Kaitlin Quevedo advances to the semifinals after beating Jil Teichmann

The Spanish tennis player Kaitlin Quevedo beat this Thursday Jil Teichmann by 7-6, 6-3 in the Canton quarterfinals in China and will fight for a place in the final of the tournament against the winner of the match between Lilli Tagger and Han Shi.

Quevedo, 86th in the world, she faced the Swiss for the first time, with whom she played a tight first set in which the 20-year-old Spaniard, after achieving a 4-1 lead, saw how Teichmann equalized the points. A trend that was repeated throughout the set until Quevedo was imposed 7-2 in the tie break.

The tables turned in the second, in which Teichmann started with 0-2 advantage, but one Kaitlin thrown took off on the scoreboard winning 4 consecutive games to close the game in almost two hours.

Quevedo, who will look for his second WTA title after his victory in Sao Paulo, wait rival in the semi-final, that will come out of the winner between Lilli Tagger and Han Shi, still to be played throughout today’s day.

In the rest of the confrontations of the quarter finals, the spanish Paula Badosa fell into three sets before the British Harriet Dart who will face the winner between Xinran Sun and Claire Liu.