Amanda now faces Finnish top seed Piia Suomalainen in Saturday's semis. The Fin is ranked 426 but unlike Amanda, her route to the last 4 has been far from straightforward, she had to come back from dropping the opening set in both of her first two matches.

Amanda is now guaranteed to move up nearly 200 places to 950

It's been a massive few weeks for her, made a 10K quarters at the start of August too....top 700 is possible by the end of the yr if she continues like this