Russian final in Tashkent

The Russian Margarita Gasparyan and Anastasia Potapova (pictured) will play for the title of the WTA International Tennis Series in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) with a prize pool of 250, 000 dollars. Casparian eliminated German semi-finals Mona Barthel with 4:6, 6:1, 7:5 after two hours of play. The 24-year-old player lost the first set with a single break in the tenth game, but in the second part he dominated and hurried up. She pulled 4:1 in the third set, but with two consecutive breaks Barthel turned to 5:4 and served for the match. There is a new turn and with a series of three games the Russian triumphs. So she came to the first final after her return to the court in the autumn of last year after a 16-month absence due to three knee operations. The former number 41 in the world rankings of Margarita Gasparyan, who has one title in Baku in 2015, is currently 299th in the WTA ranking. In the fight for the trophy tomorrow, she will face her compatriot Potapova, who has struggled wi th  (Ukraine) with 6:2, 6:3 in less than an hour, although at the beginning ofthe second set twice had to catch up a breakout liability. The 17-year-old Russian teenager, the132nd in the world at the moment, reached a second final for the season after the native land tournament according soccer events in Moscow in July. She strives for the first trophy in her career.