Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain won her fourth career title on Sunday after beating Austrian wild card Patricia Mayr-Archleitner 6-0, 7-5 to win the Gastein Ladies 2011 tournament.
The 54th-ranked Spaniard is now 4-1 in finals. All her title victories have been on clay.
“It’s a really good step for me to play a lot of matches in the same week and build my confidence,” Martinez Sanchez said in a post match interview.
Mayr-Archleitner, ranked 109th in the world, reached her first career WTA final after beating 8th-seeded Ksenia Pervak of Russia. She’s expected to return to the top 100 when rankings are updated on Monday.
