Fruhvirtova beats second seed Gracheva, into Chennai last four
Linda Fruhvirtova won against Varvara Gracheva 6-4, 6-3 on Friday afternoon and will play Argentinian Nadia Podoroska in the next round
Linda Fruhvirtova (Chennai Open Twitter)
Czech Linda Fruhvirtova won against Russian Varvara Gracheva, the second seed, 6-4, 6-3 to reach the last 4 of the Chennai Open on Friday.
The 17-year-old, ranked No 130, will play Argentinian Nadia Podoroska next.
Fruhvirtova beat qualifier En-Shuo Liang (4-6, 6-1, 6-3) and Swede Rebecca Peterson, the No 5 seed (6-4, 6-2) earlier in the tournament.
It follows her run at the US Open where she made it out of qualifying before falling to ninth seed Garbine Muguruza in the second round.
In the previous rounds, Gracheva, ranked No 80, won against qualifier Mariia Tkacheva (6-3, 6-2) and Canadian Carol Zhao (6-1, 7-5).
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