Coco Gauff beats Kiki Bertens for first Top 10 win of career in Austria
Coco Gauff maintained her first scalp of her career to get to the semi-finals of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.
The 15-year-old American needed a lucky loser place to enter the primary draw but has obtained her opportunity superbly, and also a 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 victory on the world No 8 Kiki Bertens gave her the biggest win, by standing, of her early career.
Gauff, that was guaranteed to split the Top 100 is the youngest woman since Nicole Vaidisova won Tashkent in October 2004, to reach an WTA Tour semi-final.
The 97-minute success over Bertens signifies that she will take for a place in her first-ever WTA singles final on Andrea Petkovic of Germany.
Petkovic prevailed over Viktoria Kuzmova 6-4 6-1 to ensure that she would be within the last four.
The quarter-finals on the side of the draw view Jelena Ostapenko taking facing the seed Ekaterina Alexandrova.
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