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Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez beat top-seeded Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 7-5, 6-4 in Bastad on Saturday to win the Swedish Open for her second WTA Tour title.
The unseeded Spaniard, who won her first title in Bogota in February, rallied from a 4-1 deficit in the second set. She held serve to take a 5-4 lead, setting up the game point winner with a brilliant stop volley that was one of her biggest weapons in the final. Wozniacki managed to return the ball, but Martinez Sanchez then easily put it into the open court.
She set up the match point with another superb stop volley that Wozniacki could only return wide.
In the opening set, Martinez Sanchez earned the decisive break for a 5-4 lead when Wozniacki netted a forehand. Martinez Sanchez wasted two set points in the next game at 40-15, but finally clinched the set with a crisp volley that Wozniacki returned into the net with a tame forehand.
Wozniacki, who turned 19 Saturday, is ranked ninth in the world and has won five WTA titles - two this year at Ponte Vedra and Eastbourne.
The 54th-ranked Martinez Sanchez also beat two other seeded players on her way to the final.
The Swedish Open moved back to Bastad, where the first women's tournament was held in 1948, after five years on hard courts at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm.
The men's Swedish Open starts on Monday.
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