Tennis: Wozniacki claims maiden title in Stockholm



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STOCKHOLM, August 3, 2008 (AFP) - Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki took her first ever WTA title on Sunday when she clobbered Russian Vera Dushevina in the final of the 145,000-dollar Stockholm Open.

The 18-year-old Dane, seeded fourth, completely dominated the game, winning through 6-0, 6-2, after earlier ousting top seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the semi-final.

'Winning in Stockholm is completely perfect. I feel at home and the spectators were rooting for me,' Wozniacki told Danish news agency Ritzau.

Wozniacki reached her first ever international final when she earlier beat Radwanska 6-4, 6-1 in a semi-final delayed from Saturday because of rain.

In the other semi-final of the day, unseeded Dushevina easily beat Slovenia's Katarina Srebotnik, seeded third, 6-1, 6-2.

It was the second win in a week for Wozniacki over Dushevina after the Dane beat the Russian 6-0, 6-1 in last week's quarter-final in Portoroz, Slovenia.



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