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Fellow American Serena Williams was the last
player to win Miami and Charleston in the same year in 2013, and
Williams did the same in 2008.
The 13-match tour-level win streak is Collins' career best,
supplanting her 12-match run in 2021 which included victories in
Palermo, Italy, and San Jose, Calif.
Collins started February at No. 71 in the world rankings and is
projected for the top 15 on Monday. The 2022 Australian Open
runner-up outplayed No. 11 Kasatkina in winners (37-10), won
95.2 percent (20 of 21) of first serve points and saved both
break points she faced.
Copa Colsanitas
Home-country favorite Camila Osorio completed an impressive run,
defeating No. 1 seed Marie Bouzkova of the Czech Republic 6-3,
7-6 (5) before a partisan crowd to win her second title in
Bogota.
Osorio, who won her first WTA Tour crown in Bogota in 2021, was
seeded sixth, ranked No. 85 in the world and had not won
consecutive matches this season. The Colombian lost just one set
en route to the championship.
Along the way, Osorio ended two-time defending champion and
second-seeded Tatjana Maria's 14-match winning streak in Bogota
in the quarterfinals.
Osorio converted 50 percent (4 of 8) of her break-point
opportunities, to 33.3 percent (3 of 9)) for Bouzkova. She also
had a 26-16 edge in winners.
--Field Level Media
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