Shaughnessy Wins WTA Rabat Title


Posted on May 22, 2006

American Meghann Shaughnessy won the Grand Prix SAR title Sunday, outlasting No. 8 seed Martina Sucha of Slovakia 6-2, 3-6, 6-3.

Shaughnessy is now 4-4 in career finals, winning her first tournament since Memphis in 2005.

"This was a great tournament," Shaughnessy said. "It was my first time in Morocco and I will be coming back."

Shaughnessy is 14-11 on the year after losing her first five matches of 2006.

In the Saturday doubles final, Chinese No. 1 seeds Yan/Zheng beat No. 2-seeded Americans Harkleroad/Mattek 6-1, 6-3 for their third title of the year.

Rankings
ATP - Feb 06 WTA - Feb 06
1 Novak Djokovic1 Victoria Azarenka
2 Rafael Nadal2 Petra Kvitova
3 Roger Federer3 Maria Sharapova
4 Andy Murray4 Caroline Wozniacki
5 David Ferrer5 Samantha Stosur
6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga6 Agnieszka Radwanska
7 Tomas Berdych7 Marion Bartoli
8 Mardy Fish8 Vera Zvonareva
9 Janko Tipsarevic9 Na Li
10 Juan Martin Del Potro10 Andrea Petkovic
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