Jennifer Brady has reached the first WTA final of her career by using a power-based game to beat 16-year-old Coco Gauff 6-2 6-4 at the Top Seed Open.
Brady, 25, will face Jil Teichmann, a 23-year-old left-hander from Switzerland, in Sunday’s title match.
Neither finalist has dropped a set at the hard-court tune-up for the US Open, which starts on August 31 in New York.
Brady has lost just 17 games through four matches and was broken only once – by Gauff.
Teichmann reached the third final of her career – and first on a hard court – by eliminating Shelby Rogers 6-3 6-2 in the day’s opening semi-final.
The 116th-ranked Rogers, who is from South Carolina, was coming off a quarter-final upset of Serena Williams on Friday.
Both of Teichmann’s previous WTA titles came on clay in 2019, at Palermo, Italy, and Prague.