Daria Kasatkina fought previous her good pal Mirra Andreeva to win the Ningbo Open title in China.
Russian fifth seed Kasatkina beat her teenage compatriot 6-0 4-6 6-4 in a scrappy encounter.
Andreeva broke down in tears after the match, having squandered a 3-0 lead within the closing set.
Nevertheless, she was shortly comforted by Kasatkina, earlier than joking: “I actually tried to not cry as a result of I knew the images can be ugly however I simply could not assist myself, I am sorry guys.”
World quantity 11 Kasatkina cruising after making simply two unforced errors in a dominant opening set.
Andreeva, 17, produced a stirring comeback and appeared in management after successful the primary three video games of the deciding set.
However Kasatkina capitalised on a sequence of unforced errors, successful 5 video games in a row earlier than serving out victory.
Andreeva, who reached the semi-finals of the French Open this yr and claimed doubles silver on the Olympic Video games in Paris, had been bidding for a second profession singles title.
Kasatkina, in the meantime, had misplaced 4 singles finals this yr – with Andreeva jokingly congratulating her for “lastly closing one out”.
“Thanks for reminding me that I misplaced so many finals this yr,” Kasatkina stated afterwards.
And she or he added: “Congratulations on the ultimate, I noticed you crying however you’re going to make loads of them. I hope we’ll share some extra of them sooner or later.”
It’s a second title of the yr for Kasatkina after successful Eastbourne in June and the eighth singles triumph of her profession.
On the Nordic Open in Stockholm, American Tommy Paul gained his third males’s singles title of the season and second on the Swedish occasion, following up his 2021 win with a 6-4 6-3 victory over Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov.
Within the males’s doubles, Nice Britain’s Henry Patten claimed a fourth title of the season in his first yr with new companion Harri Heliovaara, of Finland.
The highest seeds noticed off Czech pair Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl 7-5 6-3 in Sunday’s closing.
Sonay Kartal was handed victory in an all-British closing on the W100 ITF occasion in Shrewsbury after her opponent Heather Watson retired injured whereas trailing 7-5 4-1.
Kartal, 22, will transfer again into the world’s high 100, to a profession excessive of 91, when the newest WTA rankings are confirmed on Monday.
She made it 29 wins from her final 32 singles matches, a run that included a first WTA title of her career in Tunisia in September.