Mariana Duque-Marino is a superwoman…
The 26-year-old Colombian tennis player had to play not one, but two matches on Friday to reach the final at the Nuremberg Cup.
Duque-Marino will now play for her second career title against Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens in Saturday’s final.
Duque-Marino, ranked No. 98 in the world, played three sets for nearly three hours in the morning in outlasting Varvara Lepchenko 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-2 in a quarterfinal that was postponed on Thursday because of rain.
Duque-Marino needed only just over an hour to dispatch third-seeded Annika Beck of Germany 7-5, 6-1 in the afternoon. Beck was the last seed in the tournament.
The tournament is a warm-up for the French Open that gets underway on Sunday in Paris.