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Tennis: Caroline Wozniacki to face Sabalenka in Eastbourne final

Friday, 29 June 2018, 14:30 Last update: about 7 years ago

Top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki reached her third Eastbourne International final when she beat Angelique Kerber 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3 on Friday.

Wozniacki will face the unseeded Aryna Sabalenka for the first time for the title, after the Belarusian defeated 2008 champion Agnieszka Radwanska 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 in the first semifinal.

Wozniacki saved a match point at 5-6 in the second set against Kerber, and prevailed in 2 hours, 17 minutes.

She won the title in 2009 and was runner-up last year.

Sabalenka was through to her third career final at Eastbourne. She lost the two previous finals in Tianjin last year and Lugano in April.

She finished off the first set with her first ace but, after breaking Radwanska in the first game of the second set, she began spraying her shots and lost six games in a row.

Radwanska was serving a break up at 3-2, 40-0 in the third when Sabalenka powered back winning four straight games, saving a break point in the last.

Sabalenka has beaten three top-20 players this week, including No. 7 and defending champion Karolina Pliskova on Thursday.

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