American McCartney Kessler secured her third profession title Sunday, defeating Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska 6-4, 7-5 in a rain-interrupted Nottingham Open last.
Kessler, who recorded her first main-draw tour-level win on grass earlier this month at Queen’s, dominated the match from the outset and sealed the victory in 1 hour, 34 minutes.
“I am tremendous excited to have one other title. I’ve gotten to a different last, one other nice week of tennis for me,” Kessler stated. “I need to begin by congratulating Dayana on a superb week as effectively. She’s a extremely powerful competitor. We have had three actually aggressive matches, so congrats on a superb week.”
The 25-year-old American outperformed Yastremska on serve within the first set, profitable 17 of her 25 service factors in comparison with the Ukrainian’s 19 from 35 first serves.
The second set went to 3-3 earlier than Kessler fought off a spirited problem from Yastremska to shut out the victory.
Yastremska, the primary Ukrainian participant to achieve a WTA Tour last on grass in 17 years, was taking part in her second last of the 12 months however fell wanting clinching her first WTA title since 2019.
