Kirsten Flipkens has, at the side of the Swedish Johanna Larsson qualified for the final of the doubles at the WTA-tournament in the Australian Hobart (hard/ $ 250,000).
The duo won Friday with 7-5 and 6-4 of the Russian Anastasia Potapova and the Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska. The party lasted 1 hour and 27 minutes.
Saturday is waiting in the final with the Taiwanese sisters Hao-Ching and Latisha Chan the first seed. Flipkens and Larsson are the fourth seed.
The 33-year-old Flipkens is aiming for a fifth title in the double, the third with Larsson (after Seoul 2016 and Linz 2018). Last week ended the duo in the semi-finals in Auckland. Three times already lost Flipkens and Larsson a final (Nürenberg 2017 and 2018, Budapest, 2018).
In the enkeltoernooi was Flipkens, number 49, of the world, in the quarter-finals was turned off by the American, Sofia Kenin (WTA 56).
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