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 | Ivanovic gave his title for his birthday, back in the Top 207-11-2010 |
Serb Ana Ivanovic won the tournament in Bali after a win in the finals 6-2, 7-6 (5) over Russian Alisa Kleybanova and will return the top 20 in world rankings.
Former world number one won the second title of the year after that in Linz three weeks ago and will return the top 20 women's rankings.
The first set was taken relatively easily by Ivanovic, unlike the second, when both tennis players exchanged early breaks, and ultimately had to determine the winner of the tiebreaker.
There Kleybanova make a double error in 3:3 and it gave Ivanovic advantage which he needed to win.
This was her fourth win over Kleybanova in seven games between the two.
Kleybanova does it still could leave Bali with the thought had his best season in his career - titles in Kuala Lumpur and Seoul and the final in Bali.