Overview

• World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka fell to former Wimbledon champion Marketa Vondrousova 6-2, 6-4 in the Berlin semifinal.
• Vondrousova will contest Sunday’s Berlin final against the winner of Ljudmila Samsonowa’s and Wang Xinyu’s semifinal.
• Sabalenka’s career haul of 20 tour titles still excludes a grass-court victory despite past Grand Slam success.
• The Berlin WTA-500 event, boasting a prize pool of about €1 million, serves as a key warm-up for Wimbledon, which begins June 30.
• German hopes shifted after Eva Lys’s first-round exit and now rest on Tatjana Maria, fresh from a Queen’s Club title.