Qualifier Pera tops hometown fave Bondar in Budapest to set final with Krunic
Bernarda Pera won against Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-4 on Saturday afternoon and will play Serb Aleksandra Krunic in the final
Bernarda Pera USA at the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest | Imago / Panoramic
American qualifier Bernarda Pera won against Hungarian Anna Bondar, the No 9 seed, 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the final of the Hungarian Grand Prix at Római Tennis Academy in Budapest on Saturday afternoon.
Pera, ranked No 130, will face 105th-ranked Aleksandra Krunic for the title.
Pera leads the pair’s head-to-head 2-0, but they have not met on clay.
Krunic, who snapped Yulia Putintseva’s eight-match Budapest winning streak on Saturday, is bidding for her second title, in her first WTA final since June of 2018; Pera is bidding for her first.
The 29-year-old Serb has dropped just 13 games through four matches at Budapest. Pera, yet to drop a set as well, has dropped 28 games through four rounds. She also won both her qualifying matches in straight sets.
People in this post
More tennis news
Rybakina and Swiatek both fight through to set up Toronto final decider
August 13, 1999: The day Steffi Graf announced her retirement
Shelton and Nakashima set up first all-American Masters 1000 final since 2003
August 12, 1990: The day Stefan Edberg won Cincinnati to become world No 1
Rybakina claws back from double jeopardy to beat Osaka and set up first-ever Gauff meeting since 2022
