Tatjana Maria and Madison Keys reached the Eastbourne Open final on day five after both of their semifinal opponents retired. Maria went through when third seed Jelena Ostapenko stopped after rain had already interrupted their match, while Petra Marcinko retired as soon as the second set started against Keys.
For Keys, the result sends her into a third final at Eastbourne, where she has already won two titles. Maria had taken the first set 6-1 before the weather delay, and the match never resumed as a completed contest. The women’s final was decided without either semifinal reaching the finish, a sharp turn on a day that was supposed to build toward the closing rounds.
That is why readers are checking Eastbourne Tennis coverage now: the women’s final is set, but the path to it was shortened twice. Both semifinal exits came through retirement rather than a finished match, leaving the day with less on-court tennis than planned and a final that was shaped as much by interruptions as by scorelines.
The men’s side was still to come later in the day, with GB’s Toby Samuel due to face Zizou Bergs in the first men's semi-final and Jack Draper set against sixth seed Ugo Humbert. coverage for the event runs from Monday, 22 June to Sunday, 27 June, with live coverage available from 11:00 BST on iPlayer, Red Button and the Sport website and app.
The unanswered piece is plain enough. Neither retirement was explained in the live update, and that leaves the final pairing in place but the circumstances around both women’s exits still unclear.
