Tamarine Tanasugarn beat Kimiko Date Krumm 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 in the Japan Women's Open final Sunday, spoiling the 40-year-old Japanese player's bid to become the oldest WTA Tour singles winner. The 33-year-old Thai broke the sixth-seeded Date Krumm twice in the third set to take control in a match that lasted 3 hours, 7 minutes. "I tried to be more aggressive in the third set and I finally made it," said Tanasugarn, who claimed her fourth career title. "This is a great feeling and hopefully I can continue to play like this and get a good start to 2011." Date Krumm, who turned 40 last month, was bidding to become the oldest player to win a WTA singles title. Billie Jean King won in Birmingham in 1983 when she was 39 years, 7 months, 23 days. Date Krumm is already the second oldest player to win a title after her victory in Seoul last year at 38 years and 11 months. http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/tennis/news/story?id=5695542
