{blackbabes} Serena rolls over Cirstea to win Rogers Cup

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TORONTO — Serena Williams breezed to her third Rogers Cup title with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over unseeded Romanian Sorana Cirstea in Sunday's final.

The top-seed American and world No. 1 won her eighth WTA title of the year and 54th of her career. All three of her Rogers Cup titles have come in Toronto, the first in 2001 before winning it again in 2011.

Williams has only lost one match since March, a stunning early exit at Wimbledon.

She did not drop a set this week at the $2.369-million women's tournament and was only tested once when she battled past third-seed Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in a semifinal.

Despite the loss, Cirstea had a breakthrough tournament, having ousted two former world No. 1s in Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki before dethroning defending champion Petra Kvitova in the quarters, then fourth-seed Li Na of China in the semifinals.

She was appearing in only her third WTA final and looking to build on her only title, won way back in 2008 at Tashkent.

Cirstea showed her nerves from the opening game, double faulting the first point and again at 30-40 to give Williams an early break.

Williams broke again for 3-0 after Cirstea sent a backhand wide. That prompted a visit from her Australian coach Darren Cahill, who gave the 23-year-old a pep talk.

It appeared to work momentarily as Cirstea won four straight points to break back and held serve at 3-2 to get back in the match.

But Williams quickly removed any chance of an upset, winning two straight games and acing a set point winner for 6-2.

With shouts of "Sorana" and "Serena" volleying back and forth around the stadium like tennis balls, splashes of Romania's blue, yellow and red could be seen dotting the Rexall Centre stands on a warm, sunny afternoon.

The vocal contingent cheering on Cirstea didn't have much to go on in the second set. Williams broke out of the gate using her trademark power strokes to keep Cirstea running and ripped a 199 m.p.h. ace to hold serve at 2-0.

Cirstea, with her head hanging low, again called over Cahill for motivation, but it did little this time as Williams eased through the final four games and wrapped up the match in just over an hour.

In the doubles final, Jankovic and Katarina Srebotnik of Slovenia were taking on Anna-Lena Groenefeld of Germany and Czech Kveta Peschke.