Elise Mertens beat the unseeded Aryna Sabalenka to claim the Samsung Open in Switzerland, to take her third career WTA title.
The second-seeded Belgian clinched the 7-5 6-2 victory on her first match point when the 19-year-old Sabalenka from Belarus netted a two-handed, backhand approach shot.
Mertens won her first clay-court event after winning the past two editions of the Hobart International on hard courts in Australia.
Sunday was a relatively simple end to the rain-hit tournament for the 22-year-old Mertens after her long Saturday shift of three-set victories in her quarter-final and semi-final.
Sabalenka has lost both her WTA finals.
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