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Published on July 21, 2007

The teenager was up a set and 4-2 in the second when the jitters got the better of her. She ended up dropping the set 4-6 and falling 1-3 behind in the decider, before gritting her teeth to reel off five straight games, winning 6-4 4-6 6-3.

"I was up 4-2 and then she made several good returns and attacked my serves. But even when I was 1-3 down, I didn't think that I was going to lose. I knew I could turn the situation around,'' said the 17-year-old from Nakhon Ratchasima, who had a much easier time beating the same opponent 6-4 6-0 in Indonesia back in May.

"She served well at the end of the second set. After I was a break down in the third, I tried to keep the ball in play and she started missing,'' added Nungnadda, who is hoping to land her first home title after having three ITF trophies under her belt.

Nungnadda will battle it out for the title with Taiwan's fourth-seeded Yi Chen today. Yi, ranked 400 in the world, halted the run of Uzbek Vlada Ekshibarova, winning 6-3 7-5 in the other semi-final.