Radwanska Takes Istanbul Cup

Agnieszka Radwanska seems to be peaking at the right time, as Paris approaches, she rolled through Dementieva en route to an Istanbul crown (potential darkhorse?!?)  here are results courtesy the WTA Tour Media Center:

Results - Saturday, May 24, 2008
Singles - Final
(2) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. (1) Elena Dementieva (RUS) 63 62

Doubles - Final
(3) Craybas/Govortsova (USA/BLR) d. Erakovic/Hercog (NZL/SLO) 61 62

Final Facts
- Radwanska wins her third career Sony Ericsson WTA Tour singles title; she is now 3-0 lifetime in Tour singles finals, having won her two previous finals, at Stockholm last summer and Pattaya City earlier this year; she is also 4-0 lifetime in overall Tour finals, having won her only previous Tour doubles final, at Istanbul last year (with sister Urszula).
- Radwanska notched her sixth career Top 10 win over the No.7-ranked Dementieva in the final.
- Radwanska will surpass $1 million in career prize money earnings with the $30,500 winner's cheque; she is the first Polish player in Tour history to pass that prize money milestone.
- Dementieva falls to 1-2 in Tour singles finals this year, having won at Dubai but finishing runner-up at Berlin (to Dinara Safina); she is now 9-13 lifetime in Tour singles finals.
- Dementieva falls to 7-1 lifetime in Istanbul, having gone 4-0 to win the title last year and 3-1 during her runner-up finish this year.
- Craybas and Govortsova win their first Tour doubles title together; it is Craybas' third career Tour doubles title while Govortsova picks up her first Tour title of any kind.

Quotes
Agnieszka Radwanska, 2008 Istanbul Cup singles champion:
"In the warm-up I couldn't put the ball in the court because I was so nervous, so the first few games were more like my warm-up. Then I started playing my game and being more aggressive. After winning the first set I won the first few games of the second set and things got better, and I did it."

Elena Dementieva, 2008 Istanbul Cup singles runner-up:
"Against Agnieszka you have got to be really concentrated and really focused, because she has a great defensive game and the ball will probably come back. She didn't miss much from the ground and she did really well at the net today too; she just played really well."