Kimiko Date Krumm, who is on a pro tour comeback, won the Korea Open Sunday on the day before her 39th birthday, defeating Anabel Medina Garrigues. Date Krumm's winning score was 6-3, 6-3. The Japanese player, who won seven WTA titles in the 1990s and then retired, returned to the tour last year. Date Krumm, who turnd 39 Monday, became the second-oldest woman in the modern era to win a WTA singles event.

Aging Kimiko Date Krumm of Japan advanced Saturday to the final at the Korea Open tennis tournament at Seoul. Krumm, who turns 39 Monday, rallied to overcome former top-10 player and defending champion Maria Kirilenko of Russia 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in the day's first semifinal, continuing her comeback. Second-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain won the other semi 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 over Germany's Anna-Lena Groenefeld. It took some time to adjust to her game, Krumm said.

Top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues was knocked out in three sets Thursday in the second round of the Guangzhou Women's Open tennis tournament in China. Medina Garrigues, ranked 23rd in the world, took the first set but was then staggered by Anastasija Sevastova 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.

No. 1-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues faltered in the second set Tuesday but still won a first-round match at China's Guangzhou Women's Open tennis tournament. Medina Garrigues was sharp in most of the match against Kimiko Date Krumm, winning 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.

Third-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues rallied to defeat wild card Pemra Ozgen Thursday and earn a quarterfinal berth at the Istanbul Cup. Medina Garrigues recorded a 2-6, 6-2, 6-0 victory that set up a quarterfinal meeting with fifth-seeded Vera Dushevina. Andrea Petkovic, a surprise champion last week at Bad Gastein, kept her hot streak going with a 6-1, 6-0 blasting of Rossana de los Rios.