Kanepi captures 2nd career title, Murray in final
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January 8, 2012, Sunday
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KAIA Kanepi won her second WTA title with a dominating performance over Daniela Hantuchova yesterday at the Brisbane International, where Andy Murray was one match from his 22nd career singles title with new coach Ivan Lendl in his corner.
Kanepi won all but one point in the first four games of the second set and went on to beat Hantuchova 6-2, 6-1 in the women's final to add to her 2010 tournament title at Palermo.
Kanepi, from Estonia, had lost all three previous matches against Hantuchova, but is on a 13-3 run since the US Open, including wins in Brisbane against second-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany and third-seeded Francesca Schiavone, the 2010 French Open champion.
With Hantuchova serving, the final game went to deuce seven times before Kanepi won on her fourth championship point.
Murray beat Australian teenager Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-2 in the men's semis and will play today's final against third-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov, who swept aside second-seeded Gilles Simon of France 6-3, 6-4 earlier yesterday.
Murray, aiming to break a grand slam singles drought for British men that extends back to 1936, hired eight-time grand slam winner Lendl as coach.
The 24-year-old Murray has lost the last two Australian Open finals and is 0-3 in major finals, something he's desperate to address at Melbourne Park starting January 16.
"That was good. Served very well today, which is important against Bernard," said Murray, who fired 13 aces and didn't give Tomic any breakpoint chances in the 70-minute match. "Just moving so much better."
Kanepi won all but one point in the first four games of the second set and went on to beat Hantuchova 6-2, 6-1 in the women's final to add to her 2010 tournament title at Palermo.
Kanepi, from Estonia, had lost all three previous matches against Hantuchova, but is on a 13-3 run since the US Open, including wins in Brisbane against second-seeded Andrea Petkovic of Germany and third-seeded Francesca Schiavone, the 2010 French Open champion.
With Hantuchova serving, the final game went to deuce seven times before Kanepi won on her fourth championship point.
Murray beat Australian teenager Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-2 in the men's semis and will play today's final against third-seeded Alexandr Dolgopolov, who swept aside second-seeded Gilles Simon of France 6-3, 6-4 earlier yesterday.
Murray, aiming to break a grand slam singles drought for British men that extends back to 1936, hired eight-time grand slam winner Lendl as coach.
The 24-year-old Murray has lost the last two Australian Open finals and is 0-3 in major finals, something he's desperate to address at Melbourne Park starting January 16.
"That was good. Served very well today, which is important against Bernard," said Murray, who fired 13 aces and didn't give Tomic any breakpoint chances in the 70-minute match. "Just moving so much better."
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