Petra Kvitova and Donna Vekic to face off in Berlin final after marathon day

With Friday's scheduled quarter-finals having been washed out by rain, Kvitova first saw off number three seed Caroline Garcia 6-4 7-6 (3) to progress to the last four.

Czech player Kvitova, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, then returned later to defeat ˜s-Hertogenbosch champion Ekaterina Alexandra 6-3 6-4.

Vekic, meanwhile, knocked out lucky loser Elina Avanesyan 6-2 7-6 (0) and then battled past sixth seed Maria Sakkari 6-4 7-6 (8) to reach her 12th career final.

Alexandrova was the only semi-finalist not to have played twice on Saturday after Veronika Kudermetova had earlier withdrawn from their last-eight match because of a hip injury.

Meanwhile, at the Rothesay Classic in Birmingham, former French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova will return to the top 10 after reaching her first grass-court final.

The Czech claimed her maiden singles grand slam title in 2021 but missed a chunk of last season with an elbow injury and dropped down the rankings.

Now the 27-year-old is back on the up and she is yet to drop a set so far at Edgbaston Priory, easing to a 6-3 6-2 victory over China™s Zhu Lin in the semi-finals.

It will be a battle of the top two seeds in the final, but second seed Jelena Ostapenko has had a contrasting path.

The powerful Latvian survived her third close three-setter in as many days, seeing off Russian Anastasia Potapova 5-7 6-2 6-4.