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The teenager from Kent made errors at crucial moments, and it was one such backhand sent sailing wide that gave Wickmayer the first break and a 3-1 lead in the opening set. More bad news was to follow for Cavaday —- caught on the wrong foot, she could do nothing about the blazing inside out forehand that drew startled applause and a 5-1 advantage for the fourth seed. Wickmayer calmly served out the set, sealing it with a forehand winner .
The second set began with an exchange of breaks, and continued with games going the full distance. Nothing, however, could match the seventh—this particular game had eleven deuces, and after an era, Wickmayer blasted a forehand past Cavaday to pick up the first break of the set, giving her a 4-3 lead.
The rest was easy. After holding her serve, Cavaday succumbed to a break point once again as she served to stay in the match, and a careless backhand gave Wickmayer the match. In the final, she will take on unseeded Belarusian Ekaterina Dzehalevich, who fought past fifth seed Estonian Margit Ruutel 6-4, 0-6, 7-5. In the doubles final, second seeds Sunitha Rao and Aurelie Vedy of France lost in the super tie-break to give top seeds Chun-mei Ji and Sheng-nan Sun of China a 2-6, 6-2, 10-4 victory.
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