American Amanda Anisimova won the UTA 1000 tennis tournament on hard courts in Doha (Qatar), which has a prize fund of 3.65 million dollars, BTA reports. In the final, she defeated Jelena Ostapenko (Latvia) 6:4, 6:3 in 81 minutes and won the first trophy of her career from the UTA 1000.
In the first final in Doha, which featured two tennis players ranked outside the top 30, the former world number 21 Anisimova prevailed in a duel that was accompanied by two interruptions due to rain.
Anisimova reached the first final of her career at the UTA 1000 last summer in Toronto, when she failed to take the title. Currently ranked 41st in the world, the American is close to a top-20 debut.
The American won her third career singles title and her first since Melbourne in 2022. She is also the first US player to win the title in Doha since Monica Seles in 2002.
Anisimova made a decisive breakthrough in the ninth game on her way to victory in the first set, and in the second part she broke her opponent's serve three times and closed the match with her second match point.