TOKYO: Caroline Wozniacki continued to enjoy her best season by beating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia to win the women’s singles title at the Japan Open tennis tournament on Sunday.

The 18-year-old Danish top seed, the semifinalist last year here, completed a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 victory over the fifth seed in just two hours.

“I feel amazing. I just won another tournament. It’s been an incredible year. This is my first title here in Japan and I’m very happy,” said a jubilant Wozniacki, ranked 16th against Kanepi’s 33rd.

“I think I improved a lot last year and I think I improved pretty much everything,” she added. Wozniacki said she was now battling for every point and had got into the winning mood. Kanepi, 23, struggled with her first serves and found herself 0-4 down in the first set.

It was too late to come back but she then started to serve better and went a service break up in the seventh game to take the second set and tie the contest at one-all. But her serve once again betrayed her in the third. Kanepi, who hit six aces and eight double faults in the match, managed two and two in the second game of the decider to go down 0-2 and was unable to come back.

Wozniacki, much more consistent than error-prone Kanepi, chalked up a 5-0 lead and on her first match point two games later watched her opponent hit a forehand into the net.

Wozniacki, who won her first two WTA tournaments at Stockholm and New Haven in August, picked up a third title and earned the winner’s check of 8,250 dollars.

Kanepi, playing only her second final on the tour since Hasselt in 2006, had to be satisfied with the 4,350-dollar runner-up prize.