Fourth-seeded Russian Vera Zvonareva stunned defending champion Ana Ivanovic of Serbia 7-6, 6-2 on Sunday lifting the Indian Wells title.
Playing more consistently in difficult gusting winds at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Zvonareva reeled off six games in a row in the second set to wrap up victory in just under two hours.
Both players, battling with service tosses, were broken twice in the opening set. The Russian saved three set points in the 12thgame before holding serve and taking the tiebreak 7-5 after fifth-seeded Ivanovic netted a forehand.
Although the elegant Serb hit a rasping backhand winner down the line to break Zvonareva in the first game of the second set before holding serve to lead 2-0, her resistance quickly folded.
The Russian world number six broke Ivanovic in the fourth, sixth and eighth games to clinch her ninth WTA singles title one day after claiming the women's doubles crown here with Victoria Azarenka of Belarus.
