Quevedo comes back in Sao Paulo to claim first WTA title in debut season

[p]In a match between two women playing their first tour final, the 20-year-old [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/quevedo-kaitlin/Ovyv04To/"]Quevedo[/a], ranked 90th in the world, started slowly.[/p][p]After the final was pushed back to Monday due to heavy rain earlier in the hard-court tournament, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/podoroska-nadia/OKBlwX8r/"]Podoroska[/a], a 29-year-old ranked 200th in the world, broke her American-born opponent twice to lead 3-0 in the first set.[/p][embed guid="91af2337-ebe6-4036-a2d2-89e92cdcd888" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paaBBGyLF1A&pp=0gcJCSAMAYcqIYzv" social-type="youtube" /][p]Quevedo, who made her tour debut in Auckland in January, broke back in the fourth game but Podoroska stayed in control to take the set.[/p][p]The players exchanged breaks at the start of the second set before Quevedo broke in the 10th game.[/p][p]That swung momentum her way as she won the first five games of the third set; Podoroska briefly fought back before [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/podoroska-n-OKBlwX8r/quevedo-k-Ovyv04To/?mid=pAxPA6XH"]Quevedo clinched victory on her second championship point.[/a][/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="2eef31c1-725a-4bf2-a775-e42c379dbcb8" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="38aff953-e03b-4b40-8875-c098269a6f66" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/wta-singles/sao-paulo/"]Catch up on the tournament in Sao Paulo here![/a][/b][/p]