MARBELLA, Spain (AP)—Second-seeded Flavia Pennetta has beaten Carla Suarez Navarro 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 to win the Andalucia Open.
The 16th-ranked Italian player served up six aces and broke her Spanish opponent seven times on the outdoor clay to take her first title of the season in just over two hours Sunday.
Suarez Navarro took advantage of Pennetta’s six double-faults to score four breaks of her own, but the eighth-seeded player failed to win the final for the second straight year.