By Chris Oddo | Sunday, April 19, 2015

 

Brazil's Teliana Pereira ended her nation's 28-year WTA title drought with a surprise run in Bogota.

Photo: Claro Open

A day after upsetting No. 1 seed Elina Svitolina in Bogota, Brazil’s Teliana Pereira defeated Yaroslava Shvedova in the final to win the Claro Open Colsanitas and become Brazil’s first WTA title winner since 1988.

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Pereira, 26 and ranked 130 in the world, battled back from 4-2 down in the first set to win in a tiebreaker, then cruised in the second set to a 7-6(2), 6-1 triumph.

“Playing the Medellín challenger before this was very important to me because there was a little altitude there, too, and that helped me get ready for the conditions here,” Pereira said (she won the Medellín title). “I felt very solid all week and I'm so happy to win my first WTA title here in Bogotá."

Periera has reached the semifinals or better three times in her career, twice in Bogota.

Brazil made it a clean sweep in Bogota, as Paula Cristina Goncalves and Beatriz Haddad Maia, defeated Americans Irina Falconi and Shelby Rogers in a match tie-break for the title, 6-3, 3-6, 10-6.