Serbia's top seed Janko Tipsarevic won the ATP title of the joint WTA/ATP 1.5-million-dollar Kremlin Cup tournament here Sunday, beating second seed and his compatriot Viktor Troicki 6-4, 6-2. Earlier, eighth seed Slovak Dominika Cibulkova battled back from a set down to win her first ever title beating Kaia Kanepi of Estonia 3-6, 7-6 (7/1), 7-5 in the WTA final. The eighth-seeded Cibulkova is the first women's player to win a maiden title in Moscow since the tournament started in 1994. “This is the first time I've won my title, this a kind of my premiere,” Cibulkova said. Monfils wins title Gael Monfils won his first title in a year Sunday when he defeated Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 to claim the Stockholm Open crown. Monfils, ranked 20th but provisional 15th in the 2011 points chase to next month's ATP World Tour Finals in London, kept his qualifying chances alive for the eight-man season wrap-up. The fighting Finn saved three match points before driving a forehand wide to lose in just under two hours. Azarenka eases to win Belarusian Victoria Azarenka cantered to her third title of the year in Luxembourg Sunday beating Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2, 6-2. The top-seeded Azarenka, 22, broke Niculescu in the third game of the first set to go on and take the set in half an hour and then broke the Romanian again in the first game of the second set. Azarenka, who has never lost in four meetings with her opponent, was overjoyed with her form heading into the season-ending Masters in Istanbul this week.
