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Elena Rybakina will play her fourth final of the season after a 7-6 (7\/5), 7-6 (7\/2) defeat of Petra Martic on Friday at the Dubai Championships.<\/p>\n
The Kazakh who has won a WTA-leading 19 matches in 2020, took two and a quarter hours to outlast her move experienced Croatian opponent who led 3-0 in the second set.<\/p>\n
The 19th-ranked Rybakina will play for the title on Saturday against the winner from top seed Simon Halep and US qualifier Jennifer Brady.<\/p>\n
Rybakina won the Hobart title last month and finished runner-up in Shenzhen and St Petersburg.<\/p>\n
After a modest 2019 season, the 20-year-old has improved 150 places to 19th in the rankings.<\/p>\n
“It’s amazing,” she said. “Hopefully, I can continue to play like this this year and next year also.<\/p>\n
“The first set, it was not easy because she plays good, with really good slices.<\/p>\n
“In the second set, of course, I was 3-0 down, but I knew it was going to be easier to win that set than play a third one.<\/p>\n
“In the important moments I managed to serve really good. I was fighting every point, just fighting.”<\/p>\n
Martic, ranked 15th, reached the semis without losing a set. She has yet to win a career title.<\/p>\n
Rybakina saved set points in both sets. In the opener she also wasted three set points before ending the tie break with a crisp volley winner at the net.<\/p>\n
She went down a break early in the second set to trail 3-0 but hit back to level at 4-4.<\/p>\n
Rybakina saved a pair of set points in the 12th game to force a tiebreaker and dominated in the decider to advance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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