(CNN) -- Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic upset Australian Open champion Kim Clijsters to win the Paris Open with a 6-4 6-3 victory in Sunday's final.
Clijsters will be crowned as the new world number one in the latest WTA rankings, but had no answer to rising force Kvitova in the French capital.
The 20-year-old Kvitova was claiming her third career title but her most famous scalp as Clijsters could not repeat the form which has seen her dominate in recent months.
Kvitova took the lead with an early break and although Clijsters broke back she immediately moved ahead again 4-2 and closed out the set.
It was a similar pattern in the second set with Clijsters recovering to level at 3-3, but she was broken again and Kvitova kept her nerve for a famous victory after just an hour of action. CNN
