Romania's Sorana Cirstea recovered from going a set down against eighth seed Magda Linette of Poland to win the first semi-final of the Strasbourg Open in France on Friday. Cirstea reached the final on the back of a 3-6, 6-4, 6-2 scoreline. The other semi-final sees Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic take on German qualifier Jule Niemeier