the egyptian tennis player Mayar Sherif beat the german Tamara Korpatsch in two sets (7-6(1) and 6-4) in two hours of play and was proclaimed champion of the WTA 125 AnyTech365 Andalucía Open held in Puente Romano, Marbella.
Two rivals who had never won a title before reached the final and the favorite was Mayar Sherifdue to sensations in the tournament and his status as number 73 in the world, against korpatschwho stood firm in a first set where she put the Egyptian in trouble until the final tie break.
In the second set, the tennis player from Cairo maintained her reliability on serve and continued to punish korpatsch in the key points until, in the final game, the German could do nothing (6-4), who came to the match after eliminating the Spanish Rebekah Marasova in quarters and surprise the French Oceane Dodin in semifinals.
The final lasted two hours and eight minutes and meant the first WTA title for the 25-year-old Egyptian player, who won the first women’s edition of the Andalucía Open in Marbella.