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Qualifier Anna-Lena Friedsam backed up her victory over Emma Raducanu with a 1-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 quarter-final win over Diane Parry at the Slovenian Open.
After seeing off 2021 US Open champion Raducanu on Thursday, Friedsam continued her run with a superb comeback win to book her place in the semi-finals.
A rough start looked to have primed Friedsam for the exit door, but after prevailing in the second set, the 28-year-old pushed on to take herself within a match of a third career WTA Tour-level final.
She will have to wait to discover whether she will face defending champion Jasmine Paolini however, with the Italian’s own quarter-final in Portoroz against Katerina Siniakova delayed until Saturday.
Third seed Elena Rybakina, meanwhile, will face Romania’s Ana Bogdan after the Wimbledon champion was handed a walkover following Lesia Tsurenko’s withdrawal.
Bogdan reached her second tour-level semi-final of the season by upsetting second seed Beatriz Haddad Maia, recording her 20th win over a top-20 opponent in the process, albeit her first since the 2018 Australian Open.
At the Chennai Open, 17-year-old Linda Fruhvirtova stunned Varvara Gracheva 6-4 6-3 to reach her first Tour-level semi-final.
Briton Katie Swan continued her impressive run with a 6-3 3-6 6-3 win over qualifier Nao Hibino and she will face Poland’s Magda Linette, the highest-ranked player left in the competition, in the last four.
Fruhvirtova will go up against Nadia Podoroska, who came from a set down to defeat Eugenie Bouchard.
