{"id":1679,"date":"2011-12-24T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2011-12-24T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:44:29","slug":"celine-downs-anna-for-itf-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=1679","title":{"rendered":"Celine downs Anna for ITF title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pune: <\/strong>Pune: In what turned out to be a battle of nerves and  fitness, French girl Celine Cattaneo outlasted Ukraine\u2019s Anna Shkudun to  win the singles title at the NECC-ITF $25,000 ITF women\u2019s event at the  Deccan Gymkhana on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p> In a final lasting just under two-and-half hours, sixth seed Cattaneo  came back from being a set down to win 2-6, 7-5, 6-3 to win her first  $25,000 title of the year. Cattaneo, 29, got 50 ranking points for her  effort, as well as $2,900.<\/p>\n<p> In a well contested match where long rallies was a regular feature,  Shukudun started from where she had left of in her 1-6, 6-0, 6-0 win  over Melis Sezer in the semi-final on Friday.<\/p>\n<p> The Ukrainian broke Cattaneo in the first and the third game to race to a  4-0 lead. The French girl did manage to hold her serve after that, but  Shkudun just had too much firepower from her backhand side to clinch the  set 6-2 in less than half hour.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I know I lose the first set and then win the match. I don\u2019t know why  (laughs). But I fight on court,&#8221; Cattaneo said after the match. &#8220;I won a  title in Delhi, and now here. This country is special for me, I love  it,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It was a very tough match, and a tough tournament overall for me. I  like this city, India, and hopefully, next year I will be the winner  here,&#8221; Shkudun said.<\/p>\n<p> Cattaneo changed her strategy at the start of the second set, started to  play serve and volley, and came on to the net on every opportunity on  her opponent\u2019s serve as well. The move paid off immediately, as she  broke Shkudun in the second game.<\/p>\n<p> Cattaneo maintained the one break advantage to lead 5-2, before she  failed to hold on to her serve while serving for the set at 5-3. Shkudun  struggled a bit serving at 4-5, but after four deuces and a game  lasting nearly 15 minutes, the 16-year-old held her serve to make it  5-5. She couldn\u2019t repeat that act in her next service game though.  Serving at 5-6, she served a double-fault, and Cattaneo played chip and  charge successfully on a couple of points to get the decisive break and  level the scores at one set all.<\/p>\n<p> Shkudun, broken mentally, lost her serve again in the second game of the  decider, and took a medical time out trailing 0-3. It didn\u2019t change  things much for the Ukrainian, as she was broken again in the fourth.  Cattaneo dropped her serve once, at 4-0, but was quick to bounce back,  by two of the next four games, and seal the title when Shkudun\u2019s  attempted passing shot couldn\u2019t cross the net.<\/p>\n<p> RESULTSSingles, Final: 6-Celine Cattaneo (Fra) bt 8-Anna Shkudun (Ukr) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pune: <\/strong>Pune: In what turned out to be a battle of nerves and  fitness, French girl Celine Cattaneo outlasted Ukraine\u2019s Anna Shkudun to  win the singles title at the NECC-ITF $25,000 ITF women\u2019s event at the  Deccan Gymkhana on Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-tennis-tennis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celine downs Anna for ITF title - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; 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