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Lucky Loser Olga Danilovic is a Winner at Moscow River Cup

July 29, 2018 by Tennis Panorama News

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(July 29, 2018) A Lucky Loser is a winner this week on the WTA Tour – Olga Danilovic of Serbia won her first WTA title when she defeated Russian wild card Anastasia Potapova 7-5, 6-7 (1), 6-4 to win the Moscow River Cup on Sunday.

It was a battle between the two 17-year-olds for the title. Danilovic lost in the first round of qualifying, came back into the tournament as a Lucky Loser and upended top seed Julia Georges in the quarterfinals. She is the first Lucky Loser to win a WTA title.

Danilovic, who is 17 and 187 days, is the first player born in the 2000s to win a WTA title and the youngest champion since Aha Konjuh at 2015 Nottingham.

 

Moscow River Cup presented by Ingrad
July 23 – 29, 2018
Moscow, Russia
$750,000

Singles – Final
[LL] O. Danilovic (SRB) d [WC] A. Potapova (RUS) 75 67(1) 64

Doubles – Final
A. Potapova (RUS) / V. Zvonareva (RUS) d [PR] A. Panova (RUS) / G. Voskoboeva (KAZ) 60 63

Semifinals
A. Potapova (RUS) / V. Zvonareva (RUS) d K. Kozlova (UKR) / N. Vikhlyantseva (RUS) 63 76(2)

JiangXi Open
July 23 – 29, 2018
Nanchang, China
$250,000

Singles – Final
[2] Qiang. Wang (CHN) d [6] S. Zheng (CHN) 75 40 ret. (abdominal pain)

Doubles – Final
X. Jiang (CHN) / Q. Tang (CHN) d Jin. Lu (CHN) / X. You (CHN) 64 64

Qiang Wang, Zhang Saisai wins her first WTA title with her victory. Zheng was also appearing in her first WTA final, having previously fallen in the semifinals at Tianjin in 2014, Shenzhen in 2015 and Nottingham in 2017.

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Filed Under: Front Page News, tennis news, tournaments Tagged With: Anastasia Potapova, Moscow River Cup, Olga Danilovic, tennis, tennis news, WTA Tour

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