Frenchwoman Alize Cornet and Belgian Elise Mertens reached the finals of the WTA 250 tournament in Monastir (Tunisia) on Saturday.

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Alize Cornet and Elise Mertens will fight for the title in Monastir

In the first match of the day, Corne (37 WTA / favorite 3) overcame the higher-ranked rival Russian Veronika Kudermetova (12 WTA / 2), score 6-4, 6-3.

In the other semifinal in Tunisia, Mertens (42 WTA / 5) needed an hour and 13 minutes of play to defeat American Claire Liu (73 WTA / eliminated the top favorite Ons Jabert), 6 -4, 6-0.

Alize and Elise met four times on the WTA circuit and shared their victories. The last match of the year took place in St. Petersburg, and the Belgian won 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

“Jasmin Open Monastir” will be held from October 3 to 9 on hard, is part of the WTA 250 category, and has a total prize pool of $251,750.

The result of the match between Alize Cornet and Veronika Kudermetova

The result of the match Claire Liu – Elise Mertens