Krajicek Captures Hobart for Second Career Title
January 13, 2006
Krajicek Captures Hobart for Second Career Title
HOBART, Australia - Dutch teenager Michaella Krajicek continued to assert
herself as one of the most promising future stars on the Sony Ericsson WTA
Tour in Hobart on Friday, winning her second Tour singles title at the
Moorilla Hobart International with a convincing championship victory over
friend and practice partner Iveta Benesova.
Krajicek, unseeded at the $145,000 Tier IV event, put on an impressive
display of aggressive tennis in Friday's evening final to defeat the
No.5-seeded Benesova 62 61 in 49 minutes. Krajicek continually put pressure
on the Benesova serve, breaking the 22-year-old left-hander's delivery
several times throughout the match, while she herself pounded big serves and
groundstrokes to completely dictate play and cruise to victory over her good
friend.
"I feel very good," Krajicek said after the win. "I played a tremendous match.
It was one of my best matches in my whole career. I’m very happy to win my
second title so soon. It gives me a lot of confidence for the Australian Open.
I’ve played a lot of matches and I think I’m in good shape."
The Dutch teenager, who just turned 17-years-old on Monday, continued to set
herself up as one of the biggest prospects for a major breakthrough in 2006.
She finished off 2005 in impressive fashion, coming back from a three-month
knee injury lay-off to capture her first Tour singles title at the Tier IV
event in Tashkent, and then surprised everyone again at Hasselt, reaching her
very first Tier III semifinal, notching her first Top 20 victory over Nathalie
Dechy along the way and almost taking down another Top 20 player, Francesca
Schiavone, in the final four. Krajicek has already started this year off in
good form, winning three matches at the Hopman Cup en route to a runner-up f
inish for The Netherlands, and now winning the title in Hobart.
For Benesova, the runner-up finish is the fourth in five career Tour singles
finals. She has one Tour singles title to her name, winning at Acapulco in
2004, but has finished second place three other times, at Bratislava in 2002
and at Estoril and Forest Hills in 2004. Benesova had a solid week nonetheless,
her biggest win being a two tie-break defeat of No.4 seed Amy Frazier in the
quarters.
In the doubles final, top seeds Emilie Loit and Nicole Pratt downed No.5
seeds Jill Craybas and Jelena Kostanic by an identical score of 62 61. It is
the 15th career Tour doubles title for Loit, who won six of those tournaments
last season, and the seventh career Tour doubles title for Pratt.
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