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Dinara Safina of Russia serves during her Madrid Open final win over Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. Photograph: Juan Manuel Serrano/AP
Dinara Safina of Russia serves during her Madrid Open final win over Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. Photograph: Juan Manuel Serrano/AP

Dinara Safina defeats Caroline Wozniacki to win Madrid Open

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Dinara Safina adds Madrid Open to last week's Italian Open
World No1 too strong for Danish teenager, winning 6-2, 6-4

The World No1 Dinara Safina has won the Madrid Open with a 6–2, 6–4 victory over Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki, to take her second clay-court title in eight days. Safina defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova in the final of last week's Italian Open.

Wozniacki, seeded ninth, missed a chance to break serve in the second game and Safina found her range in the sunshine in the new Magic Box Stadium to open a 5–1 lead before serving out the set. The Dane committed far too many unforced errors and Safina broke again at the start of the second set.

Wozniacki tried to mix up her game with some looping shots to the baseline and had chances to break in the eighth game but Safina held firm. She missed one championship point on the Dane's serve but made no mistake on her second when serving for the match to clinch an 11th career title.

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