Zheng Qinwen collected her second title in as many weeks – and her first at W25 level – at W25 Marbella to continue her red-hot run of form since the resumption of the ITF World Tennis Tour.

The 17-year-old Chinese player, who won her maiden professional title at W15 Cordenons on 30 August, backed up that triumph with another five wins in Marbella including a battling 4-6 6-4 6-4 win over Russian Alina Charaeva in the final.

Zheng, who has a 12-1 win-loss record since the resumption of the Tour having also reached the quarter-finals at W15 Oeiras in mid-August, had barely proved troubled throughout her week in Spain prior to the title match, easing through her other four matches without dropping a set.

Already sitting at a career-high No. 617 in the WTA rankings, Zheng is set for a significant ranking jump of around 200 places when the latest rankings are released next Monday. 

Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Slovenian Ziva Falkner enjoyed a milestone week on home soil, collecting her first professional title at W15 Otocec.

Falkner, the junior world No. 42 who entered the tournament via a junior reserved place, defeated fellow Slovenian Tina Cvetkovic 6-0 7-6(6) in the final to win the title in just her fourth professional tournament.

Elsewhere, Beatriz Haddad-Maia won her first title in three years at W25 Montemor-O-Novo in Portugal after defeating Great Britain’s Jodie Anna Burrage.

Competing in her first tournament since 2019 Wimbledon after serving an anti-doping suspension, the 24-year-old Brazilian defeated Burrage 6-1 6-4 in the final to collect her ninth ITF title, and first since winning in Cagnes-Sur-Mer in 2017.

Federica Di Sarra won the other women’s tournament taking place on the ITF World Tennis Tour last week, with the world No. 441 collecting her sixth ITF title – and also her first since 2017 – after beating fellow Italian Camilla Rosatello in the final at W15 Trieste.