Top-seeded Stan Wawrinka will play Marin Cilic for the Geneva Open title after both advanced from the semifinals Friday. French Open champion Wawrinka beat Lukas Rosol of the Czech Republic 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to reach his first final in his native Switzerland for 11 years. Third-seeded Cilic eased past David Ferrer 7-5, 7-5 to get his first clay-court victory over the second-seeded Spaniard at the third attempt. Only one of Cilic's 14 career singles titles was on clay, four years ago at Umag in his native Croatia. The final Saturday is Wawrinka's last match before beginning the defense of his Grand Slam crown at Roland Garros next week. Wawrinka is 9-0 in finals over the past three seasons. Thiem-Zverev final Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria eased past Adrian Mannarino of France 6-1, 6-3 to reach the Nice Open final Friday. Thiem, ranked 15th, is chasing his third title of the year and sixth of his career. He will play German teen Alexander Zverev, who beat fifth-seeded Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-4, 4-6, 6-2 to reach his first career final. Although he dropped his serve once, Thiem was otherwise untroubled, winning 89 percent of his points on first serve and breaking the Frenchman's serve five times. The eighth-seeded Zverev, who saved two match points against No. 2 Gilles Simon in the quarterfinals, had seven aces against Sousa but also double-faulted eight times. Duque-Marino wins 2 matches Mariana Duque-Marino had to play two matches and won them both Friday to reach the Nuremberg final. Duque-Marino will seek her second career title against Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens in Saturday's final. The Colombian played three sets for nearly three hours in the morning in outlasting Varvara Lepchenko of the United States 5-7, 7-6 (4), 7-2 in a quarterfinal that was postponed on Thursday because of rain. Duque-Marino needed only just over an hour to dispatch third-seeded Annika Beck of Germany 7-5, 6-1 in the afternoon. Beck was the last seed in the tournament. In the second semifinal, Bertens came from behind to beat Julia Goerges of Germany 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4). — Agencies
