<p>Chasing her first title in Rome, top-seeded Simona Halep reached her third Italian Open final after beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 Sunday to improve her record in tennis' restart to 9-0.</p>.<p>Muguruza struggled with her serve and double-faulted on the final two points of the 2 hour, 16-minute match.</p>.<p>Halep, who lost to Elina Svitolina in the 2017 and 2018 finals, will face either Karolína Plíšková or Markéta Vondroušová in Monday's championship match.</p>.<p>The second-ranked Halep is 13-0 overall stretching back to February when she won a title in Dubai.</p>.<p>After the tour's five-month break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Romanian returned by raising another trophy in Prague last month. She then skipped the U.S. Open due to travel and health concerns.</p>.<p>In the men's semifinals later, it's top-ranked Novak Djokovic against Casper Ruud of Norway and eighth-seeded Diego Schwartzman against 12th-seeded Denis Shapovalov.</p>.<p>Schwartzman beat nine-time Rome champion, Rafael Nadal, late Friday.</p>.<p>After fans had not been allowed in at the Foro Italico all week, 1,000 spectators were being admitted in for the semifinals and finals.</p>
<p>Chasing her first title in Rome, top-seeded Simona Halep reached her third Italian Open final after beating Garbiñe Muguruza 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 Sunday to improve her record in tennis' restart to 9-0.</p>.<p>Muguruza struggled with her serve and double-faulted on the final two points of the 2 hour, 16-minute match.</p>.<p>Halep, who lost to Elina Svitolina in the 2017 and 2018 finals, will face either Karolína Plíšková or Markéta Vondroušová in Monday's championship match.</p>.<p>The second-ranked Halep is 13-0 overall stretching back to February when she won a title in Dubai.</p>.<p>After the tour's five-month break due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Romanian returned by raising another trophy in Prague last month. She then skipped the U.S. Open due to travel and health concerns.</p>.<p>In the men's semifinals later, it's top-ranked Novak Djokovic against Casper Ruud of Norway and eighth-seeded Diego Schwartzman against 12th-seeded Denis Shapovalov.</p>.<p>Schwartzman beat nine-time Rome champion, Rafael Nadal, late Friday.</p>.<p>After fans had not been allowed in at the Foro Italico all week, 1,000 spectators were being admitted in for the semifinals and finals.</p>