Errani, Vinci cruise into U.S. Open doubles final

6:29 PM, Sep 6, 2012   |    comments
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Flushing Meadows, NY (Sports Network) - French Open singles runner-up Sara Errani and her fellow Italian Roberta Vinci reached the women's doubles final at the 2012 U.S. Open.

Errani and Vinci, the No. 2 seeds, whipped an eighth-seeded Spanish tandem of Nuria Llagostera Vives and Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez 6-3, 6-2 Thursday at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center.

The French Open champions and Australian Open runners-up Errani and Vinci will face a third-seeded Czech pairing of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in Sunday's final. Hlavackova and Hradecka topped a 16th-seeded duo of Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh and Spaniard Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in the other semifinal.

Hlavackova and Hradecka captured the French Open title last year and were the runners-up at Wimbledon in July.

Errani, who lost to Maria Sharapova in the French Open finale in June, beat her good friend Vinci in a women's singles quarterfinal in Flushing on Wednesday.

Sunday's winners will split $420,000.

The Sports Network