​Olena Rybakina won her seventh career title after defeating Daria Kasatkina in the WTA 500 final in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.

Olena Rybakina, WTA Abu Dhabi champion – Victory with Daria Kasatkina

Top seed Rybakinia from the Arab Emirates needed 70 minutes to win 6-1, 6-4.

Kasatkina (WTA 14, seed 7), who criticized the WTA for the very busy schedule of the players, made 9 double faults in this match.

Know:

• Thanks to the success in Abu Dhabi, Olena will be on the 4th place in the ranking, which will be published on Monday by the WTA (jump by one position).

• Rybakina won 6 more competitions: Bucharest (2019), Hobart (2020), Wimbledon (2022), Indian Wells, Rome (2023) and Brisbane (2024). He also has 9 lost finals on his account.

• Kasatkina also has 6 titles: Charleston (2017), Moscow (2018), St. Petersburg, Phillip Island Trophy (2021), Granby and San Jose (2022). And the Russian reached 9 lost finals.

• Daria Kasatkina will play in the first round of Doha (WTA 1000) with Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (WTA 34), and Olena Rybakina (favorite 3) has a “date”.

The Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open was held from February 5 to 11 on hard, was part of the WTA 500 category and offered a total prize pool of $922,573. The last champion was Belinda Bencic (2023).