Julia Grabher is approaching the highest 100 – Muricas News

On the age of 26, Julia Grabher is scratching the massive objective of the highest 100. The Dornbirn native positively secured her finest rating thus far on Monday. Grabher is within the ultimate of the $115,000 WTA125 match in Bari. After a quarter-final victory excessive seeded Panna Udvardy, she additionally defeated her Hungarian compatriot Reka-Luca Jani 6:4.6:1 on Saturday. The Italians Nuria Brancaccio and Matilde Paoletti contest the second semi-final.

Grabher was 3-0 down in opposition to Jani earlier than she turned the sport with 5 video games in a row and was not in peril. Because of her look in Bari, the a hundred and twentieth within the WTA rating has at the least achieved her finest placement thus far. If Grabher wins the title on Sunday, which might deliver her 160 factors for the world rankings, she would narrowly however nonetheless make it into the highest 100. This hasn’t existed for an Austrian for what seems like an eternity.

Because the final Austrian thus far, Yvonne Meusburger – like Grabher Dornbirnerin – appeared on January 19, 2015 as quantity 93 within the prime 100. After her retirement from the Australian Open, she ended her profession.

Grabher made a giant leap ahead this yr with Futures titles in Porto and San Bartolome in Gran Canaria, in addition to her first quarter-final on the WTA Tour in Istanbul in April. Originally of January it was nonetheless in 184th place.