Dia Evtimova and Tanya Germanlieva will play at the finals of the international tennis tournament for women “Interhotel Sandanski Cup”, with 10 000 dollars prize for the winner. Evtimova, в„–1 in the tournament rankings, defeated the Romanian Kristina-Bianka Danaila with 7:6(3), 6:4, and Germanlieva defeated the Macedonian Alexandra Iosifovska (в„–2 in the rankings) with 2:6, 6:3, 6:4.

The finals between Dia Evtimova and Tanya Germanlieva is tomorrow at 11:00 h., on the new courts of the tennis club “Interhotel Sandanski”. The winner from the second edition of the tournament will gain 12 points for the international rankings of WTA and a 1568 dollars prize. The loser in the finals gets 8 points and 980 dollars.

Curiously, this isn’t the first time this tournament hosts finals between players from the same country. Last year’s women finals were between the Dutch players Marlon Medens and Leoni Mekel (3:6, 6:3, 6:3), and the Bulgarian Ivailo Traikov defeated his colleague Tihomir Grozdanov in the finals of the tournament for men a month ago (2:6, 6:4, 6:3).