World quantity two Iga Swiatek claimed her fifth title of the yr with victory over Liudmila Samsonova within the China Open closing.
The Pole added to her titles in Doha, Stuttgart, Roland Garros and Warsaw with a 6-2 6-2 victory in Beijing.
Swiatek, 22, didn’t face a break level in both set as Russia’s world quantity 22 Samsonova struggled to manage.
She shortly wrapped up victory in simply 69 minutes for her sixteenth profession title.
Swiatek, who ended US Open champion Coco Gauff’s 16-match profitable streak within the semi-finals, was handed the primary break of the match within the sixth recreation when Samsonova produced a double fault.
She then went on to wrap up the opening set with out committing a single unforced error.
Swiatek’s very good serve helped her go 4-1 up within the second set earlier than sealing the success as Samsonova made one other error on the web.
Regardless of the defeat, Samsonova’s week, throughout which she beat fifth seed Elena Rybakina, twelfth seed Petra Kvitova and thirteenth seed Jelena Ostapenko, means she’s going to return to the world’s prime 20.
