Romanian tennis player Simona Halep advanced on Saturday to the final of the WTA Prague Open after defeating her fellow national Irina Begu 7-6 (3), 6-3.
Top seed Halep (28, WTA No. 2) clinched the victory in one hour and 31 minutes, her seventh in just as many encounters with 29-year-old Begu (WTA No. 82).
The first set was evenly balanced until the second half, when Begu managed a break and took the lead 5-3. Halep recovered and restored parity at 5-5, and eventually prevailed in the tiebreak 7-2.
In the second set, a dominant Halep led 2-0 and 3-1, Begu leveled the score at 3-3, but succumbed in the end to tiredness (having finished her quarter-final match earlier in the day), and the reigning Wimbledon champion won the set 6-3.
In the seven duels between Halep and Begu, the latter only won one set, 6-0 in the 2016 Madrid quarterfinals.
Begu advanced to the semifinals on Saturday, after defeating Spaniard Sara Sorribes Tormo 6-2, 4-6, 6-2 in a match continued from Thursday night.
Simona Halep will play in the final Belgium's Elise Mertens, seed No. 3, who defeated Kristyna Pliskova (Czech Republic) 7-5, 7-6 (4).
Halep leads 3-1 the head-to-head with Mertens (24, No. 23 WTA). The two last faced off at the beginning of the year in the Australian Open round of sixteen, when the Romanian won 6-4, 6-4.
Simona Halep secured a check of $14,000 and 180 WTA points, while Begu gets $8,035 and 110 WTA points.
Simona Halep books spot in Prague Open final
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