Teenager Tauson finds form that saw off Raducanu to reach Luxembourg final

Raducanu
recovered
from
that
setback
in
the
final
of
August’s
Challenger
tournament
in
the
Windy
City,
charging
to
a
shock
Flushing
Meadows
triumph,
but
fellow
18-year-old
Tauson
awaits
her
big
breakthrough
at
the
majors.

Tauson
took
down
a
former
French
Open
runner-up
and
current
Olympic
silver
medallist
in
reaching
the
Luxembourg
final,
beating
Marketa
Vondrousova
in
three
sets,
and
now
must
overcome
a
player
who
has
been
champion
at
Roland
Garros
in
Ostapenko.

She
prised
the
vital
break
of
serve
in
the
ninth
game
of
the
decider
against
Vondrousova,
upping
the
power
in
her
shots,
before
serving
out
for
a
6-4
2-6
6-4
victory.

Tauson
will
be
going
for
a
second
title
of
the
year,
having
won
the
Lyon
Open
in
March.

Smells
like
teen
spirit
????

18-year-old
????????
Clara
Tauson
reaches
her
second
WTA
final
of
the
season
with
a
three-set
victory
over
Vondrousova!#LuxembourgOpen
pic.twitter.com/Urc9mNis6A

—
wta
(@WTA)

September
18,
2021

Defending
champion
Ostapenko
raced
to
a
6-1
5-1
lead
over
Liudmila
Samsonova
but
then
began
to
misfire
and
had
to
scramble
from
the
brink
of
being
taken
to
a
third
set.

Ostapenko
eventually
prevailed
6-1
7-6
(7-4),
having
trailed
4-1
in
the
tie-break,
and
she
will
attempt
to
scoop
a
fifth
WTA
title
on
Sunday.
Her
most
recent
came
at
Eastbourne
in
the
week
before
Wimbledon.

At
the
WTA
tournament
in
the
Slovenian
town
of
Portoroz,
Sunday’s
final
will
feature
American
Alison
Riske
and
Italy’s
Jasmine
Paolini.

Riske
denied
Slovenian
Kaja
Juvan
a
place
in
a
home
final,
earning
a
6-0
6-4
win
in
their
semi-final,
while
Paolini
sprang
a
shock
by
beating
Kazakhstan’s
Yulia
Putintseva
1-6
6-3
6-4.