Halep eases past Brady into Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Final

Top seed Simona Halep has eased into her first final of the year at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships defeating Jennifer Brady in a 6-2, 6-0 win in the semi-finals.

Halep will now take on Elena Rybakina who defeated Petra Martic earlier today in a complete polar opposite to this match with the Kazakh ace being a break down in both sets and forcing tiebreaks in both which she won.

For the Wimbledon champion, she ended the run of Brady who was exceptional this week in Dubai; despite not quite fulfilling that in the semi-finals.

Halep won over 3/4 of points on her first serve; she only faced two break points in the match at all. The difference though came on the unforced errors column with Brady who had beaten three top 20 players in a row to get to this point; hitting 14 which was twice her winners total.

This was compared to the Romanian ace who hit 16 winners to eight unforced errors; which ultimately proved the difference on the day.

The final though might not be as simple a task for the World Number Two though with Rybakina a player firmly on the rise and reaching every non Grand Slam final she has played in this year, it should be an interesting conclusion to a brilliant week of tennis in Dubai.

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