 Egas Vyontek vs. Maria Sakari is the women's final at Indian Wells for 2022, and both ladies have had different roads to get to the final. Sakari entered the tournament as the number six seed and got a buy in the first round. Her second round matchup was against Czech Sinia Ková and after an easy first set she had to fight in the second set to win 6-3-7-5. In the third round she take on the 27th seed Petra Kovitova and after winning the first set she blitz Kovitova in the second going through in straight sets 6-3-6-love. In the fourth round she take on the qualifier Savl who had had a very impressive run to get to this stage, but unfortunately for Savl it was won too many matches and Sakari ended up getting through thanks to her retirement 4-1 in the first set with Savl retiring. In her quarterfinal matchup she take on the 17th seed Rybakino and after a close first set having to fight back to get it she ended up getting through in straight sets 7-5-6-4. In her semi-final Sakari would take on the number five seed and defending champion Polar Bodosa and after losing the second set which was her first set loss for the week she dominated the third set taking out the defending champion 6-2-4-6-6-1 to advance to her first Masters 1000 final. Egas Fiontek entered the tournament as the third seed and got a buy in the first round. In the second round she take on unseeded Ukrainian Kalanina and after dropping the first set very closely she blitzed it in the second two eventually winning in three 5-7-6-love 6-1. In the third round she take on fellow young gun and the number 29 seed Talzin and again after dropping the first set she fought back to win in three 6-7-6-2-6-1. In the fourth round she take on veteran and number 15 seed Angelik Kerber and again after dropping the first set she had to fight back to win getting through in three 4-6-6-2-6-3. In her quarterfinal matchup she take on American and number 25 seed Madison Keyes and this was the best performance from Shriantek for the week dominating the American in straight sets 6-1-6-love. Shriantek would take on number 24 seed Hellup in the semi-finals who had a really good run up until this stage. The first set was going back and forth a very close tie break Shriantek held a nerve and after an injury to Hellup in the second Shriantek cruised a victory winning in straight sets 7-6-6-4 to advance to the final. These two have played four times before with Sakurai winning 3-1 in the last couple of years but the last time they played was a couple of weeks ago in Doha with Shriantek finally getting her first win against his opponent. If Sakurai is going to win she needs to be aggressive like she has been against Shriantek in the past except for that Doha match a couple of weeks ago she had been very aggressive in their previous matches and that really frustrated Shriantek. If Shriantek is going to win she needs to keep her calm. I know she does that against most players but against Sakurai for some reason she gets a little angry a little frustrated and she needs to keep her cool. Also the confidence of the win a couple of weeks ago should go a long way. This is a very tough match for me because we know that Ega loves playing in big finals. She always wins the big matches in the finals but I'm going to go with Sakurai to win her first Masters 1000 trophy. I feel like she's due for one over the last 12 months. She's been amazing. She's had a career high ranking. I think she's going to finally get that big trophy. Let me know down in the comments below who do you think is going to win this final.