Both Rezai and Hradecka were unseeded, and both only dropped one set each en route to the final.

The 75th-ranked Rezai rallied from 5-3 down in the opening set and even saved two set points down 6-5 to push it to a tiebreak, where she prevailed easily, 7-2. Rezai’s serve was broken right away at the beginning of the second set, but since then she won six consecutive games to win her first title in her third singles final.

The 22-year-old Rezai has become the first French player to win the singles title in Strasbourg, as well as the lowest ranked player to win the tournament. (source: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, photo: Getty Images via Yahoo)

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Top seed Anabel Medina Garrigues of Spain, who was aiming for her fourth Strasbourg title and third consecutive there, pulled out from the claycourt event due to a lower back injury.

Medina Garrigues lost the first set 6-4 to Kristina Barrois of Germany, and then withdrew from that second-round match. (photo via Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

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Sixth-seeded Medina Garrigues faced eight break points in the first set, and fifth-seeded Srebotnik broke her twice to take early control. In the second set, both players lost serve three times, but Medina Garrigues was better in the tiebreaker. The Spaniard then absolutely dominated in the deciding set.

Medina Garrigues has eight career titles. The one she won on Saturday in Strasbourg is her first since winning that same tournament last year. (source: ESPN, photo via Yahoo)

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Former world No.4 Jelena Dokic, currently ranked 318th, which is by the way good, won two back-to-back titles at challengers – Florence and Caserta – but today her run has ended. Dokic, who received a wildcard for the Tier III tournament in Strasbourg, lost in the first round. World No.71 Timea Bacsinszky of Switzerland defeated her 6-4 6-2. (image via Great Tennis Photos)

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It's a pity, Golovin skipped Roland Garros last year too, the reason was an ankle injury. This year, she has withdrawn, presumably, because of a failure to recover completely from surgery — she had to remove a cyst from her hip. Well, at least Tati has a boyfriend to lick her wounds.

At this week’s Qatar Telecom German Open, Golovin lost in the first round, to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark. The next tournament the Frenchwoman should be playing is the International Women's Open in Eastbourne. (via Women Who Serve, photo: Getty Images)

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Elena, the 13th-ranked player in the world, won the event when France's Aravane Rezai withdrew because of the knee injury she sustained in her semifinal match against Maria Sharapova. Dementieva lead 7-6 (7-5) 3-0 when Rezai retired. This is the Russian's first singles title in 2007, and she hopes that she will continue to play well next week at Roland Garros where she's seeded 13th.

At the Strasbourg International, the top seed Amelie Mauresmo was upset by the sixth seed Anabel Medina Garrigues 6-4 4-6 6-4. This is Garrigues' seveth career title, and the first tournament win of the year. World No. 5 Mauresmo had been looking for a confidence boost ahead of Roland Garros, her home Grand Slam at which she has been unsuccessful so far — she has never made it past the last eight.

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