Elina Svitolina underlined her status as a top favourite for the French Open by sweeping Simona Halep aside 6-0, 6-4 to successfully defend her Rome Masters crown yesterday
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina with the Rome Masters trophy. Pic/AFP
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Elina Svitolina underlined her status as a top favourite for the French Open by sweeping Simona Halep aside 6-0, 6-4 to successfully defend her Rome Masters crown yesterday.
Simona Halep
In a repeat of last year's final, Ukrainian Svitolina, seeded fourth, was up against Halep a day after the Romanian top seed had ousted Russian Maria Sharapova. But Halep's hopes of overturning last year's defeat to Svitolina, 23, quickly evaporated in a completely one-sided encounter. Svitolina has now successfully defended three tournament titles in her career and has won her last eight finals.
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