Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina picked up her second title of the year as she outclassed Karolina Muchova 7-5, 6-1 to win the WTA Stuttgart indoor clay-court tournament on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Top seed Rybakina<\/a>, 26, snatched a tight opening set with two breaks against her seventh-seeded Czech opponent after 53 minutes on court in Germany.<\/p>\n The Kazakh never looked back in the second set rushing to a 5-0 lead as Muchova<\/a> struggled with her serve, sealing victory and the 13th title of her career after 1hr 18 min.<\/p>\n Rybakina, who finished runner-up at Indian Wells last month, regained the title she won two years ago and drives off with a second Porsche sports car – the coveted prize awarded to the champion in Stuttgart.<\/p>\n Muchova had lead Rybakina 2-1 in previous meetings heading into the title match having won their most recent clash on hard court in Brisbane in January.<\/p>\n Rybakina had a relatively smooth run this week dropping only one set and dispatching her toughest opponent world number six Mirra Andreeva<\/a> by the same score on Saturday.<\/p>\n Muchova, the 2023 Roland Garros runner-up, was playing the first 500-level final of her career.<\/p>\n The 29-year-old had eliminated French Open champion Coco Gauff<\/a> in three sets in the quarter-finals but she was no match for two-time Grand Slam winner Rybakina.<\/p>\n Rybakina dominated the early part of the first set but the former Wimbledon champion had to wait until her third set point on Muchova’s serve, to clinch it.<\/p>\n She then cruised to the line, winning seven games in a row between the end of the first and the second set.<\/p>\n