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It was a second Wuhan title for the 14th-seeded Czech who
will move up to 12th place in the race to qualify for the
season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore after a campaign hampered
by illness.
The twice Wimbledon champion, who knocked out world number one
Angelique Kerber in the last 16, took a stranglehold on the
match from the start, losing one point in the first four games
as she blazed through the first set.
Cibulkova, who had won her previous two meetings against
Kvitova, played four three-setters in five matches en route to
the final and fatigue appeared to catch up with the 10th-seeded
Slovak as she managed just two winners in the entire contest.
"Wuhan, it's really one of my favorite cities," Kvitova said on
the WTA website (www.wtatennis.com).
"It was a great crowd all well, there were some incredible
matches for me and I'm really happy that I can stand here as a
champion again."
With the first set under her belt, Kvitova refused to take her
foot of the gas as she struck 28 winners to coast to victory in
a little more than an hour.
Despite her heavy defeat, Cibulkova will move up to a
career-high eighth in the world rankings when they are released
on Monday. Kvitova will climb to 11th.
(Reporting by Nivedita Shankar in Bengaluru; Editing by Ed
Osmond)
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