Robin Anderson will play for the singles title in Redding, Calif., again.
The unseeded former UCLA star from Matawan, N.J., beat fourth-seeded Jovana
Jaksic, a Serbian living in Sacramento, 6-4, 6-3 today in the $25,000 Ascension
Project Women's Challenger at Sun Oaks Tennis & Fitness.
The 24-year-old Anderson, only 5-foot-3 (1.61 meters), had eight aces and no
double faults as she upset a seed for the third time in the tournament. She
knocked off No. 2 Ulrikke Eikeri of Norway in the first round and No. 5 Karman
Kaur Thandi of India in the quarterfinals.
Anderson, the 2013 runner-up to Adriana Perez of
Venezuela, will try to make it four seeds when she meets No.
6 Chanel Simmonds of South Africa on Sunday after the
1 p.m. doubles final.
Simmonds, a 25-year-old left-hander, has played only 19 minutes total in the
last two rounds. She led 4-1 today when eighth-seeded Katie Swan of Great
Britain retired with an upper-leg injury. Qualifier Urszula
Radwanska, the younger sister of 11th-ranked Agnieszka Radwanska, withdrew from
her quarterfinal against Simmonds with foot blisters.
Simmonds, 5-foot-5 (1.65 meters), and Anderson have met once. Simmonds won 6-1,
1-6, 7-5 in the first round of qualifying for the $50,000 Lexington (Ky.)
Challenger on a hardcourt in 2015.
In Sunday's doubles final, third-seeded Harriet Dart of Great Britain and Maria
Sanchez from Modesto will play unseeded Daneika Borthwick of
Great Britain and Ana Veselinovic of Montenegro. Sanchez won the
2011 doubles title with since-retired Yasmin
Schnack of Sacramento.
Admission to the tournament is free. Here are the singles and doubles draws
and Sunday's
schedule.
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