FILE PHOTO: Tennis - WTA Premier 5 - Italian Open - Foro Italico, Rome, Italy - May 16, 2019 Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva in action during her second round match against Czech Republic's Petra Kvitova REUTERS/Matteo Ciambelli
(Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva overcame unseeded Sorana Cirstea 6-4 7-5 in the Nuremberg Cup semi-finals on Friday and will face Tamara Zidansek in the final on Saturday.
Putintseva won a three-hour, 21-minute marathon encounter against Anna-Lena Friedsam on Thursday -- the longest women's match of the year so far -- but showed little signs of fatigue as she kept alive hopes of a maiden WTA title.
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