Good result for Marina Erakovic as she is the first Kiwi to win a WTA tournament since Belinda Cordwell in 1989.
Ranked world no.71, Marina had a good start of the final to win the first set 6-1 after 27 minutes. On the other side of he net Lisiki was really battling to withdraw just at the beginning of the second set.
From Lisicki
After retiring Sabine LIsicki offered her apologies to the fans to say “I’m sorry that I wasn’t able to finish the match,” she said. “I was sick the last few days… I just couldn’t do better today. Marina played a great match.”
From Erakovic
“This is my first title and unfortunately it did go like this, but Sabine, congratulations. I hope we play a lot more finals in the future,” Erakovic said. “I am really happy, a lot of work and effort has gone into this. I’d like to thank my family and “I am sad that this event is going but fingers crossed it will come back.
About her coach
“I would like to thank my coach Chris, we have been together for a few years now and we do a really good job.We have a good time and we made a bet that if we win a WTA title we are going to jump out of a plane, so yay!”
