Jelena Ostapenko and Annika Beck defeated Naomi Broady and Mirjana Lucic-Baroni, respectively, to book their places in the singles final of the Coupe Banque Nationale in Quebec City, Canada.

Ostapenko Ends Broady's Stellar Week

The first semifinal of the day featured Jelena Ostapenko and Naomi Broady. Ostapenko has had a superb week in Quebec City thus far, as she defeated third seed Mona Barthel, qualifier Jessica Pegula and Paula Kania. The 18-year old showed a lot of heart in her first two matches of the week and rolled right past Kania at the loss of just one game.

In the semifinal, she would have to play lucky loser Naomi Broady. Broady originally lost to Pegula -- whom Ostapenko beat -- in the final round of qualifying. But after Klara Koukalova withdrew, the Brit had another chance to play in Quebec City, given that she was the highest ranked player to lose in the final round of qualifying. Broady capitalized on her spot in the main draw, winning three matches against Alla Kudryavtseva and Americans Alexa Glatch and Anna Tatishvili. The Stockport-native from England's big serve and powerful ground strokes were enough to get wins over players who have been playing some pretty good tennis in recent months.

In this encounter, it was Broady who had many chances to break Ostapenko's serve, an area the Latvian has really struggled to find any consistency with on the WTA tour thus far. But Ostapenko was able to fight off a total of four break points before getting one of her own -- on Broady's serve -- at two-games-all in the opening set. The 18-year old only needed the one opportunity to break for a 3-2 lead. From there, both women continued to hold their respective service games for the rest of the set, despite all of the chances the receiver had to break. As a result, Ostapenko clinched the opening set 6-4.

In the second set, Ostapenko continued to play well, getting as many balls back as she could. Eventually, her efforts were rewarded as she had two break point opportunities on Broady's serve at one-game-all. Just like in the first set, the Latvian only needed one break point opportunity in that game to break, and subsequently went up a set and a break up on her British counterpart.

Ostapenko had to save a break point in the next game but she managed to consolidate the break to go up 3-1. Broady replied with a hold of her own, but it wasn't as emphatic as the ones we have seen from the Brit this week. The story of the match came mostly in Ostapenko's service games. Despite not being as dominant as she would have liked on her own serve, Broady had a total of eleven break points in the entire match, but she was unable to convert *any* of them.

To be fair, Ostapenko was the better player in the entire match, and she was playing within herself, and hitting the ball very cleanly. The Latvian number one would go on to hold her next service game and break Broady once more. In a matter of minutes, the 18-year old had opened up a sizeable 6-4, 5-2 lead. Now serving for the match, Ostapenko quickly went down 0-40, and it looked like Broady was beginning to mount a late comeback. But just like she did the entire match, she fought hard to save all three of those break points to hold, and in this case, win the match. The 18-year old has advanced to her maiden WTA final, with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Naomi Broady.

Beck Battles Past Lucic-Baroni

The second semifinal of the day was contested by fifth seed Annika Beck and second seed, defending champion Mirjana Lucic-Baroni. Beck has had a great week in Quebec City thus far, defeating Sharon Fichman, Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka at the loss of just twelve games. It is no surprise that one of the German number four's best surfaces is an indoor hard court, as she won her maiden WTA title in Luxembourg last year. If she were to give herself another chance to win another WTA title, she would have to get past Mirjana Lucic-Baroni.

Lucic-Baroni has had a very up-and-down year. Despite having wins over top ten players Simona Halep and Karolina Pliskova, the Croat has been unable to string together consecutive wins on a consistent basis on the WTA tour, which is the reasoning behind her inconsistency from tournament-to-tournament. After losing her first round match at the U.S. Open, Lucic-Baroni was eager to come to Quebec City, the place she won her first singles and doubles titles in sixteen years, just over a year ago. Like Beck, the indoor conditions really suit the 33-year-old's aggressive game style and it has shown this week. With wins over dangerous opponents in Canadian Françoise Abanda, Tamira Paszek and Samantha Crawford, Lucic-Baroni looks to be at home on the hard courts of Université Laval.

With both players playing well, this match promised to be one of the best of the tournament. Beck outclassed Lucic-Baroni in the opening set, as her consistency was too much for the Croat -- who was still looking to find her range. The German won it easily by six games to two. The second set was a much different affair in comparison to the first. Lucic-Baroni was beginning to find her range, and her powerful ground strokes were beginning to overwhelm Beck. As a result, the number two seed won the second set 6-2. Which way would the decider go?

The decider began just like the first, with Beck's consistency waring down Lucic-Baroni. In the blink of an eye, both players traded breaks before the German got two extra breaks to open up a sizeable 5-1 lead. Lucic-Baroni did her best to stay in the match, as she held to make Beck serve for a place in the final. Now up 5-2, the 21-year-old fought off two break points before earning herself her first match point of the match. Beck couldn't take the first, nor could she take the second or third and on her fourth break point of the game, Lucic-Baroni broke to keep her hopes of a successful title defence alive. The 33-year-old showed her experience as it looked like all of the momentum was starting to swing in favour of the defending champion. The Croat would go on to hold, and all of a sudden, Beck's 5-1 lead turned into just a 5-4 lead. Could she serve it out?

It turns out, for someone so young but experienced at this professional level already, Beck has been in this position countless times and she was able to use her experience to hold her nerve and serve, to win the match 6-2, 2-6, 6-4.

On Sunday at 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, Jelena Ostapenko will go head-to-head with Annika Beck in the final of the 2015 Coupe Banque Nationale. They have met twice before, with Ostapenko leading the series 2-0. The Latvian defeated the German 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 at the $100,000 event in Contrexeville, France earlier this year, and they meet once again at the U.S. Open. Yet again, it was Ostapenko who triumphed in three sets, winning 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Both women will know what they need to do in order to be successful and this final could become a high quality affair, just like their two previous meetings.

Doubles News: Irigoyen/Kania Advance to the Final of the Doubles Competition

After both semifinals concluded, third seeds Maria Irigoyen and Paula Kania played Naomi Broady and Amandine Hesse. It was the higher ranked and more experienced doubles team of Irigoyen and Kania that came out on top. With a 5-7, 7-5, 10-6 win, the Argentine-Pole team are through to the doubles final. They will play Barbora Krejcikova/An-Sophie Mestach on Sunday at 12 PM, before the singles final.