On Sunday at La Costa Resort, Carlsbad, California (north of San Diego), in the final of the Mercury Insurance Open, the 2011 champ at Moscow, 23 year old 2nd seeded #15 (career high: #13) Dominika Cibulkova from Bratislava, Slovakia, defeated the 2011 champion at Eastbourne and Osaka, 27 year old top seeded #10 (career high: #7) Marion Bartoli of France (residence: Geneva, SUI), 6-1, 7-5 (Domi is shown holding the glassware after the match).     Dominika's prize is $96,000; Marion's prize is $53,000.     Domi fell behind 1-4 in the 2nd set, but then won 6 of the next 7 games to finish the match. Dominika scored on 6 of the 12 break points that she reached against Marion while totaling 78 points in the match; Marion converted only 2 of the 9 break points she held against Domi, while scoring 55 points.     Domi said: "In the first set everything was going my way. My forehand was working today 100%, and also my serves and returns. So everything was just fine." WTA story     Marion said: "I played well to get the lead in the second set, but from there I started to feel a bit tired and wasn't moving so quickly anymore. And [Dominika] was playing extremely well."     Dominika now leads Marion 3-2 in career matches. Their previous meeting was in 2008 on an indoor hardcourt in the 1st round at Moscow, when Domi defeated Marion 6-1, 4-1 retired, Marion being unable to continue due to a left toe injury.     Dominika is now 2-4 in WTA singles finals; she won her first title at Moscow last year, and reached the finals at Barcelona this year, Linz in 2011, and at Amelia Island and Montreal in 2008. This season Domi has a 27-18 singles match record.

    2007 Wimbledon finalist Marion is now 7-11 in WTA singles finals. She also reached the Paris indoor final this year; last year she won at Osaka and Eastbourne, and reached the semis at Roland Garros. Marion has a 28-17 singles match record in 2012.

    On Sunday at Båstad, Sweden, in the final of the Sony Swedish Open, the 2011 Båstad champion, 21 year old #63 (career high: #35) Polona Hercog from Maribor, Slovenia, won again, defeating 27 year old #82 (career high: #59) Mathilde Johansson from Boulogne Billancourt, France (birthplace: Goteborg, Sweden), 0-6, 6-4, 7-5 (Polona is shown doing the bubbly thing during the awards ceremony).

    Polona's prize is $37,000; Mathilde's prize is $19,000.

    Polona said: "It was a lot of fighting today and a lot of ups and downs, and I'm very happy to win." WTA story

    Mathilde outscored Polona 26-8 in the 1st set, but was plagued by 16 double faults, 14 of them in the last two sets. Mathilde said: "In the first set I felt so good and played so well, but then I started to make some mistakes and [Polona] started playing much heavier and deeper. In the end it was better again, but I couldn't finish it... But I'll still have very good memories from this week."

    Mathilde and Polona had met only once before, in 2008 on red clay in the semifinals of an ITF tourney at Civitavecchia, Italy, when Polona defeated Mathilde 6-2, 6-4.

    Polona is now 2-1 in WTA singles finals; she won at Båstad last year and reached the final at Acapulco in 2010. Polona's 2012 singles match record is 15-19.

    Mathilde is now 0-2 in WTA singles finals; she reached her other final at Bogota in 2011. Mathilde has won 12 ITF singles titles, and 1 ITF doubles title. Her singles match record this season is 13-18.

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