Victoria Azarenka (1)

Up to 16 now! Vika makes the final and takes on Samantha Stosur. Will she take her first P5 Title and her 3rd Title of the year?

-17 Match Winning Streak and Doha Title for Azarenka
-Has yet to lose a match in 2012
-Her 5th Consecutive Final
-11th Single Title and 1st Premier 5
-Climbs to the 18th Highest Prize Winner in Women's Tennis of All Time
-Next tournament is Doha were she receives a bye to the second round

Withdrew from Dubai

19 Match winning streak. Through to 4R of Indian Wells.

Vika through to the QF of Indian Wells. Her winning streak has increased to 20.

Vika through to SFs. Her 21 winning streak equals that of Serena Williams in 2003

Final tomorrow against Sharapova

Nine days ago she was on the verge of it all coming to an end, just two points from losing her opening match. But no one has more belief these days, and after surviving that one Victoria Azarenka just got better - now she is the Indian Wells champion and 23-0 on the year.

Last Friday, Azarenka survived a three-hour thriller against young German Mona Barthel, originally leading 64 51 but eventually finding herself down 4-1 in the third set, even two points from losing down 5-3, 30-0 - she was two points from losing again in the tie-break but managed to scrape through, 64 67(4) 76(6).

Azarenka had beaten Barthel routinely at the Australian Open and Doha.

"I never really heard much about her before this year, and now I have to play her every tournament!" Azarenka said afterwards. "She really stepped it up and showed incredible strokes and serves. All the credit to her. It was survival."

No one would come close again. The No.1-ranked Azarenka lost a total of just nine games in her next three matches, then scored a 64 63 win over No.15 seed Angelique Kerber in the semifinals, which would be her next-closest match all tournament long - that win pushed her 2012 record to 22-0, making hers the best start to a season since Martina Hingis went 37-0 to kick 1997 off.

In a rare match-up between the Top 2, in fact the first WTA final featuring the Top 2 in more than four years, Azarenka faced World No.2 Maria Sharapova in the final, a head-to-head she has dominated as of late, winning all three of their previous finals in straight sets. In their last one at the Australian Open in January, she won nine straight games from 3-all to run away with it, 63 60.

The streak is over. Marion Bartoli ends it after trashing Vika in straight sets.