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Pica powers to first WTA title

France,Sports, Sun, 25 May 2014 IANS

Strasbourg (France), May 25 (IANS) Puerto Rican No.1 Monica Puig won her first WTA title Saturday, beating Spain's Silvia Soler-Espinosa in the final of the Strasbourg International.

Puig, whose tweets often include the hashtag #PicaPower, went into the match ranked 56, and is considered a rising star of the WTA circuit. She took just one hour and 10 minutes to see off the 118th-ranked Spaniard 6-4, 6-3. Both players were contesting their first ever WTA final, reported Xinhua.

Puig's serve proved all-powerful during the match. The Puerto Rican not only held all nine of her service games, she gave up a total of just nine points on her delivery, and two of those were double faults.

The two now turn their attention to Roland Garros where Puig faces a tough first round match against Australia's Samantha Stosur, ranked 20th, while Soler-Espinosa takes on South Africa's Chanelle Scheepers.

Puig had previously won six singles titles on the ITF circuit, but Strasbourg represents a major step forward in the 20-year-old's career. In Friday's semifinal she defeated another rising WTA star, American Madison Keys, also in straight sets. Puig is also the first Puerto Rican player ever to win a WTA title.


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