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Her opponent in that final will be Italy’s Francesca Schiavone, who won a first set tie break 7-3 against Russian fifth seed Elena Dementieva who then quit because of a calf muscle injury.
The pair have played five times with Stosur winning the last four in straight sets.
The Australian’s crushing one hour-long win over fourth seed Jankovic put her into her first Grand Slam title at the age of 26, almost four years younger than Evonne Cawley was when she won the last of her seven Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in 1980.
For former world number one Jankovic the loss is another heavy blow to her hopes of finally winning a Grand Slam title at what was her 27th attempt.
Gold Coast resident Stosur opened strongly against Jankovic although she did not need to produce anything out of the ordinary as the Serb, clad in a bright yellow outfit, struggled with her game.
The Australian converted her third break point of the fourth game to take a 3-1 led and she then rattled off the next three games to take the set in just 24 minutes.
Jankovic, who was casting anxious glances at her coach and mother in the players’ box, finally settled down her game to open the second set.
She then broke the Stosur serve for the first time in the second game after producing her first winner of the match.
But she promptly gave that back in the following game handing over the momentum to Stosur who levelled and then broke again to take a 3-2 lead.
There was no way back for Jankovic as the Australian inexorably moved within one match win of ending one of the longest and most painful droughts in Australian sport.
Schiavone became the first Italian woman to reach a Grand Slam final on Thursday when Dementieva retired at the end of the first set.
The 29-year-old Italian won the opener 7-6 (3) when fifth seeded Dementieva, who revealed she was suffering from a calf tear, quit in tears after 70 minutes on court.
The tearful conclusion to the match extended Dementieva’s unwanted record of having played 46 Grand Slam tournaments without winning a major title, the longest streak in the women’s game.
Having been the runner-up in 2004, she was the overwhelming favourite to reach Saturday’s title match. —
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