STANFORD, Calif. — Aleksandra Wozniak had to survive through eight matches in nine days to win her first WTA Tour singles title. Somehow by the end of the week the qualifier was still playing at her best and it was her opponents who had worn down.

Wozniak became the first Canadian to win a WTA Tour singles title in 20 years, taking an advantage of an injury to Marion Bartoli to win the Bank of the West Classic 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday.

Wozniak won the semifinal when top-seeded Serena Williams pulled out with a knee injury in the second set. Then Bartoli was slowed in the final by a sore left hip that left her limping badly late in the match.

“I don’t know what’s happening,” Wozniak said. “I guess I make them run too much or something. Yesterday (Serena) pulled out and today she got hurt, Marion. I don’t know. I just keep playing aggressive and doing what I needed to do to win.”

Wozniak, 20, needed to win three matches in qualifying — including a three-setter against Angela Haynes in the first round just to make the main draw. She followed with five more wins to become the first Canadian since Jill Hetherington at Wellington in February 1988 to win a women’s singles title. Wozniak was only 5 months old at the time.

Only three other Canadian women have won tour titles: Patricia Hy-Boulais, Taipei, 1986; Helen Kelesi, Tokyo, 1986; and Carling Bassett-Seguso, Strasbourg, 1987.

“It’s great. I think I made history at home,” Wozniak said. “Everybody was watching the match. I’m just proud of being Canadian.”

Wozniak also became just the third qualifier to win a tournament this year and the first to do it in a Tier II tournament — one with more than $600,000 in prize money. She was the first qualifier to win this event since the inception of computer rankings in 1982.

The match was tight for most of the first set, before Wozniak took charge with Bartoli serving for the set at 5-4. She won 12 of the final 14 points to take the set, using her powerful backhand to break Bartoli’s serve twice.

Then in the opening game of the second set Bartoli began grabbing at her left hip, which got worse as the match progressed. After losing that first game at love, Bartoli asked the referee to get the trainer on call and Bartoli took a medical timeout trailing 2-1.

“This morning when I was warming up I felt already a little pain but it was not that bad,” Bartoli said. “When I started the match it really started to hurt. I just tried the whole first set to forget about the pain and just play.”

Bartoli came back on the court limping noticeably and struggled to move. She gamely played on but never was able to threaten Wozniak and lost the match when her backhand hit the net cord and fell back to her side.

Also on Sunday:

Simon wins Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS — Gilles Simon of France won his first ATP title on American soil, beating Dmitry Tursunov 6-4, 6-4 at the Indianapolis Tennis Championships on Sunday.

Simon, seeded second and ranked 25th in the world, had not reached an ATP semifinal in the United States before the Indianapolis tournament, which moved to a hard-court surface in 1988.

“That’s special for me because it’s not the kind of court I like to play usually,” said the 23-year-old Simon, who earned his fourth career ATP title. “I beat some good players on this kind of court, that’s why it’s a very good thing to win this tournament.”

Del Potro earns another title

KITZBUEHEL, Austria — Juan Martin del Potro won his second straight ATP Tour title by defeating Austria’s Jurgen Melzer 6-2, 6-1 in the clay-court final of the last Austrian Open.

Del Potro, a 19-year-old Argentine won last week, in Stuttgart, Germany.

“These were two great weeks for me, really unbelievable,” he said. “I can only dream that I will be able to play on at this level.”

Melzer was playing in his first final of the year. He is 1-6 in finals, winning only in Bucharest, Romania, in 2006.

Spaniard wins Dutch Open

AMERSFOORT, Netherlands — Albert Montanes of Spain won his first ATP Tour singles title, capturing the Dutch Open with a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory over defending champion Steve Darcis of Belgium.

Darcis, seeded third, was trying to become the first player to win consecutive Dutch Open titles since Hungary’s Balazs Taroczy won five straight from 1978 to 1982.

Montanes, seeded fifth, is the first Spaniard to win this event Alex Corretja in 2001. Montanes’ best previous result had been reaching last year’s final in Casablanca.

Parmentier wins Gastein title

BAD GASTEIN, Austria — Fourth-seeded Pauline Parmentier of France won the Gastein Ladies final Sunday, beating Lucie Hradecka of the Czech Republic 6-4, 6-4.

It was Parmentier’s second WTA Tour title after winning in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, last year.

“It was a wonderful week for me,” the 53rd-ranked Parmentier said. “I am glad that I played well consistently.”