Danish teenager Wozniacki lands second title

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (Reuters) - Danish teenager Caroline Wozniacki upset top seed Anna Chakvetadze 3-6 6-4 6-1 to win the New Haven Open on Saturday.

The unseeded Wozniacki wore down the Russian in one hour 53 minutes to grab her second title, three weeks after claiming her first in Stockholm.

"I really accomplished a lot these last couple of weeks," the 18-year-old told reporters. "It's been great.

"Here it's the tournament before the U.S. Open (next week) and it's a really big tournament. I have beaten some really great players."

Chakvetadze went into the match with a perfect 7-0 record in finals and began aggressively, sending a series of stinging returns deep to the baseline.

The Russian eased through the first set and looked on course for victory when she broke in the opening game of the second.

But Wozniacki suddenly improved and the mistakes began to flow from Chakvetadze.

The Dane broke in the 10th game to level the match before romping through the final set.

GRAND SLAM

Wozniacki said: "I was playing her game (in the first set). I had to make her play my game, make her do the things I wanted her to do. I tried to change and it worked."

With a top-20 ranking assured, Wozniacki goes to New York with the belief she can improve on her best grand-slam showing, a last-16 effort at this year's Australian Open.

"I'll have some confidence going into the U.S. Open," she said.

Chakvetadze said the exertions of her three-set win over Amelie Mauresmo in the semi-finals left her drained.

"I didn't recover from yesterday's match," she said. "It finished quite late, went three sets and I didn't really sleep well."

Despite her defeat, Chakvetadze will return to the top-10 when the new rankings are issued on Monday.

(Editing by Tony Jimenez)