Bencic came into the final on all kinds of momentum, beating beat back-to-back Top 10 players in the last two rounds, Garbiñe Muguruza and Caroline Wozniacki.
One more win would have pushed her into the elite herself for the first time - the first teenager since Wozniacki five years ago to do that. The Swiss had also beaten Radwanska in their only previous meeting - the Eastbourne final this year.
But it was a completely different story in Tokyo, as the No.7-seeded Radwanska was in control against the No.8-seeded Bencic from start to finish, storming out to a 6-2, 4-0 lead and, after Bencic won the next two games, sprinting through the last two games to close the Swiss teenager out, 6-2, 6-2. Radwanska produced nearly twice as many winners as unforced errors on the day: 28 to 15. Bencic, meanwhile, was still solid with an almost even differential of winners to unforced errors, 21 to 23.
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