When the Los Angeles event started, the focus was squarely on world No. 1 Dinara Safina and the other four top 10 players as well as former No. 1s Maria Sharapova and Ana Ivanovic.

But the last two standing are Pilot Pen commits Flavia Pennetta (who took out No. 10 Nadia Petrova, No. 7 Vera Zvonareva and Sharapova) and Samantha Stosur (who eliminated Ivanovic). They will meet in today's final and when the rankings come out tomorrow, Pennetta will jump two spots to No. 12 and Stosur will move up from No. 19 to No. 17 regardless of today's result.

In other news which could ultimate have an impact on the Pilot Pen, former world No. 1 Kim Clijsters did not get a favorable draw in her return to the WTA tour as she will play Pilot Pen commit Marion Bartoli in the first round in Cincinnati. If Clijsters has early exits from either Cincinnati or Toronto, it wouldn't be a shock to see her request a wild card. With big name wild card requests on the women's side appearing to be few and far between, the tournament would welcome Clijsters to the field.