Defending champion Karolina Pliskova returned to the Internazionali BNL d’Italia final with a solid 6-2 6-4 victory over fellow Czech Marketa Vondrousova.
After comfortably winning the first set, Pliskova was tested in the second, as she dropped serve right in the beginning and later saw a 4-2 lead go away as Vondrousova leveled to 4-4. The second-seeded Pliskova then saved a break point to lead 5-4 and broke Vondrousova’s serve to seal the win in one hour and 22 minutes.
Looking at the stats, Pliskova was better in all departments except for the winners-to-unforced-errors differential, but she made up for that with much better break point conversion.