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Other than the No. 3 vs. No. 6 matchup (Rybakina vs Kvitova) not happening, the rest of the seeds ran fairly according to form this week.

Sakkari v Mertens, and Kontaveit v Bencic were good (notably the first set of the latter), but Ostapenko over Sasnovich was the winner on the day.

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St. Petersburg Ladies Trophy
Dates: Feb. 7 – 13, 2022
Location: St. Petersburg, Russia
Surface: Hard, indoors (WTA 500)
Prize money: $565,530
Draws: S32 – D16

Friday, Feb. 11, 2022
Final results

Singles, quarterfinals

[1] Maria Sakkari (GRE) def. [8] Elise Mertens (BEL) 76 (7) 62
[2] Anett Kontaveit (EST) def. [5] Belinda Bencic (SUI) 76 (7) 62

[7] Jelena Ostapenko (LAT) def Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR) 76 (5) 46 63

Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU) def Tereza Martincova (CZE) 64 62

Doubles semifinal

Anna Kalinskaya (RUS) / Caty McNally (USA) def Anastasia Potapova / Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 62 57 [14-12]

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