BUDAPEST, Hungary - The home favorite takes on the Tour veteran in the final of the GDF SUEZ Grand Prix on Sunday, after Agnes Szavay and Patty Schnyder won their respective semifinals at the $220,000 International series event.

Top seed and wildcard Schnyder actually had to do double duty on Saturday, after her quarterfinal against No.5 seed Alisa Kleybanova was abandoned to due rain on Friday evening. When play resumed this afternoon the 30-year-old held a 4-3 lead on serve, but it was world No.35 Kleybanova who drew first blood, breaking for 6-5 and successfully serving for the set.

There was little to separate the players until 5-5 in the second set, but this time it was Schnyder who stole the momentum to level at a set all. The Swiss star was also quick to steal the advantage in decider, breaking for 3-1 and allowing the Russian teenager just one more game as she booked a semifinal showdown against Romania's Edina Gallovits, 57 75 62.

While Schnyder rested - she later held of a late surge by Gallovits to win 62 64 - fourth-seeded Szavay powered past No.6 seed Alona Bondarenko of Ukraine, 61 62. The Hungarian world No.37 led 5-0 before her 36th ranked opponent got on the scoreboard, and it was much the same story in the second set. Still, the local heroine insisted the win hadn't been easy.

"This match was extremely difficult to handle mentally, I was very tense and could not relax," 21-year-old Szavay said after the game, referring to a semi-final defeat on home ground two years ago. "But I believe I played the way she doesn't like. That is why she made a lot of errors and could not play tennis the way she likes, a game of low shots."

Schnyder, whose best recent result has been a semifinal showing at Madrid, will be playing the 25th Tour final of her career, and gunning for a 12th title.

"It wasn't my best game but the important thing is that I qualified for the final," she said of her win over Gallovits.

For her part, two-time titlist Szavay is contesting her fifth final, and first since the Paris [Indoors] early in 2008.

The doubles final sees top-seeded Kleybanova and Monica Niculescu take on the Bondarenko sisters, who are the No.2 seeds.