Top women's seeds Krejcíková, Ostapenko meet in Birmingham Classic final

Top-seeded Barbora Krejcíková and No. 2-seeded Jelena Ostapenko will contest the Birmingham Classic final on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. ET after taking contrasting paths.

Krejcíková hasn't dropped a set all week after dispatching Zhu Lin of China 6-3, 6-2 in the semifinals on Saturday in England.

Ostapenko played her fourth consecutive three-set match when she beat fourth-seeded Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-2, 6-4.

In a matchup of former French Open champions, Ostapenko leads the head-to-head against Krejcíková 4-2, including winning their most recent match last month in the Italian Open third round. But they have never met on grass.

By beating Zhu, the 12th-ranked Krejcíková will return to the top 10. She will be playing for her seventh singles title on Sunday and second of the year, after the Czech won Dubai in February.

Ostapenko took more than two hours to put down Potapova. Potapova needed six set points to clinch the first set. Ostapenko built a 4-0 lead in the second to even the set score.

The Latvian snatched the decisive break in the decider when she made four return winners to take Potapova's service game at 3-3.

"It's important to win these kind of matches when you're sometimes not playing your best, and you just fight for every point," the 17th-ranked Ostapenko said.

In her first final in almost a year, she will be aiming for her sixth singles title.

Donna Vekic will play two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova in the final of the Berlin Open after both won twice on Saturday.

The unseeded Vekic upset Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-6 (8) in their semifinal, shortly after beating Elina Avanesyan 6-2, 7-6 (0) in their rain-delayed quarterfinal.

Friday's play was washed out at the grass-court tournament in Berlin, forcing the