Jakupovic to face Xinyun in Aurangabad tennis final

Slovakian tennis player Dalila Jakupovic will take on Chinese eighth seed Xinyun Han in the women's singles final of the $25,000 Aurangabad Open Women's ITF Championships here Saturday.

In the semi-finals Friday, Jakupovic scraped past Marie Benoit of Belgium 6-0, 4-6, 7-6(3) in a three-hour tussle. Meanwhile, Xinyun stopped the winning run of 22-year-old Bulgarian Aleksandrina Naydenova by winning 6-1, 7-5 in an hour and 52 minutes.