Sydney, Australia (SportsNetwork. Brook Lopez Jersey .com) - Czech stars Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova will be the combatants in Fridays final at the Sydney International tennis event, a final hardcourt Australian Open tune-up. Thursdays semifinals saw the second-seeded Wimbledon champion Kvitova defeat qualifier and defending Sydney titlist Tsvetana Pironkova of Bulgaria 7-5, 6-1 and Pliskova oust fifth-seeded 2014 Sydney runner-up Angelique Kerber of Germany 6-3, 6-2. Pironkova upset Kerber in last years final. The 24-year-old Kvitova is 14-5 in her career finals, including Wimbledon titles last year and in 2011. She was 3-1 in her 2014 title tilts. The rising Pliskova is 3-3 in her WTA finals, including 2-3 last year. Kvitova is 1-0 lifetime against Pliskova, with the win coming on a hardcourt in Wuhan, China, last season. Fridays winner will take home $124,000. George Hill Jersey . So far, so good: Gonzalez has allowed one run through 12 innings this season. His second start came Tuesday night, when he gave up only three singles over six innings to lead the Nationals to a 5-0 victory over the Miami Marlins. Donte DiVincenzo Bucks Jersey . 5 Trade Deadline isnt that far away and teams will be making decisions on whether to buy, sell and decide which players can make the biggest difference and hold the greatest value. http://www.nbabucksproshop.com/Authentic-Oscar-Robertson-Bucks-Jersey/ . The All-Pro left tackle agreed to a five-year contract with the Eagles on Wednesday. Peters was signed for 2014, and his new deal adds four years through 2018.PATTAYA, Thailand -- Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic reached her first WTA semifinal in almost a year after she came back from two match points down to beat third-seeded Sorana Cirstea 1-6, 7-6 (3), 6-0 in the Pattaya Open on Friday. Pliskova came up with good serves when she needed them at 4-5, 15-40 in the second set to hold that game, and went on to dominate the tiebreak and third set thanks also to a barrage of unforced errors from Cirstea. "I didnt expect to win," Pliskova said. "She was playing amazing in the first set and I didnt have any chance to play my game. She was playing fast and she was killing all my second serves. In the second set I was just trying to hold my serves and hoped that in the tiebreak anything could happen." Pliskovas llast appearance in a semifinal was in Kuala Lumpur last February, when she also went on to claim her first and only singles title. Glenn Robinson Bucks Jersey. She faces Julia Georges of Germany, who beat fifth-seeded Elena Vesina of Russia 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. "Im happy that Ive won hard matches here," Pliskova said. "I played my last semifinal in Kuala Lumpur which is almost a year. So Im happy that Im not going to lose (ranking) points." In another quarterfinal, Andrea Hlavackova of the Czech Republic upset eighth-seeded Peng Shuai of China 6-2, 7-5. Hlavackova, a doubles specialist who has two Grand Slam doubles titles, will have to go through fourth-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia or Japanese veteran Kimiko Date-Krumm to reach her second singles final. ' ' '