Fourth seed Elena Rybakina ended world primary Iga Swiatek’s latest dominance on the Stuttgart Open, successful in three units to achieve the ultimate.
Kazakhstan’s Rybakina, 24, beat the Polish prime seed 6-3 4-6 6-3, halting her 10-match win streak on the occasion.
Swiatek had received the earlier two editions of the WTA 500 event.
Rybakina faces Ukraine’s unseeded Marta Kostyuk in Sunday’s closing after she beat Marketa Vondrousova 7-6 (2) 6-2.
“It was, like all the time a really robust match and I used to be combating for each ball, it was such an in depth match,” mentioned Rybakina.
“I am actually comfortable that I managed to win and I confirmed recreation.”
4-time Grand Slam winner Swiatek began brightly on her favoured clay floor, breaking within the opening recreation and holding serve earlier than Rybakina bounced again, successful 5 video games in a row on her method to claiming the primary set.
The pair held serve for the primary 9 video games of the second earlier than Swiatek broke decisively to power a 3rd set.
However Rybakina, a Wimbledon champion in 2022, then broke to make it 3-2 within the third earlier than seeing out victory with a second break.
Rybakina will contest the ultimate in opposition to Kostyuk, who got here again from 5-1 down within the opening set to beat Czech Wimbledon champion and sixth seed Vondrousova.