AFP, Beijing :
Second seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland easily won her semi-final match at the Tianjin Open on Saturday, setting up a final that will pit her against unseeded Danka Kovinic of Montengero.
Radwanska, ranked sixth in the world, beat third seed Czech Karolina Pliskova in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1.
Kovinic, meanwhile, beat Bojana Jovanovski of Serbia 6-2, 6-7, 6-2 in over two hours of play.
The semi final matches were played in extremely poor air quality, with government data showing levels of PM2.5 particulates — small enough to deeply penetrate the lungs — nearly eight times the maximum recommended by the World Health Organization in a 24-hour period.
The $500,000 (440,000-euro) WTA tournament has seen a run of upsets, the most spectacular when Italian top seed Flavia Pennetta, who won the US Open last month, went out to a player ranked more than 400 places below her, Ukraine’s Lyudmyla Kichenok.
