By Adrianna Outlaw | Friday, September 25, 2015
Jelena Jankovic saved match point scoring a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 triumph over Yanina Wickmayer to set up a Guangzhou final against Denisa Allertova.
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Jelena Jankovic staved off match point to snap Yanina Wickmayer's winning streak and advance to the Guangzhou final.
Jankovic saved match point in the 10th game of the final set rallying for a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 victory in two hours, 19 minutes.
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Wickmayer was riding an eight-match winning streak following her title run at the Japan Open last week. Former world No. 1 Jankovic saved six of seven break points in the third set to reach her third final of the season.
The fourth-seeded Serbian will play red-hot Denisa Allertova for the first time in the final.
The 74th-ranked Czech defeated third-seeded Sara Errani, 7-5, 6-2, to surge into her first career WTA final at the Guangzhou Women's Open.
Allertova has upset two of the top three seeds in successive rounds.
She surprised top-seeded Simona Halep, 6-4, 6-3, in the quarterfinals. Allertova broke Errani's second serve nine times scoring her second straight win over a former French Open finalist.