Long-time doubles partners Aryna Sabalenka and Elise Mertens will face each other in the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz, the last WTA tournament in the crazy 2020 season marked by the coronavirus pandemic.
Both players navigated through tough three-setters in Saturday’s semifinals. The second-seeded Mertens rallied from a set down to overcome 2018 runner-up and fourth seed Ekaterina Alexandrova 2-6 6-1 7-5, while the top-seeded Sabalenka joined her in the final with a 7-5 4-6 6-3 win over Barbora Krejcikova.
The victory earned Sabalenka her first ever year-end Top 10 finish for which was gifted a cake with ten candles, as you can see in Jimmie48‘s photo gallery.