Washington 8th August : Daria Kasatkina continued her winning streak on Sunday, defeating American Shelby Rogers 6-7 (2-7) 6-1 6-1, in the final of the Silicon Valley Classic.Russia’s Kasatkina had her most awe-inspiring grand slam performance earlier in the year when she reached the semifinals of the French Open, where she was defeated by the world’s top player Iga Swiatek.with this title in singles – the fifth of her WTA career she she has achieved the career-high rank of 9th in the world.
In the match against Rogers The story was about the power of Kasatkina’s tennis serve continued to increase as the match progressed.
In the gruelling first set Kasatkina was able to score just 53 percent (26-of-49) of her service points she allowed two break of serve before fumbling in the tie-break to lose five points in a row.
Things changed from then from that point with Kasatkina getting better to gain 69 percent (18-of-26) of her service points in the second frame.Then, that went up to 76 percent percentage (16-of-21) in the decider as she either came up with a solution or Rogers lost all of energy.
Kasatkina didn’t miss one break point in the first set and she converted four of her chances to win a double-break in both the third and the second.
Rogers did not lose one set in her four matches to the final which put the exclamation point on a fantastic run by Kasatkina which included victories over Elena Rybakina, world number 27 and the world’s number six Aryna Sabalenka, and third-ranked world Paula Badosa, reprorts DPA.
In the early hours in the day, Liudmila Samsonova secured her second singles title of her career on the WTA Tour by defeating Kaia Kanepi in the final of the Citi Open.
Unseeded Russian Samsonova defeated Estonian Kanepi 4-6 6-1, 6-3, 6-3 win the crown in Washington on Sunday.
It was Kanepi the tournament’s sixth seed who was the first to strike in the opening set, which was a tight one with solid serving from both players, and pinning on the sole break point chance in the 10th set.
While Samsonova scored at least 70 percent of her points of service in the first and third of the three sets, Kanepi’s efficiency declined after the opening set, with a 77 per percent (20-of-26) percent success in the opening set and then dropping to 63 percent (15-of-24) in the second and third (12-of-19) to give Kanepi Russian with an opportunity to return to the competition.
Kanepi was leading 3-2 in the second set but Samsonova won the following five games with an unbreakable double break in the process, and forcing a decisive set.
In a tightly contested third frame with Samsonova in the lead 4-3, she created three break point opportunities , and only needed one to secure a buffer, and then serve out the match to win the title.
This is her first major singles win since her debut win at the German Open 14 months ago and she only lost two sets in the process, while beating five seed Elise Mertens, second seed Emma Raducanu, China’s Wang Xiyu and the Australian Ajla Tomljanovic.
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