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Ian Chadband

Joint wins all-Aussie battle to reach first WTA final

Maya Joint has beaten fellow Australian Ajla Tomljanovic to reach her first WTA final aged just 19. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

Teenager Maya Joint's remarkable tennis rise has scaled a new peak with the brilliant young Australian prospect reaching her first WTA final in Morocco, just days before making her French Open debut.

In what was seen as a claycourt dress rehearsal after the Aussie pair had also been drawn to meet each other in the first round at Roland Garros, 19-year-old Joint came out on top in her last-four encounter with Ajla Tomljanovic at the Morocco Open in Rabat on Friday.

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