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Petkovic, Cepelova advance to Family Circle finals (Yahoo Sports)
 No. 14 seed Andrea Petkovic of Germany and Jana Cepelova of Slovakia advance to the finals Saturday, both rallying late in their matches to set up an unlikely championship Sunday. Petkovic rallied in the final two sets to defeat sixth-seeded Eugenie Bouchard 1-6, 6-3, 7-5, while Cepelova came back from 4-1 down in a third-set tiebreaker to oust 17-year-old Swiss qualifier Belinda Bencic 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (7). Petkovic was trailing 4-2 in that one before digging in a final time and breaking Bouchard's serve twice down the stretch to advance to her first championship since Washington, D.C., last August where she fell to Magdalena Rybarikova in straight sets. ''I was just so relieved and I was proud that I came back from all these injuries, and I never thought that I would play finals in the big tournaments again,'' said Petkovic, who hadn't gotten past the quarterfinals in her six previous tournaments this season. More...
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