Elena Rybakina needed just over an hour on Sunday to roll to her title title of 2024 at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart.
After snapping world No.1 Iga Swiatek's 10-match winning streak in a nearly three-hour semifinal on Saturday, the fourth-ranked Kazakh was dominant in a 6-2, 6-2 win over unseeded Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in the championship match to add to a season's title haul that also includes victories in Brisbane and Abu Dhabi thus far.
Rybakina broke Kostyuk in the first game of the match and hardly put a foot wrong from then on. In the opener, she lost just one point behind her first serve, and never faced a break point. In set two, Rybakina also broke Kostyuk's serve in the first game, and slammed the door on the only opportunities the 21-year-old had in the match five games later. A six-deuce sixth game proved crucial, in which Rybakina saved all three break points she faced in the match.
20 апр 2024
