​Jacqueline Christian advanced to the semifinals of the ITF W60 tournament in Altenkirchen (Germany) after defeating Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer on Friday.

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Our sportswoman (232nd WTA rating) defeated Wickmayer (259th WTA rating) in three sets with a score of 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. The match lasted two hours and 19 minutes.

Jacqueline will fight the winner of the match between the Swiss Ilena In-Albon (133 WTA) and the Danish Klara Tosson (128 WTA) for the finals of the tournament in Germany.

Thanks to the track in Eitenkirchen, Christian has already climbed 20 positions in the WTA ranking (in the real-time ranking, he is on 212th place).

In the doubles, Christian plays Georgia’s Ekaterin Gorgodze, and in the semi-finals they will play against Britain’s Freya Christie and Ali Collins, who are favourites. 2.