Natalie Tauziat took her second DFS Classic title today on her 15th and final appearance at the Edgbaston grass court event.

The 33-year-old French woman, who will retire from the WTA Tour at the end of the current season, overcame Holland's Miriam Oremans 6-3 7-5 in a final held over to an extra day due to rain.

Tauziat's performance was typical of her play throughout the week, mixing sublime spells of flashing returns and passing shots with periods of crisis which threatened to hand her opponent a lifeline.

Tauziat survived break points in her first two Sending final chunk of message 992868130-5258-HSA. service games and grabbed the crucial break in the sixth game of the first set when Oremans double-faulted.

The favourite then raced into a seemingly unassailable 5-1 second set lead with a brilliant display but the cracks appeared when she first served for the match at 5-2, and the unforced errors started to flow.

Tauziat started with two double faults when she served for the match a second time at 5-4 and was broken again as it was Oremans' turn to serve up some blistering returns.

But Tauziat recovered to break back and successfully served out for the championship at the third attempt in front of a sparse crowd in the Edgbaston sunlight.