The world number 44, who has never previously reached a ranking final, will face Kyren Wilson in the two-day final starting on Sunday.
Top-ranked Iga Swiatek came through "the most intense and crazy final" she has ever contested to avenge her loss to Aryna Sabalenka in last year's Madrid final with a gruelling three-hour 11-minute victory in the Spanish capital on Saturday."I think it was the most intense and, like, crazy final I played," said Swiatek after the match.
Jak Jones sealed his status as one of the unlikeliest of World Snooker Championship finalists after completing an attritional 17-12 triumph over former champion Stuart Bingham at the Crucible.