Bulgaria's national team for the "Billie Jean King Cup" Lia Karatancheva qualified for the doubles final of the tennis tournament on hard courts in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) with a prize fund of 100 thousand dollars, BTA reported.
The Bulgarian and Diana Marcinkevitsa (Latvia) defeated the first seeded Eden Silva (Great Britain) and Valeria Strahova (Ukraine) after a reversal with 3:6, 6:3, 12:10 in 80 minutes. In the championship tiebreaker, they saved four match points and took the last three points to reach the ultimate success.
In a dispute for a place in the final, Karatancheva and Marchinkevica will play tomorrow against the winners of the match between Estelle Casquino (France)/Alexandra Eala (Philippines) and Maria Jose Portillo Ramirez (Mexico)/Noelia Cebayos (Bolivia).
The 20-year-old Karatancheva has two doubles trophies in her career from ITF tournaments.
Dimitar Kuzmanov qualified for the singles semifinals of the tournament on hard courts of the "Challenger" series. in Astana (Kazakhstan) with a prize fund of 41 thousand dollars, FOCUS reported.
The Bulgarian ranked #3 in the scheme defeated #5 Yevgeny Donskoi from Russia 6:4, 6:3. The meeting lasted 81 minutes.
Kuzmanov led 3:0 in the first set, but Donskoi managed to return the break to reduce his deficit to 4:5. After that, Miko made a new breakthrough and won the first part with 6:4.
The Bulgarian broke for 3:1 in the second set and closed the match in his favor with 6:3.
Dimitar Kuzmanov earned 14 points for the world ranking, and for a place in the final he will play against No. 622 in the world Alexander Bakshi from Georgia.