On Sunday at Linz, Austria, in the final of the Generali Ladies, the 2012 Copenhagen and Paris indoor champion, 25 year old top seeded late entry wild card #9 (career high: #5) Angelique Kerber from Kiel, Germany, defeated the 2010 and 2008 tourney champ (and 2008 French Open champion), 25 year old 3rd seeded #14 (and former #1) Ana Ivanovic of Serbia (residence: Basel, SUI), 6-4, 7-6(6) (Angelique is shown holding the transparentware after the match).     Angelique's prize is $40,000; Ana's prize is $20,000.     Angelique had triple match point at 6-4, 5-4, 40-0, but Ana was able to reach the tiebreaker.     Angelique said: "At the end I was just focusing point to point, and not thinking about the match points I already had. I was just trying to stay aggressive in the important moments and I think that was the biggest key to victory at the end... Ana also played a great tournament and a great final." WTA story     Ana said: "[Angelique] played better in the important moments. I feel like I had more chances but just didn't use them. I hit some errors when I really needed the point. But it was a great match, and though it's disappointing to lose in a final, I had lots of good matches this week and lots of good wins, and overall it was a very positive week for me."     Ana still leads Angelique 3-2 in career matches. Their previous meeting was just over two weeks ago on a Deco-Turf hardcourt in the 2nd round at Tokyo, when Angelique defeated Ana 6-4, 6-2.

    2013 Tokyo finalist Angelique is now 3-5 in WTA singles finals. All of her titles came indoors. She has a 44-21 singles match record for the year.

    2-time Linz champ Ana is now 11-5 in WTA singles finals. She has a 37-20 singles match record this season.

    Meanwhile, at Osaka, Japan, in the final of the HP Japan Open, the 2009 Osaka champion (and 2013 champ at Carlsbad), 29 year old 3rd seeded #20 (career high: #4) Samantha Stosur from Gold Coast, Australia, defeated the 2012 Wimbledon juniors champ, 19 year old 5th seeded #36 (career high: #36) Eugenie Bouchard from Westmount, Canada, 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 (Samantha is shown holding the hardware after the match).

    Samantha's prize is $40,000; Genie's prize is $20,000.

    Samantha said: "I thought Genie played very well. She had game point at 5-all in the second set and went for the drive volley and missed it wide, and then I played a very good service game to win the set. That was probably the turning point. It's obviously great to win, but it feels better knowing you really had to fight for it." WTA story

    Genie said: "I definitely tried my best today. I feel like I was playing the right way in the first set, but [Samantha] raised her level in the second set and started playing much better in the third. Sometimes when your opponent plays really well, you just have to congratulate them."

    Genie and Samantha had met only once before, in April of this year on Har-Tru green clay in the 3rd round at Charleston. Genie defeated Sam 6-1, 2-0 retired when Samantha was unable to continue due to a right calf injury.

    2011 US Open champion Samantha is now 5-12 in WTA singles finals, and has a 35-20 singles match record in 2013.

    Genie was playing in her first WTA singles final. She has a 39-23 singles match record for the season.

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