Stanford (California), July 27: Second seed Kim Clijsters and number three Jennifer Capriati dispatched unseeded opponents yesterday to set up a showdown in the final of the 565,000-dollar WTA tour hardcourt tennis tournament here.
Clijsters reached her WTA tour-best ninth final of the season with a 6-3, 6-2 rout of Francesca Schiavone in just over an hour. Schiavone had a chance to square the match, grabbing a 30-0 lead in the eighth game of the opening set. But Clijsters took the next four points before serving out the set. Capriati, seeking her first title since the 2002 Australian Open, reached just her second final of the year with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Venezuelan qualifier Maria Vento-Kabchi.
The US veteran said she wouldn't be focusing on the fact that it's her first final since she lost to Serena Williams in Miami in March.

"I'm not going to think that this is a final and my big chance and put pressure on myself," she said. "Not that 'if I can't win this I can't win anything else the rest of my career.'"

Instead she'll concentrate on erasing some of the errors that made her life harder on Saturday.

Capriati had 30 unforced errors and six double faults against Vento-Kabchi.

Capriati has won three of her four matches against Clijsters, all but one of those clashes going three sets.
Bureau Report.