Eugenie Bouchard wants 'revenge' for her emphatic Wimbledon final defeat when she takes on Petra Kvitova for the inaugural Wuhan Open title on Saturday.
Kvitova thrashed Bouchard 6-3 6-0 in 55 minutes to win her second Wimbledon trophy in July. The 15 games played were the fewest in a women's Wimbledon final since Steffi Graf defeated Monica Seles 6-2 6-1 in 1992.
'I hope tomorrow I can kind of do my thing more on the court and not get, I don't know, maybe pushed around so much,' Bouchard said. 'I need my revenge. I'm going to try really hard to get that.'
On Friday, Kvitova saved five of six break points to beat Elina Svitolina 6-3 7-5 while Bouchard overpowered Caroline Wozniacki with heavy groundstrokes in a 6-2 6-3 victory.
Kvitova will be aiming for her third title of the year - and more importantly, a spot in the season-ending WTA Championships in Singapore. Bouchard, 20, will be going for her second career title.
At the All England Club this summer, Bouchard was broken in her last five service games and six times overall, winning just 24 points on her own serve while Kvitova won 23 points on her first serve.
Over the entire match, Bouchard took 37 points compared to Kvitova's 61, but the Canadian said she learned a lot from her first grand slam final.
'I didn't impose myself enough in the Wimbledon final, and she was the one kind of controlling the points all the time,' Bouchard said. 'She played really, really well, so there wasn't too much I could do.'
Kvitova, though, says it wasn't as one-sided as it looked - and she expects just as tough a match in Wuhan.
'I don't think that she was weak in Wimbledon,' Kvitova said. 'She's trying to take balls very early and she's returning very well, so that's something that she does great.'
Wozniacki, who was hampered by pain in her upper right hamstring, fell just short of reaching her third straight final, following her surprising run at the US Open and her loss last week to Ana Ivanovic in the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo. Both she and Bouchard also still have a chance to qualify for Singapore.
'I've had a really good run,' Wozniacki said. 'My game is feeling great.'
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