Stosur to face Schiavone in final

French Open
Venue: Roland Garros, Paris Date: 23 May-6 June
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Stosur was a beaten semi-finalist at the 2009 French Open

By Piers Newbery BBC Sport at Roland Garros

Australia's Sam Stosur stormed into her first Grand Slam final with a crushing win over fourth seed Jelena Jankovic at the French Open.

The 26-year-old from Brisbane followed up earlier wins over pre-tournament favourites Justine Henin and Serena Williams with a 6-1 6-2 demolition of Jankovic in 60 minutes.

Stosur will play Francesca Schiavone for the title on Saturday after the Italian became the first woman from her country to reach a Grand Slam final when Elena Dementieva retired from their semi-final.

With all four semi-finalists chasing a first Grand Slam title, and Henin and Williams now absent, the golden opportunity to win a major brought an added level of pressure.

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It has been Stosur who has grabbed the headlines in Paris and the momentum going into the match appeared to be with her after claiming such illustrious scalps.

Jankovic had made a more low-key passage through the draw, but the Serb is a former world number one and three-time semi-finalist at Roland Garros with recent wins over both Williams sisters at the Italian Open.

Any thoughts that Stosur might suffer an emotional hangover from those high-profile victories was swept away within 24 minutes as she broke twice to roar through the opening set.

Twelve Stosur winners to none from Jankovic told of the Australian's dominance and the Serb needed to put the brakes on her opponent quickly or risk an embarrassingly swift exit.

The early stages of the second set were at least competitive after Jankovic arrowed a forehand past Stosur at the net to break to love for 2-0, only for her to hand the advantage straight back in the following game and then miss four break points in game four.

Stosur had survived wobbles in her previous two wins and her growing experience of high-pressure matches came to the fore as she sent a backhand dipping towards Jankovic's feet and calmly clipped away the resultant short ball for a break at 3-2.

Much of the reason Jankovic had got back into the match at all was down to the disappearance of the Stosur first serve early in the second set, but the Aussie came through a testing moment with a superb kicking second serve at 30-30 and held to edge 4-2 clear.

Jankovic's forehand was now all over the place and it gave up three chances for Stosur to get the double-break, which she finally did after the Serb netted a backhand.

Stosur is now well accustomed to closing out major matches and she did so comfortably to become the first Australian woman to reach a Grand Slam final since Wendy Turnbull at the 1980 Australian Open.

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