Bucharest (Romania) July 22 (IANS) Top-seeded Latvian Anastasija Sevastova advanced to the Bucharest Open final when her opponent Polona Hercog was forced to retire due to injury.
The eighth-seeded Slovenian had lost the first set 6-1 when she decided not to continue sending the 28-year-old Sevastova into her sixth career final and third on clay reports Efe.
Sevastova the runner-up at this year s Mallorca Open a grass-court event in Spain will take on fourth-seeded Croatian Petra Martic in a bid to win her third career Women s Tennis Association (WTA) title and first this year.
Martic defeated second-seeded Romanian Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-4 6-4 on Saturday in one hour and 45 minutes to advance to her second WTA final.
In her only other appearance in a championship match the 27-year-old Croat lost to Taiwan s Hsieh Su-wei in the 2012 Malaysian Open final.

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