It was the third WTA career title for the 24-year-old Mona Barthel, who is currently ranked 61st. Barthel had also won her last meeting with

In other second-round matches, fourth-seeded Tamira Paszek of Austria lost to American Alison Riske, 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, and eighth-seeded Urszula Radwanska of Poland was beaten by Croatia's Donna Vekic, 6-3, 6-2.

Playing their third final of the season, the unseeded Indo-American pair lost 4-6 5-7 in one hour and 33 minutes to the local favourites, who were unseeded wild card entrants.

Errani was hardly tested as lucky loser Kiki Bertens of the Netherlands retired injured in the first set when the Italian was leading 5-0.

Unseeded Vesnina ended Barthel's winning run of 12-straight matches in Hobart, and finally clinched her first title after five previous losses in finals.

Mona Barthel surprised defending champion Barbora Zahlavova Strycova cruising to victory in straight sets 6-3, 6-4 in the quarter-finals of the WTA Tour's Bell Challenge tournament on Friday.

Leander Paes and his Russian partner Elena Vesnina reached the pre quarter-final of the mixed doubles at the Wimbledon with a straight-set victory over Australia's Ashley Fisher and Mona Barthel of Germany, here on Wednesday.

Wild-card Mona Barthel claimed her second scalp at Stuttgart's clay-court WTA tournament on Thursday to reach the last eight after she knocked out seventh seed Marion Bartoli.

Wild-card Mona Barthel was delighted by her shock first-round win over former idol and ex-world number one Ana Ivanovic at Stuttgart's clay-court WTA tournament on Wednesday.

Mona Barthel of Germany fought Australian Open champion and No. 1 Victoria Azarenka for 3 hours before finally losing 6-4, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open on Friday.