Hungarian teenager wins tennis tournament in Mexico

18-year-old Hungarian Tímea Babos won the USD 220,000 Monterrey WTA hard court tournament in Mexico by beating Romanian Alexandra Cadantu in two straight sets, 6-4, 6-4. This victory was Babos’s first title on the WTA Tour.

In the first set, the Hungarian player broke her opponent’s service in the 5th game and maintained this advantage to win the first set. In the second, the set was tied at 4-all when Babos made a service break to serve for the match. In the last game, she played well again and won the first of her three match balls to win the tournament.

As the Hungarian news agency MTI reported, the Hungarian player produced high-level tennis throughout the final, delivering five aces and also sending a couple of unreturnable shots from her baseline.

The match lasted one hour and 22 minutes. It is the first senior title of her career at only the fourth WTA tournament she entered. In the previous week, she made it to the semifinal in Bogotá, Colombia. Before that, she only won a single WTA – at the Budapest Grand Prix last summer (see photo).

For this victory, Tímea Babos received USD 37,000 in prize money and 280 points in the world ranking where she is in position 68 now, having moved up 39 places.

The other Hungarian player at the Monterrey tournament, Gréta Arn made it to the semifinal but she lost to Cadantu.