Summary Sabine Lisicki will meet Marina Erakovic in women's title match at US Indoor Tennis Championships.
MEMPHIS (AFP) - Big-hitting German Sabine Lisicki will be gunning for a fourth WTA tour crown on Saturday when she takes on Marina Erakovic in the women s title match at the US Indoor Tennis Championships.
Lisicki, the third seed, fell behind in each set but dug deep for a 7-5, 7-5 victory over seventh-seeded Magdalena Rybarikova on Friday in the semi-finals of this combined ATP and WTA event.
Rybarikova led 5-2 in the first set with set point, and led 5-4 in the second set with set point.
But Lisicki held on and won the last five games of the first set and the last three games of the second to reach a seventh career final.
New Zealand s Erakovic defeated Switzerland s Stefanie Voegele 6-2, 6-4 to earn a shot at a first WTA title.
She ll be playing in her third career final, after runner-up finishes at Quebec City in 2011 and in Memphis last year.
