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Wozniacki caps wonderful week with Dubai glory

ESPN staff
February 20, 2011
Caroline Wozniacki clinched her 13th WTA Tour title in Dubai © Getty Images
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Caroline Wozniacki increasingly looks like the real deal as the WTA Tour's No. 1, clinching her first title of the year at the Dubai Duty Free Championships.

The Danish youngster, who will be officially restored to the pinnacle of the women's game on Monday, appeared to be in a different class to Svetlana Kuznetsova on Sunday, triumphing 6-1 6-3 in 75 minutes.

Wozniacki was contesting her first final of the year in Dubai, having previously fallen marginally short at the semi-final stage of the Australian Open. Any suggestion of nerves was immediately dismissed in a confident display by the 20-year-old, who has now lifted 13 Tour titles.

Critics of Wozniacki point to the fact that she is yet to win a grand slam, but on Sunday's performance it is surely only a matter of time before that statistic changes. The first set belonged to the No. 1 seed, who allowed Kuznetsova just five points on serve as the Russian was broken on three occasions.

The second set was an almost carbon copy of the first, with Wozniacki this time converting four break chances, allowing Kuznetsova a mere 32 per cent of points on first serve in the entire contest en route to victory.

In the XIX Copa final in Bogota, Lourdes Dominguez Lino of Spain claimed a 2-6 6-3 6-2 triumph over France's Mathilde Johansson.

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