Haddad Maia captured the title in Seoul seven years after making the final in her tournament ... but the World No.13 wove her web of intelligent baseline tennis to keep the Brazilian on her heels.
In her first visit to South Korea, the Hana Bank Korea Open's top seed crammed in a lot of off-court activities before her tournament got underway on Thursday.
Haddad Maia had previously been a Seoul runner-up to Jelena Ostapenko in 2017. "I was trying to think only in the present, point by point," Haddad Maia said at the end of Saturday. "I think I ...