Johanna Larsson may have fallen in Luxembourg singles action this past week in the quarterfinal round, but not before posting three-set victories over Eugenie Bouchard and Beatriz Haddad Maia.

One heat-induced lapse in judgement involved Alize Cornet. After splitting sets with Johanna Larsson, she took her 10-minute break but returned to the court with her shirt on inside-out.

In other first-round matches, Polona Hercog of Slovenia eased past Germany’s Tatjana Malek 6-4, 6-2 and Johanna Larsson of Sweden beat Czech wild-card Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-4. Seeded players ...

PORTOROZ, Slovenia (AP)—Johanna Larsson of Sweden reached her first WTA tour semifinal by beating third-seeded Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia 6-3, 6-2 on Friday at the Slovenia Open.

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