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Wozniacki wins Florida tournament
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 13 - 04 - 2009

Second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark beat Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak 6-1, 6-2 Sunday to win the WTA claycourt tournament here.
Denmark's Wozniacki made just 14 unforced errors and won 84 percent of points on her first serve to lift the trophy.
Wozniak, the fifth seed who had upset top-seeded Nadia Petrova in the semifinals, trailed 3-1 in the opening set and surrendered two more games with double-faults.
Wozniacki earned the first break of the second set to lead 4-2, and Wozniak won just three points in the last two games.
Down 3-1 in the first set, Wozniak double-faulted away two games.
Wozniacki claimed her fourth career title and her first of 2009.
Ferrero ends title drought
In Casablanca, Spain's former world number one Juan Carlos Ferrero won his first title in more than five years on Sunday in taking the 450,000 euros Casablanca claycourt event with a 6-4, 7-5 win over French fifth seed Florent Serra.
Ferrero, unseeded, came through from a field which was devoid of top 20 players and where Russian Igor Andreev was the top seed.
The Spanish veteran, who turned 29 in February and won the French Open in 2003 for his only Grand Slam, took his career haul to 12 singles titles and 397 match wins.
Jankovic wins title
World number four Jelena Jankovic battled to a 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 win over Carla Suarez Navarro on Sunday to claim her first title of the season at the Andalucia Tennis Championships.
The Spaniard gave Jankovic a stiff test in sunny and breezy conditions on the clay in Marbella but the Serbian second seed prevailed thanks to her consistency and power.
In the semifinals, Jankovic beat Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues 7-5, 6-2 and Navarro battled past Romania's Sorana Cirstea 6-2, 6-7, 6-2.
Jankovic won the first set relatively comfortably with two breaks of serve before Suarez Navarro produced a string of superb passing shots to claim the second.
The 34th-ranked Suarez Navarro's challenge faded in the deciding set and she allowed Jankovic to storm into a 5-1 lead.
Jankovic eventually sealed victory and her 10th career title when Suarez Navarro netted a return on the fifth match point.
Hewitt in final
Lleyton Hewitt of Australia reached his first clay court final in a decade with a 7-6 (4), 6-4 victory over Evgeny Korolev of Russia at the US Men's Clay Court Championships on Saturday.
The former No. 1 player will meet Wayne Odesnik of the United States in Sunday's title match. Odesnik beat Germany's Bjorn Phau 6-4, 6-3 in their semifinal.
Hewitt won his 498th career match, moving him closer to joining Roger Federer and Carlos Moya as the only active players with 500 wins.


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