Back to best Ivanovic snaffles Linz crown

LINZ, Austria: Serbian top seed Ana Ivanovic won the $600,000 WTA event in Linz on Sunday with an impressive 6-2, 6-1 demolition of Russian second seed Vera Zvonareva.

Ivanovic, currently ranked fourth in the world after a spell as No 1, swamped her ninth-ranked rival, who at 23, is three years her senior, and never looked back after two breaks sent her romping 3-0 clear in the opening set.

She wrapped that one up at the first time of asking then bagged another break to all but end her rival's resistance at the start of the second.