Russia's Vera Dushevina needed just 41 minutes to rout Lucie Hradecka and win the Istanbul Cup in Turkey Sunday -- her first championship on the WTA Tour. Dushevina, seeded fifth, breezed to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over the eighth-seeded Czech. Hradecka has not yet won an event on the tour. Dushevina had

Fifth-seeded Vera Dushevina and eighth-seeded Lucie Hradecka were Saturday's semifinal winners at the Istanbul Cup tennis tournament. Both women will have a chance to earn their first career title when they play Sunday. Dushevina downed Switzerland's Timea Bacsinszky 6-2, 6-4.

Top seed Alize Cornet of France beat Mariana Duque Marino of Colombia 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-4 Tuesday in opening play at the Gastein Ladies tennis event in Austria. Cornet advanced to play Patricia Mayr of Austria, who defeated Spain's Lourdes Dominguez Lino 6-3, 6-3 in opening-round play.

Aravane Rezai of France posted a straight-set victory over Czech Lucie Hradecka Saturday to win the Strasbourg International women's tennis event. Rezai had a 7-6 (7-2), 6-1 victory for her first career WTA singles crown.

Czech Lucie Hradecka and France's Aravane Rezai will clash for the championship in the Strasbourg International tennis event, a tuneup for the French Open. Both players are unseeded at Strasbourg and seeking a first title on the WTA Tour. In Friday's semifinals, Hradecka was cruising against Ayume Morita 6-0, 1-0 when the Japanese player pulled out of the match with a thigh injury, and Rezai dominated Ukrainian qualifier Viktoriya Kutuzova 6-2, 6-2. The French player is ranked No.