26 Jan 2012

Azarenka through to first Grand Slam final

6:55 pm on 26 January 2012

The third Belarusian third seed Victoria Azarenka is through to her first grand slam tennis final after beating defending champion Kim Clijsters in the semi finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Azarenka won the match 6-4 1-6 6-3 and will play the winner of the second semi final between Czech second seed Petra Kvitova and Russian fourth seed Maria Sharapova.