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League 1: Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe – Politehnica Iași, Friday, 20:30, Digi Sport 1
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League 1: Astra – FC Argeș, Saturday, 14:00, Digi Sport 1
LIVE VIDEO Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova, NOW, la Digi Sport 2
UPDATE, now 09:10: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6, 0-3. The Russian woman gives up a point and does her job.
UPDATE, now 09:08: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6, 0-2. Simona’s medical problems speak for themselves, and the Russian takes advantage and takes the break.
UPDATE, now 09:03: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6, 0-1. The Russian does her job and reaches seven wins in a row.
UPDATE, now 08:59: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6. The Russian achieves a new break and wins her first set.
UPDATE, now 08:57: Simona Halep accuses medical problems in the back.
UPDATE, now 08:55: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-5. The Russian confirms a good period in the game and reaches five wins in a row.
UPDATE, now 08:53: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-4. The Russian imposes the rhythm of the game, hits hard and, hopefully at the last point, prevails at Simona’s service.
UPDATE, at 08:50: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-3. The Russian manages to save two break points and wins the third game in a row.
UPDATE, at 08:45: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-2. The Russian takes advantage of a weaker serve from Simona and uses the first break ball she had.
UPDATE, at 08:40: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-1. The Russian serves aggressively and manages to win the first game.
UPDATE, now 08:37: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-0. Halep confirms the breakup without giving up.
UPDATE, now 08:34: Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova 1-0. Halep takes advantage of his fourth break ball and wins his first game of the match.
UPDATE, Friday, 08:27. The match begins with Ekaterina Alexandrova at work.
The two athletes were supposed to meet on Thursday morning, around 6:00, but the case of COVID-19 showed up in melbourne at a hotel it caused the isolation of 667 people, players and staff and the postponement of all games to Friday.
UPDATE, Thursday, 13:30: The match between Simona Halep and Ekaterina Aleksandrova, for the semifinals, will start on Friday morning around 8:30 and will be live on Digi Sport 2 and on the website digisport.ro . The match will be the fifth in Melbourne’s central arena, starting after the end of the match between Marketa Vondrousova and Nadia Podoroska.
Broadcast program
Friday Feb 5
WTA Melbourne Summer Series (ziua 5):
Ashleigh BARTY (AUS) – Shelby ROGERS (United States), 01:00 / DGS 2
Garbiñe MUGURUZA (ESP) – Sofia KENIN (United States), DGS 2
Serena WILLIAMS (United States) – Danielle COLLINS (United States), DGS 2
Marketa VONDROUSOVA (CZE) – Nadia PODOROSKA (ARG), DGS 2
Simona HALEP (ROU) – Ekaterina ALEXANDROVA (RUS), approx. at 07:00 / DGS 2
Kaia KANEPI (EST) – Karolina MUCHOVA (CZE)), DGS 2
Irina-Camelia BEGU (ROU) – Naomi OSAKA (JPN), approx. at 10:00 / DGS 2
Elise MERTENS (BEL) – Elina SVITOLINA (UKR), DGS 2
Sorana CIRSTEA (ROU) – Belinda BENCIC (SUI), 02:00 / DGS 4
Angelique KERBER (GER) – Ons JABEUR (TUN), DGS 4
The initial news
UPDATE, at 17:15: The match between Simona Halep and Ekaterina Aleksandrova, which should have been played on Thursday morning, was postponed, after a case of COVID-19 appeared in the Melbourne “bubble”. Almost 600 people were confined in solitary confinement and all matches on Thursday were postponed. The duels could resume on Friday, depending on the results of the COVID-19 tests.
In the rooms, Simona Halep will play against Ekaterina Alexandrova, an athlete located in 33rd place in the WTA hierarchy, who passed in the eighth by Iga Swiatek, 6-4, 6-2, a game scheduled for Thursday morning.
When Simona Halep – Ekaterina Alexandrova is playing
The organizers set the schedule for Thursday, and Simona Halep’s match with Ekaterina Alexandrova was scheduled for second in the third field, after Elise Mertens – Elina Svitolina, which will start at 03:30 Romanian time.
Thus, Simona Halep’s duel, broadcast live on Digi Sport 2, will begin around 05:30 in Romania, all depending on the development of the previous game in Arena 3 of the complex.
Also on Thursday morning, Simona Halep and Daria Gavrilova will play the quarterfinals in doubles, against the pair formed by Mihaela Buzărnescu and Alize Cornet.
A similar scenario was experienced by Simona Halep on Wednesday, when she played singles, where she passed Laura Siegemund, and immediately after the doubles, against the couple formed by Gabriela Dabrowski and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, a match won, along with Daria Gavrilova, they scored 7 -6 (4), 2-6, 10-2.
Ekaterina Alexandrova, Simona Halep’s opponent in the Gippsland Trophy quarter-finals
The Gippsland Trophy quarterfinal clash will record the third direct meeting between Simona Halep and Ekaterina Alexandrova.
The two previous direct matches took place in 2019, Halep managed to win in Cincinnati, 3-6, 7-5, 6-4, while Alexandrova took revenge in Beijing, 6-2, 6-3.
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