Romania’s Simona Halep won the Canadian Open for the third time in her career on Sunday, beating Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in the final in Toronto.
Halep, number 15 and former world number one, added the Canadian victory to those she won in 2016 and 2018, against a Haddad Maia who became the first Brazilian capable of reaching the final of a WTA 1000 tournament.
The Romanian player now has 25 titles to her name, among which the titles of Roland Garros 2018 and Wimbledon 2019 also shine, and this victory will allow her to return to the group of the ten best tennis players in the world. He will be number six in the standings from Monday.
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She needed to pull out her best competitive version to finish off Haddad Maia, who had beaten world number one Iga Swiatek of Poland en route to this final.
Maia started in the best of ways, becoming the first Brazilian capable of beating the current world number one in this tournament.
She escaped 3-0 with a break lead, but Halep’s reaction was forceful, with a six-match streak that saw her win the first set 6-3.
When the game restarted, the Romanian canceled two break points in the first game and took the serve of her rival in the second and fourth games, which put her on the way to the title downhill.
He condemned the duel with a 6-3 after a battle of two hours and 16 minutes and celebrated his third crown in Canada.
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