There was actually one very big turning point in the match - leading 6-2, 4-2, Bouchard looked headed for a routine straight set victory, but Pliskova reeled off four games in a row to snatch the second set right from under her. But the No.1-seeded Bouchard regrouped very well in the third, never falling behind to close out the unseeded Czech in three sets in an hour and 53 minutes, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Bouchard was just a little bit better in just about every department. Apart from ace-to-double fault ratio (Pliskova was 7-1, Bouchard was 3-4) the Canadian came out on top in every category, from first serve points won (67% compared to 63%) all the way to second serve return points won (67% to 59%). An even bigger stat is that Bouchard is just the second Canadian in the last 26 years to win a WTA title - since 1988, only she and Aleksandra Wozniak have done it (Wozniak won Stanford in 2008).
Other Canadians to win WTA titles: Patricia Hy-Boulais (1986 Taipei), Bassett-Seguso (1983 Hershey and 1987 Strasbourg), Kelesi (1986 Tokyo and 1988 Taranto) and Jill Hetherington (1988 Wellington).
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