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Gastein a milestone for Olaru, Petkovic

Associated Press

Saturday, July 25, 2009

BAD GASTEIN, Austria -- Ioana Raluca Olaru of Romania and Andrea Petkovic of Germany reached their first career WTA Tour final Saturday at the Nuernberger Gastein Ladies. Olaru upset top-seeded Alize Cornet of France 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, and Petkovic routed Yaroslava Shvedova of Kazakhstan 6-2, 6-1. The 66th-ranked Olaru is 2-1 against the 98th-ranked Petkovic. The German won their last hard-court match, in Indian Wells in March, but Olaru's victories both came on clay, the same surface as at Bad ...

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