KPB accept as true with girls's Open: Tactful Maria annexes identify
Bengaluru: Tatjana Maria's slice-heavy protective game isn't always for adrenaline junkies. however Leolia Jeanjean's recreation is packed with aggressive shot-making that thrives on chance-taking.
If Germany's Maria likes building on factors to wear down the opponent, France's Jeanjean uses electricity-packed groundstrokes to catch her rivals off-protect.
On Sunday, at the karnataka nation garden tennis association, the ladies's singles final became a contest between players with opposite personalities fighting it out for the KPB believe girls's Open name.
Punches and counter punches were exchanged at will, however at the end it became the 37-yr-old Maria's tact and resilience that tired out the 29-12 months-vintage Jeanjean. The pinnacle-seeded Maria lived-as much as the billing by prevailing the 2-hour forty one-minute warfare with a 6-7 (0-7), 6-3, 6-4 scoreline.
Australian Open 2025: Jannik Sinner beats Alexander Zverev to win third grand slam"It become an intense fit these days, like the semifinal. i'm first-rate glad that I may want to win the identify," Maria said. "that is my second identify right here in India."
It wasn't a really perfect begin for Maria as Jeanjean had a solution to every question thrown at her. The French, who for the duration of the week had drawn eyeballs for her mood tantrums, delivered out her calmer self and served Maria a flavor of her very own medicine to bemuse the German. Jeanjean, met her warring parties' slice with a slice, served and volleyed and used deft drops to shut-out a interesting commencing set through a tie-breaker.
It changed into the 0.33 recreation in the second set that the momentum started shifting closer to Maria. Down by means of wreck-factors, Jeanjean's temper began to flare up. the ones signs and symptoms have been enough for Maria to make a price that gave her a spoil to move ahead 2-1 earlier than operating her way lower back to assert the second one set.
all of it got here all the way down to all or nothing within the third where both players ran right down to respond to every different's angular pictures and were worried in lengthy rallies. trading breaks till the eighth recreation, the world No. ninety Maria broke once more inside the tenth and took the trophy domestic with her traveling circle of relatives.
"She's a intricate participant and proficient. she can do loads of factors and i knew that she may want to come to the net, she plays excellent volleys, she performs slices, she will be able to play from the baseline.
"I knew that now and again, mentally, she has a few breaks (breakdowns), so i was looking to awareness in this and to preserve going. at the end it turned into a big combat," supplied Maria, who took domestic a cheque for $15,239 and a hundred WTA rating points.
end result (final): 1-Tatjana Maria (Ger) bt 7-Leolia Jeanjean
Bengaluru: Tatjana Maria's slice-heavy protective game isn't always for adrenaline junkies. however Leolia Jeanjean's recreation is packed with aggressive shot-making that thrives on chance-taking.
If Germany's Maria likes building on factors to wear down the opponent, France's Jeanjean uses electricity-packed groundstrokes to catch her rivals off-protect.
On Sunday, at the karnataka nation garden tennis association, the ladies's singles final became a contest between players with opposite personalities fighting it out for the KPB believe girls's Open name.
Punches and counter punches were exchanged at will, however at the end it became the 37-yr-old Maria's tact and resilience that tired out the 29-12 months-vintage Jeanjean. The pinnacle-seeded Maria lived-as much as the billing by prevailing the 2-hour forty one-minute warfare with a 6-7 (0-7), 6-3, 6-4 scoreline.
Australian Open 2025: Jannik Sinner beats Alexander Zverev to win third grand slam"It become an intense fit these days, like the semifinal. i'm first-rate glad that I may want to win the identify," Maria said. "that is my second identify right here in India."
It wasn't a really perfect begin for Maria as Jeanjean had a solution to every question thrown at her. The French, who for the duration of the week had drawn eyeballs for her mood tantrums, delivered out her calmer self and served Maria a flavor of her very own medicine to bemuse the German. Jeanjean, met her warring parties' slice with a slice, served and volleyed and used deft drops to shut-out a interesting commencing set through a tie-breaker.
It changed into the 0.33 recreation in the second set that the momentum started shifting closer to Maria. Down by means of wreck-factors, Jeanjean's temper began to flare up. the ones signs and symptoms have been enough for Maria to make a price that gave her a spoil to move ahead 2-1 earlier than operating her way lower back to assert the second one set.
all of it got here all the way down to all or nothing within the third where both players ran right down to respond to every different's angular pictures and were worried in lengthy rallies. trading breaks till the eighth recreation, the world No. ninety Maria broke once more inside the tenth and took the trophy domestic with her traveling circle of relatives.
"She's a intricate participant and proficient. she can do loads of factors and i knew that she may want to come to the net, she plays excellent volleys, she performs slices, she will be able to play from the baseline.
"I knew that now and again, mentally, she has a few breaks (breakdowns), so i was looking to awareness in this and to preserve going. at the end it turned into a big combat," supplied Maria, who took domestic a cheque for $15,239 and a hundred WTA rating points.
end result (final): 1-Tatjana Maria (Ger) bt 7-Leolia Jeanjean