The pair of Monica Niculescu / Eri Hozumi (Romania / Japan) reached the Saturday final of the WTA 250 tournament in Bad Homburg (Germany).

Monica Niculescu and Makoto NinomiyaPhoto: Mutsu Kawamori / AFLO / Profimedia

Niculescu/Hozumi – Marozawa/Gamarra Martins in WTA Bad Homburg final

They defeated the pair of Tereza Mikhalikova / Makoto Ninomiya (Slovakia / Japan) after a super tiebreak with the score 6(5)-7, 6-4, 10-8.

The game lasted two hours and 12 minutes.

In the finals of the tournament, Niculescu and Hozumi will meet Lidia Marozava (Belarus) and Ingrid Gamarra Martins (Brazil).

Monica Niculescu’s partner, Japan’s Eri Hozumi, is the Bad Homburg doubles champion along with her compatriot, who lost in the semifinals, Makoto Ninomiya (the Romanian’s former partner).

The Bad Homburg Open is the third edition of the WTA 250 grass-court tournament and offers a total prize pool of $251,750.