Another player have  staked her claim for a place in the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions  as the race heats up in the final weeks of the season.

In Quebec City, Hungarian fifth seed Melinda  Czink claimed her first career title in a battle between two left-handers. She  overcame fourth seed Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic in a tough three  sets, edging through 4-6 6-3 7-5 to win the Bell Challenge. Czink had played  one other final, at Canberra  in 2005, when she finished as runner-up to an emerging Ana Ivanovic.

"It feels  great," said Czink, who with her victory achieved a career-high ranking of  37 to become the new Hungarian number one. "I haven't really processed it  yet but I will. I went match by match this week. This was the toughest match  this week. I had to take some risks on her serve today - sometimes it worked,  sometimes it didn't. We really pushed each other, and I'm happy I could come  out the winner."

Kimiko Date Krumm made history as the race hotted up  for one of the places in the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.

Kimiko, who was once a semi-finalist at Wimbledon  and the US Open and reached as high as four in the world, won her first title  in 13 years when she defeated Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-3 6-3. In the meantime she  retired, and then last year she un-retired and won four small ITF events before  claiming her astonishing victory at the weekend in the final of the Hansol  Korea Open. What made her run to the title all the more remarkable was that  until last week she had failed to win a single Sony Ericsson WTA Tour main draw  match during her comeback, although she won a considerable number of matches in  the qualifying rounds.

But what put this triumph in the history books is  that Kimiko, at just one day short of her 39th birthday, became the second  oldest player ever to win a Tour title, beaten only by the legendary Billie  Jean King who won in Birmingham  at the age of 39 years and 7 months.

"My husband’s love and support was more  important than anything," said Date Krumm, explaining how she accomplished  her amazing achievement. "I was relaxed, mentally strong, and physically I  was also doing well. With all the tennis, I was of course tired, but it wasn’t  bad. I could move well enough to play my game. For the past year, I didn’t  really know if I could really compete well on the WTA Tour, but it looks okay  now. Here, I came back to win in matches. I could play my own game exactly as I  wanted to. I’ll have to be careful not to get any injuries, but I think I’ll be  able to keep playing for a couple of years."

Jenggala as Tournament  Supporter
Jenggala designs, manufactures and retails  stoneware and porcelain ceramics and table-top accessories. Established in  1976, in Bali, it is the foremost producer of quality handcrafted ceramic ware  in Indonesia.  Jenggala is inspired by the quality of the hands-on-craftsmanship and the  Balinese culture in the development of their designs.

The Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions will feature top Tour players and next generation champions competing in an innovative 12 woman round robin singles format, offering $600,000 in prize money. The top 10 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour players who have won at least one International tournament during the year and who are not participating in singles at the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships will qualify for the event, along with two wild cards. The 12-woman event will feature four groups of three players in a round robin format, then a single-elimination semi-finals and final.