Baltacha reaches Midland semifinal
Friday, 12 February 2010
Third seed Elena Baltacha reached the semifinals of the 100,000 dollar ITF tournament in Midland, USA, with a win over Rebecca Marino of Canada. Baltacha defeated the seventeen year old in straight sets, 6-4, 6-4.
The British number one now awaits the winner of the quarter-final match between Britain's Anne Keothavong and Marta Domachowska of Poland. In her last 16 match, Keothavong beat the former world number 14, Eleni Daniilidou of Greece in straight sets, 6-1, 6-1. Her next opponent, Domachowska, has a current ranking of 135, eight places below the British number three. The Polish player has been ranked as high as 37 in the world, in April 2006.
Keothavong had a ranking of 54 in July 2009, before suffering an injury to her left knee, which required surgery. Due to her absence from the tour, her ranking has since slipped to 127.