Courageous Mirjana Lucic-Baroni kept her fairytale Australian Open alive Wednesday Jan 25,2017 by stunning fifth seed Karolina Pliskova to make her first Grand Slam semi-final since Wimbledon in 1999.
The unseeded Croat, a former teenage prodigy whose career was derailed by personal trauma, used all her experience to upset the Czech 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 in a Rod Laver Arena epic, before collapsing on court in tears.
Her emotional win sets up a last-four clash with six-time champion Serena Williams for a place in the final to write another chapter in her inspiring story of perseverance
Ranked 79, Lucic-Baroni beat third seed Agnieszka Radwanska on her way to the quarter-finals as she rides a wave of popular support.
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