Leyre Romero Gormaz ended her Hamburg tournament run on Friday, falling to Slovenia's Kaja Juvan in a hard-fought quarter-final that ended 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-4. The Spanish player, currently ranked 133rd in the WTA standings, battled for two hours and forty-two minutes before conceding defeat.
The opening set featured a service break festival, with five breaks in total. Romero Gormaz managed to break her opponent twice, but Juvan secured three breaks, including a crucial one in the tenth game that sealed the set 6-4.
Romero Gormaz showed remarkable resilience in the second set. Both players tightened up their service games, with just one break apiece, forcing a tiebreak. The Spanish player found her best form at the perfect moment, taking the tiebreak 7-5 to extend the match.
Interestingly, the deciding set remained on serve until Juvan broke through in the seventh game – a pivotal moment that ultimately determined the outcome. The Slovenian held her nerve to close out the match 6-4 and secure her place in the semifinals.
Juvan now awaits the winner between tournament top seed Ekaterina Alexandrova from Russia and Hungary's Anna Bindar. Can the Slovenian continue her impressive run and make it to the final?
