Budapest: Saturday's Order of Play and Match Points

KÖRMÖCZY COURT (starts 3pm)
[1] Kirsten FLIPKENS (BEL) / Johanna LARSSON (SWE) vs Irina BARA (ROU) / Mihaela BUZARNESCU (ROU)
Not before 5pm
[1] Dominika CIBULKOVA (SVK) vs Mona BARTHEL (GER)
[LL] Viktoria KUZMOVA (SVK) vs Alison VAN UYTVANCK (BEL)
MATCH POINTS
This is the sixth tournament Dominika Cibulkova has entered as No.1 seed - and on all previous occasions, the Slovak has either lost her opening match or reached the final. She lost in the first round of Québec City in 2012 to Kirsten Flipkens, the second round of Moscow in 2014 to Vitalia Diatchenko and the first round of 's-Hertogenbosch last year to Antonia Lottner; but was runner-up in Kuala Lumpur to Donna Vekic
Viktoria Kuzmova, who lost in the final round of qualifying to Ysaline Bonaventure before Kristyna Pliskova's withdrawal allowed her into the main draw, is bidding to become the first lucky loser to reach a final since CoCo Vandeweghe at Stanford in 2012.
If Dominika Cibulkova and Viktoria Kuzmova both win their semifinals, they will set up the second all-Slovak final in WTA history following Pattaya in 2003, when Henrieta Nagyova defeated Lubomira Kurhajcova 6-4, 6-2 to win the last of her nine titles.
Alison Van Uytvanck will bid to make her second career final today following her title run at Québec City last year. The Belgian has a 1-4 record in WTA semifinals to date. Mona Barthel
19-year-old Viktoria Kuzmova is the first teenage semifinalist of 2018, and is seeking to become the first teenager to play a WTA final since Aryna Sabalenka
Both semifinals today are first meetings for both pairs of opponents.