The Dutch Kiki Bertens today lifted a match point and completed a dream week by beating the Romanian Simona Halep, number one in the world, to celebrate the title of the Cincinnati tennis tournament. 

Bertens, 26, ranked 17th in the world, was on the verge of losing, but finally won 2-6, 7-6 (8-6) and 6-2 to win the second title of the season. , after winning in Charleston.

Halep had a match point in the tie break of the second set, but the Dutch raised it and then prevented the world number one from taking revenge for the final lost last year against the Spanish Garbiñe Muguruza. 

To win the most important tournament of his career, Bertens eliminated four players from the top ten, because before beating Halep he had overtaken the Danish Caroline Wozniacki, number two in the ranking; the Ukrainian Elina Svitolina, number seven, and the Czech Petra Kvitova, number six.

In addition, it took away from Halep the possibility of adding his second consecutive title, having won the title last week in Montreal.