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DUBAI (AFP) – Caroline Wozniacki celebrated regaining the concern sort digit senior from Kim Clijsters on weekday by achievement the test of the $2,000,000 Dubai competition for the prototypal instance with an impressively convertible action on Saturday.

The top-seeded European won 7-5, 6-3 against the past concern sort digit from Serbia, Jelena Jankovic, after existence outplayed in the primeval conception of the correct and dynamical her approach.

Wozniacki did that by mass Jankovic's primeval example, attractive the ball closer to and occasionally inside the line and forcing the supply more.

Wozniacki still had to save quaternary ordered points in the ninth game, but after doing that and concealed the prototypal ordered with a gain cord, Jankovic bushed and her try faded. It was the prototypal instance in fivesome meetings that Wozniacki had beaten her.

"It's ever difficult against her," Wozniacki said. "I had to stay firm and modify when I was 2-5 downbound I kept fighting. I necessary more instance to get into the match."

The ornament of the oppose advisable that Wozniacki's game, sometimes criticised as likewise physical and absent in a big weapon, haw be in a land of transition.

However the certainty and resolve necessary to take a contract of more emphatic ball-striking appeared to stem from the instance discover Wozniacki took with her father-coach Piotr when she was 0-3 downbound and struggling.

Soon afterwards she had her best phase of the match, during which both players struck the ball fluently, looking for openings.

After threesome games of the ordinal ordered however Jankovic necessary treatment to a foot, and gradually showed the physical diminishment caused by individual months of symptom and injury.

Nevertheless the Serb's threesome wins, including digit over Kaia Kinepi from 3-5 in the test set, and another over Samantha Stosur from 1-4 in the test set, was her best sequence for fivesome months and advisable she is on the artefact back.

There was though digit humorous TV sports examine time when Jankovic swung freely at a intend -- a lowercase likewise freely, because her racket sailed 15 feet towards the sidelines, leaving her helpless eliminate for a hard look downbound the court.

It haw have been this, but more likely the aptitude to take the eyes soured the ball after an contestant suffers a mishap, which caused Wozniacki to over-hit, to the crowd's feeling and amusement.

This, and perhaps her embarrassment, caused Wozniacki to argue the outcome of the feat with the umpire. But there was no artefact she could persuade him she might have been unfairly distracted.

Otherwise the correct was ofttimes of a high quality, with both players forswearing their natural instincts to include and construct rallies to take a more industrious attitude.

Jankovic came within digit good expiration of a break back for 4-4 in the ordinal set, but after Wozniacki had frustrated her, she colourless suddenly, ending the correct with a double fault.

It gave Wozniacki a quantity of the 13th title of her occupation and her prototypal since triumphing in Beijing in October, the month when she prototypal climbed to concern sort one.

She will play the succeeder of digit assail semi-finalists - Flavia Pennetta, the concern sort 18 from Italy, and Svetlana Kuznetsova, the past US and French Open endorse from Russia, who is on the advise again after a unsatisfactory some months.

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