Romania’s tennis star Simona Halep managed to beat Danish player Caroline Wozniacki in the Dubai Duty Free tennis championship semifinals, and advances to the final. Halep, number 4 WTA, faced Wozniacki, number 5 WTA, in a match which lasted about an hour and a half.

In tomorrow’s final in Doha, Halep, first runner up for the title, will face Karolina Pliskova for the first time. Pliskova won against Garbine Muguruza, 6-4, 5-7, 7-5, in a match on Friday afternoon (February 20), just before the Halep – Wozniacki match. This will be Simona's 16th final, and her first Dubai championship final.

Wozniacki won the first set 2-6, after a weak start for the Romanian, but Halep managed to catch up and breezed through the second set, which she won 6-1, and then through the third, which ended 6-1.

It was the third time the two played against each other. Each of them won a match so far: Wozniacki in 2013, and Halep in 2014.

Halep made it to the Doha semifinals after beating Ekaterina Makarova, 6-3, 1-6, 7-5, in a two-hour match.

The final in Dubai will take place on Saturday, February 21, after 5 PM Romania time, after the doubles final.

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