Begu who reached two finals at Marbella and Budapest in 2011 , scored a convincing 6-4,6-4 in a match lasting 1hour and 20 minutes to win the top prize of $37,000 and importantly 280 WTA points.

In the first set Begu played Intelligent tennis to break a tired looking Vekic in the 7th game, Begu served 4 aces in the first set . In the second set Begu broke Vekic in the very first game and held her serves to race to a 4-2 lead, but Vekic brought out her last reserves in the 8th game after being down 40-15 to hit some fluent cross court winners and level scores at 4-4.

The seasoned Begu broke immediately in the 9th game mixing speed and length to break the Croat qualifier and go up 5-4, Begu served intelligently to hold the 10th game and raised her hands and let out a huge cry to herald the new winner of the event.

"It feels great to win a title , I’ll take back sweet memories from Tashkent," said Begu . "I’m glad I made a decision to play the event at the last moment , and will surely comeback to defend my title", she added.

"My service was what got me through, said Begu who had a high 74% first serves going for her. Donna played very well and I was happy to break her in both sets", said Begu .

Answering question about being one of the youngest player on the tour to do well in the last 5 years, Vekic said: "New generations of players will keep coming all the time, and someone younger will keep coming on the scene frequently in the coming years."

Vekic got US$19,000 her highest prize money purse till date and 200 points which will propel her into the top 135 ranking bracket.

The prizes were given away at the hands of the Mayor of Tashkent Rakhmonbek Usmanov, and the president of the National Olympic committee Malik Babaev, the minster of Sports and Culture Tursunali Kuziev, Tournament Director S Uthrapathy and WTA Supervisor Martina Lutkova were present on the occasion.

Paula Kania of Poland and Polina Pekhova of Belarus lifted the first ever doubles career crown winning the title at the 14th edition of the Tashkent Open.

In the finals the Kania- Pekhova pair which was the last pair to make it to the doubles draw won against the pair of Anna Chakvetadze of Russia and Vesna Dolonc of Serbia with the scores reading 6-1 with Chakvetadze / Dolonc team retiring due to an injury to Chakvetadze.

The winners got US$11,000 and 280 points for their effort.