Stosur into Austrian final

Samantha Stosur has won through to the final of Austria's Gastein Ladies tournament with a 6-1 7-5 win over Slovakia's Anna Karolina Schmiedlova.

Samantha Stosur of Australia

Samantha Stosur has won through to the final of Austria's Gastein Ladies tournament. (AAP)

Samantha Stosur has reached her second final of the season, beating Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia 6-1 7-5 at Austria's Gastein Ladies.

The 23rd-ranked Australian, who won her seventh career title in Strasbourg in May, will now play top-seeded Sara Errani or fellow Italian Karin Knapp in Sunday's final.

The second-seeded Stosur avoided break points, and won five games in a row from 1-1 to comfortably take the opening set.

She missed four break points in the opening game of the second set and fell 5-2 behind, before winning five straight games again.

The 44th-ranked Schmiedlova, who won the title in Bucharest last week, saw her eight-match winning streak ended.


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