Resilient Elena Baltacha wins Michigan title

The 26-year-old Scot dropped the first set – and her first in the $100,000 tournament – 7-5 to the Czech Republic's Lucie Hradecka but then rallied to win the next two sets 6-2, 6-3.

Baltacha had earlier won her semi-final tie 6-3, 6-1 against Poland's Domachowska – a quarter-final victor over Briton Anne Keothavong. Keothavong's elimination came in her first tour event after coming back from more than six months out injured.

Elsewhere, Robin Soderling secured the ABN Amro World Tennis Tournament title in Rotterdam after Mikhail Youzhny was forced to retire hurt. The 2009 French Open finalist, who had yet to get beyond the first round in a tournament this year, took the first set 6-4 as he won all three of the break-points he created.

The Swede then moved into a 2-0 lead in the second set only for his Russian opponent, who had knocked top seed Novak Djokovic out in the semi-finals, to retire due to a wrist injury.

In Thailand, Russia's Vera Zvonareva got the better of local hope Tamarine Tanasugarn, claiming a 6-4, 6-4 final win to complete a successful defence of her Pattaya Open title. Zvonereva established a 3-0 lead in the first set, but Tanasugarn fought back to ensure it was a tense encounter in front of a vocal crowd.

At the Open GDF Suez in Paris, top seed Elena Dementieva fought back from a set down to claim the title with a hard-fought 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 6-4 victory over Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic yesterday.