WTA: WTA roundup: Milestone for 3-time winner Diana Shnaider in Budapest

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Top-seeded Diana Shnaider of Russia won her third title on a third different surface this year in defeating Aliaksandra Sasnovich 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday in Budapest.

Shnaider, of Russia, needed 95 minutes to beat Sasnovich of Belarus on the clay court. Shnaider, 20, captured her first tour title in February on the hard courts of Hua Hin, Thailand, and she won again on the grass of Bad Homburg, Germany, in June.

She became the first woman to win titles on every surface in the same year since Caroline Garcia in 2022. and the youngest player to do so since Caroline Wozniacki, then 19, in 2009.

Shnaider has risen in the world rankings in 12 months from No. 110 to a career-high No. 28, and she is projected to go higher after Sunday’s crown.

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Germany’s Ella Seidel upset seventh-seeded Nadia Podoroska of Argentina 6-4, 2-6, 6-1 in the first round in the Czech Republic.

Seidel saved 5 of 10 break-point opportunities while converting 7 of 18. Podoroska had more aces (4-2) but also more double faults (8-2).

Third-seeded Anhelina Kalinina of Ukraine worked just over three hours to outlast the host country’s Sara Bejlek 7-5, 6-7 (7), 6-2. Fifth-seeded Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria was a 7-6 (3), 6-3 winner over Renata Jamrichova of the Slovak Republic.

Other winners were Spain’s Rebeka Masarova and France’s Elsa Jacquemot.

–Field Level Media

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