Defending champion from last year, Qinwen Zheng (China), advanced to the final of the WTA 250 Palermo Ladies Open clay tennis tournament with prize money of 259,303 USD.
The top-seeded Chinese tennis player won her semi-final match over 4th-seeded Diane Parry (France) by 2-0 (7:5, 6:4). The match lasted 1:39 hours. Qinwen Zheng has not lost a set since the beginning of the tournament and won in straight-set all her matches so far.
The season is strong for Qinwen Zheng, who in the beginning of the season reached the final of the Australian Open, losing to Aryna Sabalenka in two sets.
The 21-year-old Chinese tennis player Qinwen Zheng will face the second-seeded Karolina Muchova (Czech Republic) in the decisive final match. The second-seeded Chinese tennis player eliminated in the semi-finals the Romanian opponent Irina-Camelia Begu after 2-0 (6:1, 6:1).