Quebecer Leylah Fernandez qualified for the final of the Rothesay International, a grass tournament, on Friday.
Fernandez defeated defending champion Madison Keys in three sets of 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in this booster tournament ahead of Wimbledon.
The Laval player will now face the winner of the other semi-final, which pits Jasmine Paolini against Daria Kasatkina.
Saturday’s match will be Fernandez’s sixth career final, but her first on grass. It will also be her first at a WTA 500 or better event since the 2021 US Open.
Ontario’s Gabriela Dabrowski and her partner, New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe, will play for the women’s doubles title in Eastbourne on Saturday, after beating Spain’s Cristina Bucsa and Japan’s Makoto Ninomiya 6-7 (2), 6- 4, 10-8 in the semi-final.
Dabrowski and Routliffe, a dual citizen who grew up in Caledon, Ont., will face the winners of the other semifinal, which pits the duo of Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden against the pair of Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko.
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