French Open women’s semi-final match to reach her first Grand Slam final on Thursday.
Barbora saved a match point at 5-3 in the third set and went on to win the titanic battle in three hours and 18 minutes.
Barbora will play first-time Grand Slam finalist No.31 seed Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, who defeated world No.85 Tamara Zidansek of Slovenia 7-5, 6-3 in one hour and 34 minutes in an earlier semi-final encounter.
On an 11-match winning streak, Barbora needed five match points over two games. She duly subdued the challenge from the Greek player and improved to 3-0 in their head-to-head rivalry.
Earlier, Anastasia, 29, became the first woman to play more than 50 major tournaments before reaching a final, having made her Grand Slam debut as a 15-year-old wildcard entrant at Wimbledon in 2007.
Italian Roberta Vinci, who was the 2015 US Open runner-up in her 44th main draw, held the previous record.
This tournament is the 52nd time that Anastasia has made the main draw of a Grand Slam event.
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