Australia's No.1 women's tennis player Daria Gavrilova has continued her strong US Open preparations with a straight-sets win over Kirsten Flipkens in the quarter-finals of the Connecticut Open.
Gavrilova progressed to the semi-finals with a 6-2 6-4 win over the world No.76 from Belgium.
"After the first set I looked at the stats and saw I saved six break points and thought 'oooh, that's pretty good'," Gavrilova said.
"My plan was to be aggressive. She's a very tricky player. I got fired up the second set."
The Australian will play defending champion and top seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the semi-finals after she beat Shuai Peng 7-5 6-3, also on Thursday.
Gavrilova is yet to win a match at the US Open, which begins on Monday, where she was eliminated at the first hurdle in 2015 and 2016, and is still chasing a maiden WTA title.
She made the final in Strasbourg in May, where she lost to Samantha Stosur, the player she usurped as Australia's top-ranked woman the following month.
The other women's semi-final in Connecticut will feature second-seeded Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia and Elise Mertens of Belgium.
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