Caroline Wozniacki has ended a more than a year long title drought by taking the Korea Open, which has upgraded from a $220,000 event to $500,000. In the 62-minute final, the top seed lost just one game, while her third-seeded opponent, Kaia Kanepi, held serve just once. Score: 6-1 6-0.

Before the title match, Wozniacki defeated Arantxa Rus 6-1 6-2 in the first round, Caroline Garcia 6-2 6-3 in the second, seventh seed Klara Zakopalova 6-1 7-6(6) in the quarterfinals and eighth seed Ekaterina Makarova 6-1 5-7 6-4 in the semis.

The Seoul title is Wozniacki's 19th, and she's actually lagging behind only multiple Grand Slam champions Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Maria Sharapova in the number of WTA titles among active players.

As for Kanepi, her quick loss in the final should not put a shadow over her amazing week. The Korea Open was her first tournament since Roland Garros quarterfinals (in the third round she upset Wozniacki!) and the Achilles injury problems. (source: WTA Tour, photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Caroline Wozniacki is showing improved form this week as top seed in Seoul, reaching the semifinals with three straight-set wins, the last one, 6-2 6-3, coming in the quarters against seventh seed Klara Zakopalova, who stopped her five-match losing streak by beating Garbine Muguruza in the first round and then built on it by taking out Magdalena Rybarikova.

This is Wozniacki's first time in three appearances at the Korea Open that she's past the first round. Truth be told, those two appearances were five and six years ago, when the Dane was nowhere near her current top status. Read more »

Top seed Caroline Wozniacki breezed past qualifier Caroline Garcia 6-2 6-3 to reach the quarterfinals of the KDB Korea Open in Seoul. Her previous victory at the tournament was also confident, 6-1 6-2 against Arantxa Rus, which is a nice recovery for the Dane after her first-round loss at the US Open. Next for Wozniacki is seventh seed Klara Zakopalova, who beat Magdalena Rybarikova 6-1 7-6(6).

Maria Kirilenko, the 2008 Seoul champion and second seed this year, retired yesterday at 1-all in the first set against Korean wildcard Lee So-Ra due to a left back injury. Fourth seed Nadia Petrova also fell victim to a back injury, withdrawing today before her second-round encounter with the newlywed Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez. The Spaniard is defending her Seoul title this week, but last time she entered the tournament ranked 36th, while now she’s No.93 – at the end of 2011 she had a knee surgery and this season she joined the circuit in May due to right thigh injuries. (via WTA Tour, photo: sr_cranks)

Marion Bartoli, top seed at the GRC Bank Guangzhou International Women's Open and quarterfinalist at the recent US Open, retired in the first round while trailing Taiwan’s Chang Kai-Chen 4-3. The reason for the withdrawal from the $220,000 Chinese event was gastrointestinal illness.

At the other tournament going on this week, the $500,000 KDB Korea Open, No.1 seed Caroline Wozniacki cruised past Arantxa Rus 6-1 6-2. The Dane, who is playing her first tournament as a non-Top 10 player in three and a half years, has been practicing hard and is trying to focus on one match at a time.

Third seed Kaia Kanepi is also through, with a 6-1 6-0 victory over Han Sung-Hee. Kanepi is playing her first event since the French Open, having recovered from a bilateral Achilles injury. The only seed that lost in Seoul was No.5 Julia Goerges, who fell to Silvia Soler-Espinosa 1-6 7-6(5) 6-2. (photo: © Neal Trousdale)

Spain’s world No.36 Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat Galina Voskoboeva in the final of the Hansol Korea Open in Seoul and won her first career title on a surface other than clay.

Both the players won all their matches in straight sets en route to the final, in which the sixth-seeded Martinez Sanchez decisively won two tiebreaks to defeat the first-time Kazakh WTA finalist 7-6(0) 7-6(2). In the second set the 29-year-old Martinez Sanchez saved three set points before the tiebreak.

Players that Martinez Sanchez defeated in Seoul: Irina Falconi in the first round, Kristyna Pliskova in the second, third seed Julia Goerges in the quarters, Klara Zakopalova in the semis, and finally unseeded world No.82 Voskoboeva, who had reached her first WTA final four at Baku in July.

The previous four WTA titles Martinez Sanchez won: Bogota and Bastad in 2009, Rome in 2010 and Bad Gastein this year in July. (photo via Hansol Korea Open)