UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Sports News

Medina Garrigues, Makarova set for final

|
 
Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues, shown in a tournament in February, advanced Friday to the finals of the Moroccan Grand Prix. (UPI Photo/Norbert Schiller)
Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues, shown in a tournament in February, advanced Friday to the finals of the Moroccan Grand Prix. (UPI Photo/Norbert Schiller) 
License photo
Published: May 1, 2009 at 12:42 PM

FES, Morocco, May 1 (UPI) -- Anabel Medina Garrigues and Ekaterina Makarova easily advanced Friday to the finals of the $220,000 Moroccan Grand Prix tennis tournament.

Medina Garrigues, the tournament's top seed, made Saturday's finals when Melinda Czink retired due to illness before the start of the second set of the clay-court match. Medina Garrigues won the first set 6-0, dropping just two points in her three service games.

Makarova, seeded sixth, advanced to her first WTA final with a 6-2, 6-1 rout of second-seeded Alisa Kleybanova. Makarova piled up seven service breaks in the match that lasted just under an hour.

Medina Garrigues is seeking her ninth career WTA title. She was the runner-up at Fes last year.

Medina Garrigues and Makarova have met once in their careers, with Medina Garrigues winning the hard-court match in straight sets.

The Moroccan Grand Prix winner will earn $37,000.

Topics: Ekaterina Makarova, Melinda Czink
© 2009 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
Additional Sports News Stories
1 of 17
Tornado recover efforts underway in Moore, Oklahoma
View Caption
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin talks to victims from the May 20 tornado that hit Moore, Oklahoma, May 22, 2013. The EF-5 tornado cut a path of destruction approximately 17 miles by 1.3 miles wide and left 24 people dead. UPI/J.P. Wilson
fark
How to steal the mini-bar like a boss
You've lost faith in our systems, witnessed a parade of lies and deceit. So you look for comfort,...
Charles Ramsey awarded free McDonalds for life, which will now be about six months
Newspaper investigation concludes that soldiers with injuries, PTSD, are being drummed out of the...
Ginger columnist ponders a future without redheads, whose genetic mutation will soon come to a natural...
Battle to keep people with money out of the Bronx is a success