Petra Kvitova recovered from a set down against Hsieh Su-wei to end the unseeded Taiwanese’s run at the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 3-6 6-2 6-4 victory that saw the Czech reach her third final of the year.

Australian Open runner-up Kvitova, who made an astute tactical adjustment midway through the match that changed the course of the contest, will face either defending champion Elina Svitolina or unseeded Swiss Belinda Bencic in Saturday’s final.

Hsieh, who knocked out Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber and fourth-seeded Karolina Pliskova during her remarkable run to the semi-finals, kept second-seeded Kvitova guessing with her unorthodox shot selection and soon had the world No.4 on the back foot.

Two-times Wimbledon champion Kvitova found herself outwitted by Hsieh in a tense first set and her frustration showed as she made 12 unforced errors to Hsieh’s one in the opener.

But Kvitova, champion in Dubai in 2013, switched things up in the second set and began reeling off winners at will as she raced into a 4-1 lead before claiming the set to force a decider.

The pair began the third set with an exchange of service breaks, but Kvitova broke again and then held her serve to get in front before wrapping up the win.