The battle for the title in Tokyo is going to be between seed no. 5 Angelique Kerber and seed o.7 Petra Kvitova.
Kerber
Angelique had a very clean tournament not to drop a single set beating top players such as Ana Ivanovic, Agnieszka Radwanska and Caroline Wozniacki.
The match with Caroline lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes. Angelique was in firm control of the first set to win a couple of early breaks and get a 5-1 lead to secure the set 6-4.
In the second set after a couple of breaks exchange in the 6th and 7th game, the couple went to the breaker. Angelique got an early 3-0 lead to win the tiebreak at 5. Match Stats
Kvitova
Petra had also a smooth tournament till the semifinal against a rejuvenated Venus Williams. Petra had to recover from 1 set down to win the match in 2 hours and 24 minutes. Match Stats
Kerber vs. Kvitova
Angelique and Petra played each other 3 times. Head to head is 2-1 for Kerber that has won the last two matches and she might be the favourite for the title.
