Dementieva crushes Rubin in final

Published September 15, 2003

BALI (Indonesia), Sept 14: Elena Dementieva crushed top seed Chanda Rubin of the U.S. 6-2 6-1 in 65 minutes to win the Wismilak International final on Sunday.

It was the Russian’s second title of the year and at times she was almost unplayable.

After dropping only four points on serve in the first set, Dementieva quickly broke through again and clinched a one-sided contest on her fourth match point.

“It was one of my best matches of the year,” said Dementieva. “I’m definitely a late starter usually and start to play from the end of the second set, but today from the first ball to the end I was very aggressive.”

Rubin said: “Today she was on and didn’t make a whole lot of unforced errors and she was really going for her shots, hitting winners.

“I started off a little bit slow and tried to give myself a chance to get into the match, but I needed another gear that I didn’t have today.”

ATP results

BUCHAREST: Results at the 350,000 euros Romanian Open ATP tournament on Sunday (prefix number denotes seeding):

Quarterfinal result (completed early on Sunday): Jose Acasuso (Argentina) beat John Van Lottum (Netherlands) 4-6 6-2 6-3

Semifinals results: 2-Nicolas Massu (Chile) beat Razvan Sabau (Romania) 6-1 6-4 4-David Sanchez (Spain) beat Jose Acasuso (Argentina) 7-6 (7-4) 6-7 (6-8) 6-3.—Reuters

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