Dhaka, April 13 -- Japanese number one Moyuka Uchijima beat Romania's Anca Todoni to dash Romania's hopes of reaching the Finals after Ena Shibahara had got Japan off to a flying start in their Billie Jean King Cup Qualifiers Group A clash on Saturday.

Shibahara beat Miriam Bulgaru 7-5 6-2 and Uchijima overcame Todoni 3-6 7-6(3) 6-2 in two and half hours in Tokyo to set up a winner-takes-all showdown with Canada on Sunday.Todoni earned the first break to move ahead 4-2 in the opening set and maintained her advantage to close it out 6-3.

The Romanian also led for much of the second set before Uchijima saved two match points and broke back to force a tiebreak.

Uchijima dominated that and broke Todoni twice in the third set to seal victor...