Halep lets win slip away as Bertens rallies for title#Bj8c

Halep lets win slip away as Bertens rallies for title MASON, Ohio -- Kiki Bertens served a 109 mph ace, flipped her racket away, fell to her knees and raised both arms. Top-ranked Simona Halep let a match point slip away during the second-set tiebreaker, and Bertens rallied for a 2-6, 7-6 (6), 6-2 victory and the Western & Southern Open title on Sunday. Playing her first hard-court final, the Dutch clay-court specialist ended Haleps streak of nine straight wins, including the title at Montreal a week earlier. During the week in Cincinnati, Halep had one match suspended overnight by rain and wound up playing twice in one day to reach the semifinals. When that slipped away, she never recovered, playing her worst in the final set:13 unforced errors that gave Bertens a chance to pull away.