Maria Sakkari outlasted Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 after losing three match points in the second set of their rain-delayed semi-final on Friday night to reach the BNP Paribas Open final.

Sakkari will now play top-ranked Iga Swiatek in Sunday’s final. Swiatek routed Marta Kostyuk 6-2, 6-1 to improve to 19-2 this year, with her match wins leading the WTA Tour.

Swiatek has beaten Sakkari in three of their five meetings.

There were delays of 20 minutes and two hours during the semi-final between third-seeded Gauff and ninth-seeded Sakkari.

Swiatek won the 2022 tournament as part of a 37-match winning streak. She had advanced to the semi-finals when Caroline Wozniacki retired trailing 6-4, 1-0 in their quarter final.

Kostyuk hit 17 winners to 14 for Swiatek in the match. But, Swiatek was better in nearly every other facet and didn’t face a break point.

“It was the cleanest match I played here,” Swiatek said in an on-court interview. “I didn’t really have any moment today in the match where I didn’t feel confident.”

In the men’s doubles final, Nikola Mektic and Wesley Koolhof defeated fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (7-4).