Australia's Samantha Stosur routed Vera Zvonareva of Russia 6-0 6-3 in the final of the WTA Family Circle Cup in Charleston.
Stosur continued her recent dominance over her opponent, making it five successive wins, as she picked up a second career title after winning in Japan last year.
The fourth seed was expected to be given a tough contest by Zvonareva, seeded seventh, but last year's French Open semi-finalist dominated from the start and is now poised to break into the world's top-10.
The Russian won just five points in a first set that lasted only 18 minutes and then broke to love in the second game of the next to surge ahead once again.
She then closed out another love-game for 3-0 with an ace up the middle before Zvonareva tried to disrupt Stosur's flow with a series of lobs.
It seemed to pay off, although she had to save two more break points before recording her first game after 35 minutes on court, and remarkably got back on serve at 3-4 after pressuring the Stosur delivery for the first time.
However, the comeback was short-lived as the Aussie seized two break points in the eighth game, crushing a forehand winner down the line to edge towards victory before crossing the finish line by serving out to love.
"To be able to do that through the whole two sets and not really let up was a great feeling," she said.
"It's always great to be able to play well in any match but to do it in a final where there's lots of pressure and you want to win that extra little bit more is really, really great.
"I have played five consistently good matches here so going into Roland Garros I am going to be ready to go and definitely trying to at least repeat last year."
