Juan Martin del Potro said that he was battling illness after he suffered a shock defeat in the China Open final on Sunday, losing 6-4, 6-4 to unseeded Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s final, world number two Caroline Wozniacki defeated Latvia\u2019s Anastasija Sevastova 6-3, 6-3 for her 30th WTA singles title.<\/p>\n
Argentine top seed Del Potro was clearly far from his best and has been fighting flu or a cold for several days in the Chinese capital.<\/p>\n
The world number four said that he did his best in difficult circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did everything that I can to be better for the final, it wasn\u2019t enough time to feel 100 percent,\u201d the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you can see, my game today wasn\u2019t as good as it was in the last matches in the tournament. I had some problem the last three days and it affected a little bit my game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Del Potro, who reached last month\u2019s US Open final and is enjoying one of the best seasons of his injury-interrupted career, is now in a race to be better for this week\u2019s Shanghai Masters.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t able to play with that fire that I have in all my matches,\u201d Del Potro added, saying however that 34th-ranked Basilashvili \u201cplayed unbelievable\u201d.<\/p>\n
It is only the second title of 26-year-old Basilashvili\u2019s career, having won his maiden ATP title in Hamburg in July.<\/p>\n
There was to be no surprise in the women\u2019s decider.<\/p>\n
Denmark\u2019s Wozniacki was impressive all week, never dropping a set and rarely looking troubled, sealing her spot in the WTA Finals Singapore in the process.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old, who won her maiden Grand Slam at the Australian Open at the start of this year, was imperious against the unseeded Sevastova.<\/p>\n
It is her second China Open crown — she also won it in 2010 and 30th overall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just happy to have reached 30 today, I\u2019m going to enjoy that,\u201d said Wozniacki, a former number one.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a little kid I had a dream of becoming a professional tennis player, becoming number one in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen after number one in the world, I wanted to win a Slam, then I wanted to lift trophies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving done everything, all of that, it\u2019s pretty amazing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I had a dream of that, but I don\u2019t know how realistic I really believed that was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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