Eastbourne 2019: Final countdown

CENTRE COURT -- 12:30 p.m. start
Singles Final -- [4/WC] Angelique KERBER (GER) vs. [2] Karolina PLISKOVA (CZE)
Not before 3:00 p.m., following 1 ATP match
Doubles Final -- Kirsten FLIPKENS (BEL) / Bethanie MATTEK-SANDS (USA) vs. CHAN Hao-ching (TPE) / Latisha CHAN (TPE)

MATCH POINTS

Former World No.1 players Angelique Kerber and Karolina Pliskova

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Reigning Wimbledon champion Kerber leads the head-to-head 7-4, and has won their only prior match on grass, which was the 2015 Birmingham final. Kerber needed a final-set tiebreak to win that match and claim the first grass-court title of her career.

Pliskova won their most recent match, which was a straight-set victory on the indoor clay of Stuttgart in a Fed Cup match last April.

Kerber is a two-time runner-up at Eastbourne, falling to Tamira Paszek in the 2012 final and Madison Keys

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Germany's Kerber received a walkover into the final after Ons Jabeur

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Pliskova has not dropped a set en route to making the Eastbourne final for the third time in four years. The Czech won the title in 2017, defeating Caroline Wozniacki

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In the doubles draw, Kirsten Flipkens and Bethanie Mattek-Sands have reached the final of their first tournament as partners. They will play the Chan sisters, Latisha and Hao-ching, for the Nature Valley International doubles crown. The final features two former World No.1 players in doubles (Mattek-Sands and Latisha Chan).