Petra Kvitova and Daniela Hantuchova will meet in an Eastbourne semifinal on Friday with the Czech star looking great to make the final.
Petra Kvitova, the player seeded 8th in the upcoming Wimbledon draw, is looking like a title threat at the AEGON International as the Wimbledon semifinalist from last season is once again on sharp form on the grass court surface.
The Czech Republic's top player, Kvitova will face Daniela Hantuchova in the semifinal at Eastbourne on Friday with a chance to make the tournament's championship match on the line
(Kvitova 8/13, Hantuchova 6/5).
The two players have met just once before but it was in a pretty recent match. Kvitova defeated Hantuchova back in Fed Cup Week 1 action this season, a match that took place on the hard court surface, with the line score ending at 6-4, 6-2.
Hantuchova enters the semifinal as a hot player but really her recent results, though strong, remain double edged. The Slovak defeated Caroline Wozniacki at the French Open and then fell in the next round to Svetlana Kuznetsova. One would have thought that a win over the world number one would have implied strong enough tennis to get passed Kuznetsova as well but that was not the case.
Last week in Birmingham something similar happened as Hantuchova made the final in Birmingham through Ana Ivanovic and then lost to the unseeded and 100th ranked Sabine Lisicki.
Kvitova is definitely the better player entering the match and she promises to advance to the final where she would face the winner between Marion Bartoli and Sam Stosur.
CENTRE COURT start 11:30 am (UK times)
[5] Petra Kvitova (CZE) vs Daniela Hantuchova (SVK) - WTA
[7] Sam Stosur (AUS) vs [6] Marion Bartoli (FRA) - WTA
