SAINT PETERSBURG:
Daria Kasatkina
captured her second
WTA
title of the season as
Margarita Gasparyan
retired with a back injury during the second set of Sunday's final in Saint Petersburg.
Former world number 10 Kasatkina led 6-3, 2-1 in an all-Russian final when Gasparyan was forced to quit, handing her opponent a fourth career title.
Kasatkina, 23, also won last month's Phillip Island Trophy in Melbourne, her first tournament victory since her 2018 triumph in Moscow.
Gasparyan, ranked 126th and playing on a wildcard, took a medical time out during the first set but stopped after double-faulting twice and dropping serve in the third game of the second set.
Kasatkina endured a difficult 2019 and slumped to 75th last year but will climb back into the top 50 Monday after becoming the first player to win two WTA events in 2021.
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