Top seed Chin-Wei Chan of Chinese Taipei lived up to her reputation to clinch the title with a fluent 6-2, 6-3 triumph over second seed Montinee Tangphong of Thailand, in the US$10,000 ITF Women's Tennis Tournament, sponsored by Rajesh Kumar Wadhawan Charitable Trust, at the Practennis School of Tennis, in Mumbai on Saturday.
In a battle between baseliners, Chan, ranked 282 in the Women's Tennis Association list, capped a week of brilliant tennis to demolish her opponent in a final that lasted 1 hr, 17 minutes.
In the process, Chan completed a double crown after winning the doubles final on Friday.
Chan came up with a controlled game that included brilliant ground strokes and passing winners, to dominate throughout and began in fine fashion when she took the opening set with breaks in the fourth and eighth games.
Tangphong, 361 in the WTA rankings, made a brief comeback bid in the second set but her error prone game didn't help her cause.
Though the Thai, a regular in the ITF circuit in Mumbai and is familiar with the conditions here, was broken early in the second game of the second set, she came back into the contest to break Chan in the fifth game and held serve in the sixth for 3-3.
But Chan, who has won a title back home in 2003, broke Tangphong in the crucial eighth game to seal the game and match.
Chan earned US$1,568 and six points for her effort, while Tangphong received US$980 and four points.
Result: Singles (Final): Chi-Wei Chan (Tpe) bt Montinee Tangphong (Thai) 6-2, 6-3.
