Chakvetadze eases to Stanford win
Chakvetadze has won all six tournament finals she has reached The Russian’s sixth career title win takes her up to a career-best ranking of sixth in the world.The 20-year-old Russian dominated from the outset, with her effective groundstrokes sending Mirza running all over the court.The pair also met in Cincinnati last week, where Chakvetadze won the title.Afterwards, Chakvetadze said she had been pleasantly surprised to wrap up the win so quickly.”I didn’t expect to win in
two sets because I’ve been starting so slow and I told myself, ‘I’m not feeling that great to go three sets so I have to finish it faster’,” she said aftewards.”Her forehand is huge but when I made her run it’s tough for her. I was more concentrated on every point.”Mirza said she could feel her chance slip away.”The first set I was there but after I lost the first set she dominated,” Mirza said.”I wasn’t the hitting the ball I as cleanly as I did in my other matches. I think we were both very tired.”