Simona Halep beats Elena Rybakina to win Dubai tennis Championship

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Sat, 22 Feb 2020 - 09:22 GMT

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No.1 seed Simona Halep has won her second Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title, after beating 20 –year- old Kazakh Elena Rybakina in Saturday's final

No.1 seed Simona Halep has won her second Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title, after beating 20 –year- old Kazakh Elena Rybakina in Saturday's final

DUBAI - 22 February 2020: No.1 seed Simona Halep has won her second Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title, after beating 20 –year- old Kazakh Elena Rybakina in Saturday's final.

Despite of losing the first set (3-6), Halep notched her 20th career title and the first of the season, as she made an impressive come back in the match, winning the 2nd set (6-3), and the 3rd set 7-6(5).

" My goal is to keep winning titles this season and focus on my game," Halep said. " I think playing against her was tough. She's young. She doesn't feel the fear. She doesn't think too much about the result. What it comes now is a bonus, in my opinion, for her. She's strong. She has a huge serve. She's tall. She has power. I think she's really good to get into the top 10 very soon." She added.

With her 20th title, Halep has drawn level with Victoria Azarenka in sixth place on the list of active title winners (behind Serena and Venus Williams, Kim Clijsters, Maria Sharapova and Petra Kvitova).

On the other side, the runner up, Rybakina, will move to world no.19. It is the fourth final for her this season.

The Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships is owned and organised by Dubai Duty Free and held under the patronage of H. H. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. The tournament continues between 24th and 29th February with the ATP event which features Wimbledon and Australian Open champion and world number 1 Novak Djokovic, ATP Finals winner Stefanos Tsitsipas, 2020 Rotterdam and Montpellier champion Gael Monfils and 2018 Dubai winner Roberto Bautista Agut.

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