Race to be fit
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ByEurosport
Published 29/10/2005 at 18:30 GMT
Russian Nadia Petrova may be handed her first WTA Tour singles title should Patty Schnyder fail to recover in time from a wrist injury sustained in a fit of temper at the Linz Open on Saturday. With her hand bandaged the 26-year-old said she would visit a
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Schnyder produced a Jekyll and Hyde performance with nine breaks of serve in the first set against teenaged Serbian Ana Ivanovic.
With Ivanovic's second break of serve, Schnyder slammed her racquet to the indoor court surface to injury herself.
"It's pretty stupid and very unlucky how it happened," the Swiss said.
"I was still able to play but I had a lot of pain. I had some pain-killers during the match and at the end it was a little better.
"There is nothing really severe and I'm going to get some treatment and I need to take care of it. I think I'll be able to play the final."
Schnyder now has a race to be fit. A decision will be taken over whether she will play third seed Petrova, who beat Czech Kveta Peschke 6-3 6-4, after her morning warm-up on Sunday.
Schnyder chalked up a fourth win this season over 17-year-old Ivanovic with a 7-5 6-2 triumph that seals her second final appearance in eight days.
Last week's Zurich Open final is now virtually assured of joining Lindsay Davenport, Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova, Mary Pierce and Amelie Mauresmo as qualifiers for the season-ending WTA Championships in Los Angeles from 8 November.
Petrova has a slim chance of reaching the finale.
A winner of both her previous matches against Peschke, the world number ten eventually broke in a tightly-contested game to lead 5-3 and served out the set to love with a pair of aces.
Petrova bided her time in the second set before she broke for a 4-3 lead by forcing Peschke to hit a forehand volley long.
You can follow live scoring and comments of the WTA Linz final on Eurosport television and eurosport.com/.co.uk from 13:30cet / 12:30pm in Britain on Sunday.
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