Dinara Safina won the sixth title in a professional career

Russian tennis player Dinara Safina won her sixth title in a professional career and the first this season.

On Sunday, in the final of the Qatar Telecom German Open-2008 category tournament in Berlin, 22-year-old native of Moscow, sown by the 13th, met her compatriot Elena Dementieva. Dinara won three sets in 2 hours 3 minutes - 3/6, 6/2, 6/2.

This is the third consecutive victory by Safina, won over Dementieva on the ground. The general account in this Russian confrontation was 3-2 in favor of Dinara, Gotennis notes. The first full-time meeting between the rivals took place in 2003 just at the tournament in the capital of Germany: then in the match of the first circle with a score of 6: 2, 2: 6, 0: 1 Dementiev, due to injury, the legs refused to continue the struggle.

The current success will allow Safina, for the first time in her career, he won the category of I, to improve his position in the new version of the WTA rating, which saw the light on Monday. From the 17th place, the Russian woman will move to the 14th.

The rating is still headed by the Belgian, Justine Enen, but the strongest Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova became the second racket of the world. In the new version of the rating, Maria shifted from the second position a Serk Anun Ivanovich, who could not protect the glasses earned a year ago in Berlin. And here is another of our compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova yielded to the 4th line of another Serbian athlete Elena Yankovich.