BRUSSELS OPEN – Agnieska Radwanska Wins

Written by: Staff on 26th May 2012

BRUSSELS OPEN - Agnieska Radwanska Wins

epa03235118 Polish Agnieszka Radwanska returns the ball during the semi final game between Polish Agnieszka Radwanska and Estonian Kaia Kanepi, at the WTA Brussels Open, Belgium, 25 May 2012. The second edition of WTA Brussels Open tennis tournament takes place from 19 to 26 May 2012. EPA/JULIEN WARNAND |

Brussels, Belgium

May 21-26, 2012

$637,000/Premier

Red Clay/Outdoors

Results – Saturday, May 26, 2012

Singles – Final

(1) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) d. Simona Halep (ROU) 75 60

Doubles – Final

(4) Mattek-Sands/Mirza (USA/IND) d. (3) Rosolska/Zheng (POL/CHN) 63 62

Final Facts

– Radwanska wins her 10th career WTA title and third this year and improves her record in finals to 10-2.

– Radwanska has won five straight WTA finals, all of them Premier-level.

– Radwanska surpasses Victoria Azarenka for most match wins on the WTA this year with her 36th.

– Halep falls to 0-3 in her career in WTA finals.

– Halep upset No.6 seed Jelena Jankovic and No.4 seed Dominika Cibulkova en route to the final.

– Halep rises to a new career-high ranking of No.37.

– Mattek-Sands and Mirza win their second title as a duo, their first coming in Cincinnati in 2007.

– Mattek-Sands now has 10 WTA doubles titles. Mirza has 14.

Final Quotes

Agnieszka Radwanska: “On clay I think I need longer to warm up, not just the five minutes before the match. At the end I won nine games in a row – it was a good comeback, I think. And it’s always great to win a tournament.

“I’m happy to get some good preparation in ahead of the French Open.”

Simona Halep: “I had some chances in the first set on my serve and I didn’t take them. But it was my first Premier final and I’m really happy for it. I improved a lot this week and had some good wins against some tough players – I really like it here in Brussels and I want to come back.”

Sania Mirza: “It’s great to win our second tournament back together – last week we were unlucky to play the No.1 seeds in the second round. We had tough opponents today – when you come into a final your opponents are there because they’ve been playing well all week, so we just tried to get the important points and then concentrate on staying ahead when we were ahead.

“It’s a great win and gives us a lot of confidence going into Paris.”

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