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Yanina Wickmayer defeated Ekaterina Makarova 7-5, 6-2 to win Estoril Open, her first WTA Tour title.

"I'm really happy to have won my first Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title. I've worked hard for it. I don't really have many words to describe the feeling - I'm nearly speechless!" Wickmayer said. "I've been playing well for a few weeks now. I didn't have great results but I've been practicing really well. I felt this coming, not that I was going to win a title, but that I was playing well. I beat some good players this week, two or three seeded players, so I'm very happy."

Makarova was playing her first singles final on the Tour just a week ago in Fès, Morocco, where she lost to Anabel Medina Garrigues. Despite the losses she comes away from the last two tournaments with new confidence.

"It was really a good tournament for me. I wanted to win today because I lost last week in the final too. Maybe I was a bit nervous today, but I'm happy to have made the final here at the Estoril Open," Makarova said. "Yanina is a really good player. At the start she missed a bit, but then she played without mistakes and maybe I was waiting for her to make them. She was the better player today."

Raquel Kops-Jones and Abigail Spears defeated Sharon Fichman and Katalin Marosi 26 63 105 to win their first doubles title as a team.

"We're pretty happy that we came away with that win. It was an up and down match, so we were very happy to pull that one out," Spears said afterwards. "We've actually played four match tie-breaks in a row this week, so we felt confident once we managed to take the match into the tie-break today."

"We've been playing together for the last couple of years, and while we've won smaller tournaments together, we've never won a Sony Ericsson WTA Tour title as a team before," Kops-Jones said. "Our game styles match up really well. We like coming to the net a lot. The more we play together the better we can read each other's games. We're also good friends, which helps!"

(photo/FRANCISCO LEONG/AFP/Getty Images)