Kaitlin Quevedo and Lilli Tagger meet in the semifinal at Guangzhou on Saturday. Lilli Tagger has won 5 of the last 10. Kaitlin Quevedo is 8-2 across recent matches.
Hold strength tells the story — 67.4% versus 61.9% on first-serve points in Tagger's favor. Quevedo comes in off a compressed schedule; Tagger comes in off a compressed schedule. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Tagger is exactly that — a lean.