Czech Marketa Vondrousova will face Switzerland's Belinda Bencic in the final of the women's tennis tournament at the Tokyo Olympics. Already executioner of the great favorite Naomi Osaka in the second round, Vondrousova today eliminated the number 6 in the world, the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, in two sets (6-3, 6-1) and an hour and 5 'of play.
Bencic, 24, beat Kazakh Elena Rybakina 7-6 (7/2), 4-6, 6-3 in the other semifinal. Previously he had eliminated last Roland-Garros winner Barbora Krejcikova in the round of 16, and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinals. Svitolina and Rybakina will face each other for the bronze.