Lexington tennis semi-finals: Jen Brady beats Coco Gauff, Jil Teichmann overpowers Shelby Rogers

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Swiss left-hander Jil Teichmann goes after her third career WTA title when she faces American Jen Brady in Sunday’s final of the Top Seed O...

Swiss left-hander Jil Teichmann goes after her third career WTA title when she faces American Jen Brady in Sunday’s final of the Top Seed Open after both won Saturday semi-finals.

Teichmann took a 6-3, 6-2 triumph over American Shelby Rogers, who eliminated ninth-ranked Serena Williams in the quarter-finals.

“For sure I’m going into the final confident,” Teichmann said.

Brady defeated US 16-year-old Coco Gauff 6-2, 6-4 in the other semi at Lexington, Kentucky.

Teichmann hasn’t dropped a set all week at the no-fans-allowed event, created in the wake of Covid-19 rescheduling issues as the first WTA event in the United States since the season was halted.

“I don’t have an answer for why I haven’t lost any sets,” Teichmann said. “I just feel very good on court. I feel calm. I can see the ball. I guess that helps me a lot.”

Teichmann, ranked 63rd, won both prior WTA finals appearances, downing host-nation heroine Karolina Muchova at the 2019 Prague Open and Dutch star Kiki Bertens at the 2019 Palermo International.

“I have a good record in the finals,” Teichmann said. “But that doesn’t mean anything.”

It will be Teichmann’s first WTA hardcourt final and the first WTA...

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