- Jabeur struggles through injury before bowing out of semi-final
- Aryna Sabalenka demolishes Anastasia Potapova in straight sets
World No 1 Iga Swiatek moved into the Stuttgart Open final on Saturday after her opponent Ons Jabeur retired injured three games into the first set. The Pole will face Aryna Sabalenka in a repeat of last year’s final after the Belarusian’s comfortable straight-sets victory over Anastasia Potapova.
Jabeur was on a seven-match winning run after recovering from surgery earlier this year but appeared to hurt herself during the last point of the first game. Fresh from her title win in Charleston earlier in the month, the world No 4 took a medical timeout but after playing on with her left calf bandaged for two more games she decided to stop with Swiatek 3-0 up.