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Simona Halep produced an incredible escape act to reach the French Open semi-finals on Wednesday, while Karolina Pliskova ended the run of the lone remaining home hope Caroline Garcia. Romanian third seed Halep saved a match point as she trailed Elina Svitolina 6-3, 5-1 before launching a sensational comeback to stun the Ukrainian in three sets.
Fifth seed Svitolina twice served for the match at 5-2 and 5-4 in the second set and then had match point at 6/5 in the tie-break. But she failed to put away Halep and the 2014 Roland Garros runner-up powered through the decider in just 20 minutes to complete a remarkable 3-6, 7-6 (8/6), 6-0 victory. "I don't know how I came back. It was really tough. She was playing hard and strong. I was a little bit lucky, I can say," said Halep, who grabbed the second set on a fortuitous net cord winner.
"I think I was strong mentally. I didn't give up. That's maybe why I won this match." Svitolina, 22, had looked well-set to become the first Ukrainian woman to make a Grand Slam semi-final. She allowed Halep just four winners in the first set and coasted to within sight of the last four, but the Romanian ran away with 12 of the last 13 games to avenge her loss in the Rome final.
"I let her back into the game a little bit," admitted Svitolina, who will rise to a career-high of fifth next week despite the defeat. "I don't really need to talk about this match as a bad experience. "I'm sad today but tomorrow is another day and life continues, there's nothing I can do." Svitolina, who had been two points from defeat in the fourth round against Petra Martic, finished the quarter-final with 45 unforced errors. Halep will meet second seed Pliskova for a place in Saturday's final after the second defeated Garcia 7-6 (7/3), 6-4.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2017

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