Viktoriya Tomova triumphed at the WTA 125 Chicago Women’s Open

Bulgarian tennis player Viktoriya Tomova won her first WTA 125 title after triumphing at the WTA 125 Chicago Women’s Open with a prize pool of 115,000 USD. The Bulgarian prevailed in the final over Claire Liu (USA) by 2-0 (6:1, 6:4) in 1:17 hours of play.

Viktoriya Tomova started strong and gave only a game to her opponent in the first set. In the second, she also held the initiative and led 5:2, having a match point, which she missed and mad e a lot of mistakes in the next two games to allow her opponent to equalize the break, but made another break at 5:4 and won the victory.

This is the most significant trophy in the career of Viktoriya Tomova and second for her this year after her success at the $80,000 W80 Zaragoza (Spain). She has a total of 18 professional tennis titles.

Following the success, she climbed to world’s No 82.