Simona Halep (20 WTA) won the Melbourne Summer Set 1 tournament , live on Digi Sport 2 , after the clear victory in the final against the Russian Veronika Kudermetova (31 WTA), score 6-2, 6-3 .
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Simona Halep climbs the WTA ranking after the triumph in Melbourne Summer Set 1
It is the WTA title number 23 in the career of Simona Halep (30 years old). Following this triumph, Simona Halep will climb to 15th place in the world ranking.
The match lasted one hour and 15 minutes. Simona Halep hit eight straight winners and committed 13 unforced errors. Veronika Kudermetova hit 10 game-winners and committed 27 unforced errors.
For winning the Melbourne Summer Set 1 tournament, Simona Halep will receive 31,000 dollars and 280 points in the WTA ranking.
After pulling out of the Sydney tournament from next week, Simona Halep remains in Melbourne and prepares for her debut in the 2022 Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tournament of the year.
Darren Cahill is in the stands to watch his former student’s match.
UPDATE 09:35 Simona Halep – Veronika Kudermetova 6-2, 0-1. The Russian manages the break in the beginning of the second set. Simona has a more passive game and gives her opponent the opportunity to hit decisively with the lapel diagonally, at 30-40.
UPDATE 09:29 Simona Halep – Veronika Kudermetova 6-2. Break and set for Romanian! Simona wins five games in a row, and the Russian looks demoralized. The first set lasted 35 minutes.
UPDATE 08:55 Simona Halep will serve at the start of the match.
UPDATE 08:50 Simona Halep and Veronika Kudermetova came out on the court. Warm-up minutes follow.
UPDATE 08:28 The Amanda Anisimova – Aliaksandra Sasnovich match ended with the victory of the athlete from the USA, score 7-5, 1-6, 6-4. After this confrontation, the Simona Halep – Veronika Kudermetova match starts, around 09:00.
UPDATE 07:50 The start of the game will be delayed. The match on the Rod Laver arena will start after the final of the Melbourne Summer Set 2 tournament, Amanda Anisimova – Aliaksandra Sasnovich, who reached the decisive set (7-5, 1-6, 0-2).
In Melbourne, Simona Halep debuted with a match against Destanee Aiava, won in two sets, 6-4, 6-2, after an hour and 20 minutes of tennis. A similar experience was for the Romanian in the round of 16, when she got past Gabriela Ruse, 6-2, 6-1.
In the quarters, however, Simona Halep had a complicated mission, but she finally managed, after more than two and a half hours of play, to overcome Vijtorija Golubic, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4 .
