week and reaching the fourth title match after four rock-solid wins on her tally. In the opening round of the main draw action, Daria took down a former junior world no. 2 Xinyu Wang 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in an hour and 52 minutes, overcoming a slow start to dominate in the rest of the match and reach the second round. There, the top seed Momoko Kobori fell down 6-3, 6-3 after an hour and a half, breaking Daria four times but suffering seven breaks of serve to send the youngster into the last eight.
Mai Minokoshi also won the opening set against the Ukrainian but Daria shifted into a higher gear from set number two and never looked back in a 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 win in two hours and 15 minutes to set the clash with the 4th seed Cagla Buyukakcay. A former world no. 60 stood no chance against the upcoming youngster who claimed a dominant 6-1, 6-2 victory in just 69 minutes for her fourth pro final from only six tournaments entered! A qualifier stood strong from start to finish, losing serve once and dominating on the return to grab five breaks from nine chances, overpowering Cagla in every department to march towards the finish line. The 19-year-old Shuyue Ma is another youngster who qualified for the main draw to reach the final and it should be interesting to see who will lift the trophy on Sunday.
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2H7UBFN
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