Romania's Simona Halep plays a backhand to Czech Republic's Karolina Pliskova during the final match of the Women's Italian Open.ROME - Top seed Simona Halep won her first Italian Open title on Monday after defending champion Karolina Pliskova retired injured while trailing 6-0, 2-1 in the final.
"In 2013 here I started to go in the top in world tennis. I really enjoyed and I realy was happy on court that I could play the semi-finals back then. Since then I have started to play really well."The Czech struggled with her serve from the outset, falling behind to a double break, handing Halep a 3-0 advantage with a double fault.
Pliskova had treatment on her lower back and upper leg before the second set, but pushed on with a break for 1-1 after half an hour.
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