MOSCOW(AP) Francesca Schiavone of Italy has won the Kremlin Cup for her second career title, beating Olga Govortsova of Belarus 6-3, 6-0.
Schiavone improved to 2-10 in WTA Tour finals. She also won the 2007 Gastein Ladies.
The eighth-seeded Italian, the 2005 Kremlin Cup runner-up, broke in the eighth game of the first set on Sunday after Govortsova had saved five break points in the sixth game.
The 24th-ranked Schiavone was playing in her second final in as many weeks, having lost to Samantha Stosur of Australia at Osaka, Japan.
The 67th-ranked Govortsova was playing in her second career final.
In the men's final later Sunday, Mikhail Youzhny of Russia was scheduled to face Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia.