Daria Gavrilova cruises into Hong Kong Open finals

Daria Gavrilova produced her best performance of the week to cruise into the Hong Kong Open final with a 6-0, 7-5 defeat of Jennifer Brady on Saturday.

She will face Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in Sunday's final after the Russian sixth seed also completed a comfortable win, 6-3, 6-4 against China's Wang Qiang in the second semi-final.

Naturalised Australian



seventh seed Gavrilova, who was born in Moscow, sped through the first set in 22 minutes, dropping just four points on her own serve as her American opponent looked overawed in her first WTA Tour semi-final.

"I feel like today was my best performance since I've been in Asia," said a delighted world number 22 Gavrilova, who broke the American's serve seven times on the way to a dominant win.