For the first time in her life, including juniors, Coco Gauff entered a tournament as a lucky loser, then she made her first WTA quarterfinals, followed by her first semis, and now the 15-year-old is through to her first WTA final at the Upper Austria Ladies Open.
The world No.110 Gauff thought she was out of the tournament in qualifying, when she failed to make the main draw by losing to Tamara Korpatsch, but a lucky loser entrance gave her the second life and the American teenager kept dispatching opponents, from Stephanie Voegele and Kateryna Kozlova, to top seed Kiki Bertens and former world No.