 Egas Fiontech vs Petra Mardic is the fourth quarter final for the ladies Madrid open for 2023 and both have had tough roads to get to this stage. Mardic started the tournament off as a number 27 seed and will get a buy in the first round. In the second round she take on the qualifier Sigmund but this was no problem getting through in straight sets 7 6 6 3. In the third round she take on Kellen Skyer who had just taken out Rabakina in the previous round and after dropping the second set she had to fight through in 3 6 3 4 6 6 3 to advance to the fourth round. In the fourth round she take on the number 11 seed Kojikova who had been very impressive so far this year but this was no problem for Mardic getting through in straight sets 6 3 7 6 to advance to the quarter finals. Fiontech started the tournament off as the number one seed and will get a buy in the first round. In the second round she take on the lucky loser Grabber but this was no problem for Fiontech getting through in straight sets 6 3 6 2. In the third round she take on the number 28 seed Perra but again this was no problem for Fiontech getting through in straights 6 3 6 2. In the fourth round she take on the 16th seed Alexandrova who had taken out Zheng in the previous round and this is where the battle started. With Fiontech being up a set and a break with Alexandrova coming back to force a third with Fiontech eventually winning in two and a half hours 6 4 6 7 6 3 to advance to the quarter finals. These two have only played the one time before that was at Indian Wells in 2021 with Fiontech getting the easy win back then this is a clay court and it feels like Martich on the clay courts especially with her game might be able to trouble Fiontech a little bit more than she did back then. If Martich is going to win this one she needs to be the big aggressive player she's kind of got a little bit of a similar game to someone like a Garcia or even like an Alexandrova at her best so Martich is going to have to serve well and hit big and be aggressive. If Fiontech is going to win this one she needs to get off to a good start and she needs to keep that start because what we saw in the match against Alexandrova she kind of fell apart at the end of the second set it's a bit strange to see Alexandrova did raise her game because Fiontech needs to get off to that good start and maintain the pressure on Martich. It's going to be a fun matchup because first meeting on clay and I feel like Martich loves playing on this surface as much as Fiontech does and of course we do know Madrid is a bit faster which could mean for some fireworks in this one I'm going to go with Fiontech though in straight steps I think she's going to regroup after a little bit of a glitch that she had against Alexandrova regroup and assert her dominance on this tournament again but let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this one.