Tennis: French teen Dodin advances to first WTA final

17 Sep, 2016

QUEBEC CITY: French teen Oceane Dodin fired 17 aces Saturday in defeating American Julia Boserup 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, to reach her first WTA final at the Quebec City hardcourt tournament.

The 19-year-old from Lille, ranked 132nd in the world, took one hour and 44 minutes to dispatch Boserup, 25, to reach Sunday's title match.

Dodin, who had never played in a WTA quarter-final until this week, will next face the winner of a later semi-final between two qualifiers, 104th-ranked American Lauren Davis and 233rd-ranked Czech Tereza Martincova.

None of the remaining players have ever won a WTA crown.

Boserup, ranked 125th, had not reached a WTA semi-final since 2014.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2016

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