Heather Watson claims first WTA tour title of career with doubles victory in Bank of the West Classic final The 20 year-old Briton and her partner from New Zealand had already beaten the second and third seeds on their way to the final, where they came out 7-5, 7-6 (9/7) winners against players ranked seventh and 37th in the world. After breaking three times to win the opening set, Watson and Erakovic fell a break down at the start of the second. They battled back to serve for the match at 5-3 but were broken, then threw away two match points on their opponents' serve, but held firm to take the second set on a tie-break. For Watson, who reached the second round in the singles draw, it was the perfect warm-up for the Olympics, where she will represent Great Britain in the doubles partnering Laura Robson. She will play in the Mercury Insurance Open in California next week before heading back to Britain for the start of London 2012. Watson, meanwhile, has risen to 71 in the WTA singles rankings while Robson is 20 places below in 91. Anne Keothavong is 76th in the rankings, while fellow Brit Elena Baltacha is No 100.