MOSCOW, September 19 (RIA Novosti) - Czech tennis player Karolina Pliskova has become the first semifinalist at the Kia Korean Open, a Women's Tennis Association (WTA) tournament in Seoul, Korea with a prize fund of $500,000 on Friday.
Second-seed Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic beat Nicole Gibbs of the United States 6-3, 6-4. The match lasted for 1 hour and 14 minutes.
That was the second match between the pair, with the first one in 2011 in the United States in which Gibbs won.
In order to reach the finals, Pliskova will have to compete with the winner of the match between Maria Kirilenko of Russia and Kaia Kanepi of Estonia, seeded sixth.
The Kia Korean Open takes place in Seoul from September 15 to September 21. Seoul has hosted the WTA tournament since 2004 at Seoul Olympic Park Tennis Center, the 1988 Summer Olympics facility, which has also hosted South Korean Davis Cup and Fed Cup ties.
