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Rybakina beats Kostyuk to win Stuttgart Open
Kazakh fourth seed Elena Rybakina defeated Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in straight sets to win the WTA event in Stuttgart on Sunday.
2022 Wimbledon champion Rybakina beat Kostyuk 6-2, 6-2 in one hour nine minutes, ending the 21-year-old Ukrainian's giant-killing run at the tournament.
The world number four broke Kostyuk twice in the first set and twice in the second, fighting off three break points from the world number 27 to lift her eighth career title.
The title is her third of 2024, the first time she has won three WTA titles in one year.
Sunday's victory was also the 24-year-old's third title win on clay in her career.
Rybakina needed to overcome world number one Iga Swiatek in Saturday's semi-final, beating the four-time grand slam winner and shattering her 10-match winning streak at the tournament, which included capturing the last two titles.
Kostyuk also took the hard road to the final, beating top-10 opponents Zheng Qinwen, Coco Gauff and Marketa Vondrousova to reach Sunday's match.
C.Kovalenko--BTB