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Pigossi wins biggest title to date in Pune

Jamie Renton

15 Mar 2021

Brazilian Laura Pigossi won the biggest singles title of her career to date on the ITF World Tennis Tour after inching past Ukraine’s Marianna Zakarlyuk 6-0 3-6 7-6(5) in the final at W25 Pune.

The 26-year-old Brazilian, whose triumph at W15 Villena in February was her first professional singles title in five years, now has six ITF singles titles to her name and boasts a 13-1 win-loss record for the year.

Pigossi has enjoyed her greatest success in doubles, winning 38 ITF doubles titles to date and reaching a high of No. 125 in the WTA doubles rankings last year.

Currently at No. 374 in singles, Pigossi is the fourth-highest ranked Brazilian woman, behind No. 250 Gabriela Ce, No. 337 Beatriz Haddad Maia and No. 370 Carolina Alves.

At the other W25 level-tournament to take place last week, Yuliya Hatouka won her second title of the year – and first at W25 level since 2018 – after defeating Urszula Radwanska 7-6(6) 4-6 6-4 in the final at W25 Kazan.

It was a ninth ITF singles crown overall for the 20-year-old world No. 333, with all but two of those triumphs coming on hard courts.

Runner-up Radwanska’s run to the final was her second in as many tournaments, having collected her first title since 2019 at W25 Moscow at the end of February.

Meanwhile, 18-year-old Sohyun Park won her second professional singles title at the same venue as her first – winning the W15 Antalya tournament nearly two years after her last triumph there with a 6-4 6-0 victory over Italian Nuria Brancaccio.

The South Korean, who has played exclusively on clay this season and amassed an 18-7 win-loss record on the surface in 2021, is up to a career-high ranking of No. 447.

Marina Bassols Ribera collected her fifth ITF singles crown - and first on a hard court - after defeating Camilla Rosatello 7-5 6-2 in the final at W15 Manacor.

It was the 21-year-old Spaniard’s second triumph at the Rafa Nadal academy, having also won a W15 title there in 2019.

Australian Seone Mendez kept up her winning form against French players after defeating four native players en route to the title at W15+H Amiens.

The 21-year-old Australian, who defeated Argentine Paula Ormaechea 6-4 6-2 in the final, had won six of her previous seven matches against players from France in a run which also took in a semi-final finish at W25 Poitiers at the end of February.

Her triumph in Amiens – her 11th ITF singles title overall - was her first since 2019, when she won an impressive seven titles on the ITF World Tennis Tour.

Former junior world No. 16 Jana Kolodynska was last week’s only first-time ITF singles titlist, overcoming Italian Lucrezia Stefanini in a fiercely contested final at W15 Monastir.

The 17-year-old Belarusian made the most of her junior reserved entry to win 1-6 6-0 7-6(5) in her 11th professional event on the ITF World Tennis Tour. It was also the first time she had surpassed the second round at a professional-level tournament.

Yuriko Lily Miyazaki emerged triumphant at a W15 event in Sharm El Sheikh dominated by Japanese players, with four players from the nation contesting the semi-finals.

In the end it was 25-year-old Miyazaki who prevailed, surviving five three-set encounters through the week to claim her third ITF singles crown following a 6-2 4-6 6-3 win over Momoko Kobori in the final.

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