Ana Ivanovic, seeded No.3 this week, followed Wozniacki into the final with a 7-5, 6-3 win over the No.1 seed, Angelique Kerber, winning 10 of 13 games from 5-3 down in the first set to seal it.
"In the beginning it really took me some time to adjust to her game. It wasn't like my previous matches," Ivanovic said. "But once I adjusted and got more aggressive it started to go my way, and I'm really happy with the win today because she's always such a tough and challenging opponent."
Ivanovic's win over Kerber was her 51st WTA-level match win of the year, which ties her 2007 season for the most WTA-level match wins she's ever had in a single season. Can she get to 52 on Sunday? Both Wozniacki and Ivanovic are among the leading contenders for the five spots left in the WTA Finals, with Ivanovic currently No.8 on the Road To Singapore leaderboard and Wozniacki No.9. Ivanovic leads Wozniacki in their head-to-head, 4-2, and the Serb also won their only previous 2014 meeting, in the semifinals of Monterrey - that was their closest encounter to date, however.
Caroline Wozniacki, the No.2 seed, was the first player to reach the final, proving too solid for WTA Rising Star Garbiñe Muguruza, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2. Wozniacki was particularly tough on break points - she saved 19 of the 23 she faced in the match, including all nine that she faced in the first set. "She was playing really, really well and very aggressively, but I just kept fighting and staying in there, and I think at the end I had just a little bit more energy than she did," Wozniacki declared. Muguruza's aggression really showed up in the match numbers - the Spaniard hit an impressive 53 winners in the match. But her 50 unforced errors meant she ended with just a +3 differential - a lot lower than Wozniacki's +11 (the former World No.1 had 27 winners and 16 unforced errors). Wozniacki has now won 22 of 26 matches since the tour switched from grass to hardcourts.
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