ITF: Korpatsch misses third year title
Tamara Korpatsch narrowly missed her third ITF title this year at the ITF-W60 tournament in Nantes, France. The Hamburg woman conceded in the final of a tight three-point defeat.
by Robert M. Frank
last edit: Nov 03, 2019, 08:56 pm
Korumpsch (WTA 124), 21-year-old Moldova's Cristina Bucsa (WTA 205), lost in the finals of the $ 60,000 hard-field indoor tournament in the final with 2: 6, 7: 6 (11), 6: 7 (6) , In the city on the Loire, the Bundesliga player of the club on the Alster had made good appearances. Alice Tubello (WTA 555), Akgul Amanmuradova (WTA 456) and Amandine Hesse (WTA 236) beat Korpatsch in the first three rounds without losing a set. Only in the semi-final against Ana Bogdan (WTA 136) she had made a sentence.
The narrow final defeat in the west of France brings the 24-year-old Hanseatin in the WTA World Ranking still up nine ranks. The nine-time ITF tournament winner has received 48 world ranking list points and climbs nine places in the new WTA ranking, which will be published Monday, in the direction of her former top career placement (ATP 107).