On Friday, Errani produced one of the performances of her career to upset Li Na, and she carried this form into the early stages of her semifinal, marrying her usual unerring consistency with some wonderfully deft touches to reel off four straight games.
Jankovic could find no answer to her opponent's brilliance, and cut a disconsolate figure towards the end of the opening set. Despite her frustrations, the Serb started the second with an increased intensity, and in the fifth game a nerveless overhead and a brilliant down-the-line backhand rewarded her with a break.
However, this setback only succeeded in strengthening the resolve of the Italian, whose break in the next game was greeted with a deafening roar of approval from a packed Centrale crowd. An even louder one was to follow as Errani survived a late wobble to close out a 6-3, 7-5 victory after just under two hours on court.
While Errani's clay court mastery was beguiling at times, as usual it was her consistency which underpinned her success. In the end, she committed 11 unforced errors, with four of these coming in her remarkably miserly second set display.
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