Riske wins second career WTA title  

Alison Riske captured the second WTA title of her career Sunday, upsetting top-seed and home-country favorite Kiki Bertens, 0-6, 7-6, 7-5, in the final of the Libéma Open in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

Riske saved five match points in the second set and withstood 14 aces from the top-seeded Dutchwoman in the match before going on to win the championship in two hours, 19 minutes. She won her first WTA title five years ago at 2014 Tianjin.

"I'm just really proud of myself. I looked at the clock, and it was 6-0, 1-0 at 32 minutes in, and I thought, 'I can't possibly be bageled in a final,'" Riske told wtatennis.com following her win.

"I had faith that things would turn around at some point; I just wasn't sure when. I thought maybe it was too late, even when I broke back to make it 4-3, but I stayed in there and I fought for every point."

Riske, who moved up 12 ranking spots to No. 49 with the win, defeated Karolina Muchova, Polona Hercog, Ekaterina Alexandrova and Veronika Kudermetova before defeating Bertens in the final.

Her semifinal match against Kudermetova was a thriller, with the American pulling out a 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5) win over the Russian after coming back from a break down in the final set twice and winning the last five points of the third-set tiebreak.

A native of Pittsburgh, Riske has now compiled a 10-match winning streak. The week prior to 's-Hertogenbosch, she captured the title at the ITF event in Surbiton, Great Britain.