Austrias Paszek wins Bell Challenge 
<p>[September 20 2010]

<p>Tamira Paszek, of Austria, won the 220,000 dollar Bell Challenge for her second WTA Tour title, beating American Bethanie Mattek-Sands 7-6 (8/6), 2-6, 7-5 in Quebec City. Paszek, who earned 37,000 dollars in prize money, won her first tour title at Portoroz in 2006 at age 15 and was runner up at Bali, Indonesia two years ago.

<p>Paszek needed two hours, 47 minutes to top the American at the indoor event at Club Advantage Multi-Sports de Quebec. Mattek-Sands was making her second career final appearance, having also finished as the runner-up here in 2008. It was the first meeting between the two players.

<p>Paszek advanced to the championship match by cruising past American Christina McHale 6-2, 6-2. Mattek-Sands advanced to the final by upsetting Czech third seed Lucie Safarova 6-2, 6-1 in the other semi-final. Mattek-Sands took home 19,000 dollars.