Second-seeded Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova and sixth-seeded Swiss Patty Schnyder will meet in the final of the Generali Ladies Linz on Sunday.
World No.10 Daniela Hantuchova stormed back from a third-set deficit and also saved a match point against fifth seed Nicole Vaidisova to win 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3) and advance to the Linz final. This was the first time Hantuchova defeated Vaidisova.
The Slovakian will seek her third career title on Sunday, and her second title of 2007 (after winning Indian Wells in March).
In the other semifinal match Patty Schnyder beat third seed Marion Bartoli of France 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. Bartoli came back twice from a break down in the first set, but Schnyder won the tie-break. At 5-1 in the second, Schnyder missed three match points on Bartoli’s serve and was broken afterward, but then closed it out on her fourth match point as Bartoli hit a forehand wide.
The 17th-ranked Swiss hopes that on Sunday she will win her 11th career title, and the first one since 2005.
Hantuchova and Schnyder have met 16 times so far, and they are 8-8, but the Slovak won five of their last six matches.
