 Jessica Pagula vs. Egas Fiontech is the final of the Qatar Open for 2023, and both players have had different roads to get to the final stage. Pagula entered the tournament as the number two seed and will get a buy in the first round. In the second round, she take on Oster Penko, who had had a very good solid start to the season, making a quarterfinal of this round open. And after being down 5-2 in the final set and saving multiple match points, Pagula came back from the brink, winning in 3-6-2-2-6-7-5 to get a very impressive win. In the quarterfinals, she would take on Haddad Mayer, who had taken out the number six seed, Kazak Kena. But this was no problem for Pagula getting through in straight sets, 6-3-6-2. In the semifinals, she would take on the number five seed, Sakkari. And after a little laps in concentration in the second set, she'd eventually get through in 3-6-2-4-6-6-1 to advance to the final. Fiontech entered the tournament as the number one seed and will get a buy in the first round. In the second round, she take on Danielle Collins in a matchup that was so hyped due to the fact that Collins had beaten Fiontech in their previous meeting. But Fiontech turned it up, winning in less than an hour, 6-1-6-1. In the quarterfinals, Fiontech was due to play the number 7 seed, Bencich, who had been on such a run, winning Abu Dhabi the week before and getting through Azarenka in the second round. Unfortunately, Bencich decided to withdraw due to fatigue, giving Fiontech the easy win. In the semifinals, Fiontech would take on the number 8 seed, Kudamatova, who had beaten Krajikova and Goff to get to this stage. And again, Fiontech just turned it up, winning in less than an hour again, 6-1-6-1 to advance to another Doha final as the defending champ. They still played six times before, which Fiontech leading the head-to-head 4-2, including winning all of their matches that they played last season. But Pagola did get the straight sets win at the start of the year and in the United Cup, representing America against Poland and it was a straight sets beat down, which we've never seen before from Pagola against Fiontech. If Pagola is going to win this one, she's going to have to play well in this wind. It's been very windy the last couple of days and she has been very smart when playing in the wind. It's going to be very windy in the final tomorrow according to the forecast, so she's going to have to slice the ball, come to the net, and really put in the variety against Fiontech. If Fiontech's going to win, she just needs to do what she's been doing. She absolutely destroyed Kudamatova and it was super windy. It felt like it wasn't even windy on that day, but she is going to have to do exactly that again against Pagola and I guess she has the confidence of knowing that she's beaten Pagola badly in matches before. This is going to be a very fun match and I wonder if the elements are going to play apart if it's going to be windy, if that's going to make a difference, but I'm going to go against Fiontech in straight sets. I think it's going to be closer than Fiontech's other straight sets matches this week, but I feel like Fiontech right now, the way she's playing is just like she was during that February to June streak that she had last year, where she just kicked everyone's butt. Let me know down in the comments below who's going to win this final.