STRASBOURG (France), May 24: Heavy rain on Saturday brought a halt to the final of the women’s Strasbourg International here with Slovenian fifth seed Katarina Srebotnik leading Spanish holder and sixth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4, 1-1, 40-30.

On Friday, Srebotnik lost a tiebreak 10-8 but went on to beat Chan Yung-Jan of Taiwan 6-1, 6-7, 6-4 and reach the final.

In the other semi-final, Medina beat Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland 6-3, 6-3.

Results (prefix number denotes seeding):

Semi-finals: 6-Anabel Medina (Spain) bt Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) 6-3, 6-3; 5-Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) bt Chan Yung-Jan (Taiwan) 6-1, 6-7(8), 6-4.

Thursday’s results:

Quarter-finals: 6-Anabel Medina (Spain) bt 4-Flavia Pennetta (Italy) – walkover; Timea Bacsinszky (Switzerland) bt 2-Alona Bondarenko (Ukraine) 7-6 (8-6), 6-2; 5-Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) bt Peng Shuai (China) 6-4, 7-5; Chan Yung-jan (Taiwan) bt 7-Ai Sugiyama (Japan) 6-4, 6-2.—Agencies