Jelena Dokic will head for Wimbledon confident of upsetting the dominance of the Williams sisters after winning her first career grass-court title at the DFS Classic in Edgbaston on Sunday.

Dokic breezed past Russian 20-year-old Anastasia Myskina 6-2 6-3 in 52 minutes to win her fifth tour title overall and gain revenge for her loss to Myskina earlier this year on clay.

Dokic said: "This win definitely gives me a lot of confidence for Wimbledon.

"I've won tournaments on all surfaces except grass - but I've always done well at Wimbledon.

"I played well all week and even when I was pushed, I got through break points and tie-breaks and I felt mentally very good.

"I've definitely improved in all respects since last year, but there is still some work to do."

Despite her dominance throughout the week, the top seed did make heavy weather of completing her victory under dark clouds which always threatened to leak.

The Yugoslav 19-year-old was broken when serving for the first set at 5-1, but immediately broke back to go ahead in the match.

The biggest cheer during the first set came from the court-side corporate boxes when the Republic of Ireland grabbed their last-minute equaliser against Spain in the World Cup.

"I did hear it but it didn't affect me," said Dokic, who was anxious to find out the final score.

But it did appear to affect Myskina, who double-faulted three times consecutively amid all the excitement to lose the sixth game.

Myskina said of her own home-bound World Cup nation: "Russia played even worse than I did today."

There were more breaks than holds in an error-strewn second set, but the world number eight had the upper-hand with her powerful baseline play until she served for the match.

Then she played a dismal game and had to recover from 0-40 down to avoid being broken back.

But Dokic, who swept to fame when she beat top seed Martina Hingis in the first round of Wimbledon in 1999, heads to Eastbourne having managed to make the difficult switch from the clay court season to grass with some aplomb.

She immediately telephoned her absent father Damir to inform him of her good news, and added: "He was obviously very pleased. It's my first title on grass and it's always a very tough draw to come through here."

Like Dokic, Myskina will go to Eastbourne next week, but she was more guarded about her own prospects at the All England Club, where she reached the third round in 2000 after beating Belgian Kim Clijsters.

Myskina admitted: "I don't really enjoy playing on grass. I have just got my best result on grass, but I still don't really like the surface.

"I did not feel comfortable or confident out there today. I got very nervous when I started making mistakes and I found it difficult."