The meeting lasted 1 hour and 19 minutes, ended with a score of 6: 3, 6: 3 in favor of the 41st racket of the world.

Recall that Kerber is the winner of the Australian Open (2016), US Open (2016) and Wimbledon (2018).

In the final, Pavlyuchenkova will play with local tennis player Naomi Osaka, who turned out to be stronger than Alice Mertens from Belgium.

Earlier, Ekaterina Alexandrova lost to Magda Lynette in the semifinals of the WTA tournament in Seoul.