WTA (Sun. 10/21): Kremlin Cup Final

Written by: Staff on 21st October 2012

WTA (Sun. 10/21): Kremlin Cup Final

epa03441064 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark celebrates after beating Samantha Stosur of Australia in their final match at the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow, Russia, 21 October 2012. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY |

KREMLIN CUP

Moscow, Russia

October 15-21, 2012

$740,000/Premier

Hard/Indoors

Results – Sunday, October 21, 2012

Singles – Final

(3/WC) Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) d. (1) Samantha Stosur (AUS) 62 46 75

Doubles – Final

(1) Makarova/Vesnina (RUS/RUS) d. (2) Kirilenko/Petrova (RUS/RUS) 63 16 108 (Match TB)

Final Facts

– Wozniacki wins her 20th WTA title and second this year, having also won in Seoul a month ago. Moscow is her 13th Premier-level title.

– Wozniacki becomes the fourth active player with at least 20 WTA titles, the others being Serena Williams with 45, Venus Williams with 44 and Maria Sharapova with 27.

– Wozniacki improves to 20-11 in WTA finals.

– Her defeat of Stosur is the third straight match in which Wozniacki lost the second set and went on to win.

– Stosur falls to 3-12 in WTA finals, including 0-2 this year.

– Stosur falls to 3-3 all-time against Wozniacki.

– Stosur secured the first alternate spot at the TEB BNP Paribas WTA Championships – Istanbul 2012 earlier in the week.

– Makarova and Vesnina win their second WTA doubles title as a duo, their first coming at their last event in Beijing.

– Moscow is Makarova’s third WTA doubles title and Vesnina’s eighth.

– Their semifinal win on Saturday over Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears gave Kirilenko and Petrova the last doubles berth in Istanbul.

Final Quotes

Caroline Wozniacki: “I think both of us played very good tennis out there. Sam has been playing well and I knew it wasn’t going to be easy, and it could have gone either way at the end, but I think at the right times I played the right shots. There were a lot of key moments, but they just went my way.”

Samantha Stosur: “Even though I lost, making a final is still a good achievement. It’s disappointing not to walk away with a title this year, having done so the last couple of years, but I made it to two finals and had a lot of other good opportunities, so it’s still a good year, and I’ll use it to motivate myself in 2013.”

Ekaterina Makarova: “It’s really amazing because it’s at home and a long time ago when I was a child, I really wanted to win this tournament, so to win the doubles here is a great feeling.”

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