Brazilian tennis player Beatriz Haddad Maia is the new champion of the grass tennis tournament WTA 250 Rothesay Classic Birmingham. In the final, the 26-year-old Beatriz Haddad Maia led by 5:4 versus Shuai Zhang when the Chinese player gave up due to injury.
This is the second consecutive title for the Brazilian, who won the tournament in Nottingham a week ago. So she already has ten consecutive victories on the grass, and more surprisingly, before her two trophies in a week, Beatriz Haddad Maia had never won a WTA tournament.
The prize pool for WTA 250 Rothesay Classic Birmingham tournament is just over 250,000 USD.
On her road to the title in Birmingham, the Brazilian player defeated Petra Kvitova, Magdalena Frech, Camila Giorgi, and Simona Halep.
