A few days before celebrating her 20th birthday, Diane Parry will play her first semi-final on the WTA circuit, near Granby, after beating Tatjana Maria after a long fight.
Next Thursday, she will celebrate her 20th birthday. And it is therefore still as a “teenager” that Diane Parry will play her first semi-final on the WTA circuit. While she had already made it to the last four nine times in the ITF or WTA 125 tournaments, the Parisian had never succeeded in the WTA 250. in Canada. After a 2h55 fight against her doubles partner Tatjana Maria, Wimbledon semi-finalist, Diane Parry ended up winning 6-4, 6-7, 7-6. A defeat would have left him with regrets because it served to win the match in the second set. But the essential is therefore assured, even if it was in pain, at the end of this very tight meeting. In the first set, the two players easily kept their face-off, until 4-4 where Parry managed to break on her second opportunity, before concluding at 40-30 on her serve.
Parry missed three match points
In the second, she saved two balls at 4-2, then missed a break point at 4-3. At 5-4 in her favor, the German player, ranked eleven ranks behind the French (remember that her magnificent course at Wimbledon did not bring her any points) got two set points at 5-4, and it it was finally her who lost her service at the worst moment, at 5-5. Parry served to win the match, and also had two match points on her face-off, but she missed them. It was therefore necessary to play a tie-break, where the young tricolor had a third match point, at 6-5, but she then lost the following three points, and therefore the set (8-6). Fortunately, she did not give up, and in the third set, she missed the only break point of the set (at 3-2), before winning the decisive game, winning this time. , the last three points (7-4). So here is Diane Parry in the semi-finals and guaranteed to get her best ranking on Monday (74th, at worst). She will be opposed on Friday to Daria Kasatkina or Nuria Parrizas-Diaz, two players she has never faced before.