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Konta overtakes Keys in three-set thriller to reach final of China Open

Xinhua, October 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

Eleventh-seeded Johanna Konta of Britain overtook Madison Keys of the United States in a highly contested semifinal 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-4 at the China Open here on Saturday.

It was a remarkably well-matched paring between the two, with both players saving an equal number of break points in the first set.

Keys' strong forehand gave her the momentum several times in the first set, but in the end the American was unable to match Konta's strength on return.

Keys then returned however to take the second set 6-4, but Konta stepped it up in the third set winning 73 percent of her points on the first service.

Konta goes on to meet either Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland or Elina Svitolina from Ukraine in the final. Endit