Halep Wins Seventh & Biggest WTA Title

    She made major strides in the last seven months of the 2013 season and in Australia this year, but this might just be the biggest one - Simona Halep captured the biggest WTA title of her career on Sunday, beating Angelique Kerber in straight sets to win the Qatar Total Open.

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The No.7-seeded Halep broke at love in the very first game of the match and never really looked back, eventually breaking serve four times - and holding all eight of her service games - en route to a comprehensive 62 63 victory against the No.6-seeded Kerber. The match lasted just 66 minutes.

Halep's win over Kerber was her third Top 10 win of the week, having also beaten Sara Errani and Agnieszka Radwanska the last two rounds, and it's the first time she has beaten three Top 10 players at the same tournament. She is also on a six-match winning streak against Top 10 players now.

Also, she comes away with the seventh and biggest WTA title of her career - among her first six WTA titles were two at the Premier level, but neither of those tournaments offered more than an $800,000 total prize purse - the Qatar Total Open in Doha offered a whopping $2,440,070 prize purse.

There's more - Halep will now rise from No.10 to No.9 on the rankings, one step closer to becoming the highest-ranked Romanian in WTA history - she's currently third on the list behind Irina Spirlea (who made it as high as No.7 in the world) and Virginia Ruzici (who made it as high as No.8).

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