Coco Gauff beats Kiki Bertens for first Top 10 win of career in Austria
Coco Gauff claimed her first Top 10 scalp of her career to reach the semi-finals of this Upper Austria Ladies Linz.
The 15-year-old American needed a lucky loser spot to get into the primary attraction but has obtained her chance superbly, along with a 7-6 (7-1) 6-4 success on the world No 8 Kiki Bertens gave her the biggest win, by ranking, of her first career.
Gauff, who was guaranteed to break into the Top 100 on Monday, is the youngest woman since Nicole Vaidisova won Tashkent in October 2004, to reach a WTA Tour semi-final.
The 97-minute victory over Bertens means that she will take to get a place inside her first-ever WTA singles final on Andrea Petkovic of Germany.
Petkovic prevailed over Viktoria Kuzmova 6-4 6-1 to ensure she would be within the previous four.
Jelena Ostapenko taking facing the seed Ekaterina Alexandrova is seen by the quarter-finals on the side of this draw.
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