Glory for Oceane Dodin at the Shrewsbury Club

Dodin had to come through two qualifying rounds to take her place in the 32-strong main draw for the popular event, which featured eight of Europe's rising tennis stars currently ranked in the world's top 200.

But the highly promising 17-year-old from Lille maintained the excellent form she had produced all week at the Sundorne Road venue to prevail 6-4, 6-3 in the final to deny Witthoeft a third successive tournament victory.

Witthoeft, 19, seeded three and who has rocketed to 132 in the world rankings after her recent exploits, this time had to settle for runners-up spot following her tournament triumphs at Barnstaple and in Saint-Malo in France this month.

The unseeded Dodin, ranked No 559 in the world, wrapped up an impressive victory in just under an hour after a hard-hitting contest enjoyed by an appreciative crowd of more than 200.

Dodin, who enjoyed an early break of serve in the opening set and never looked back, will now enjoy a few days' rest before competing in France.

Julie Piper, the LTA tournament director, said it had been a highly successful tournament and thanked The Shrewsbury Club for being such impressive hosts.

Dave Courteen, the managing director of The Shrewsbury Club, was delighted with the quality of tennis played throughout the week.

He said: "The tournament was a great success and the quality of the tennis was the best we've ever seen at Shrewsbury. For a £25K tournament, it was quite amazing.

"The two girls that reached the final are both excellent young players and I'm sure they are both capable of progressing to the world's top 20, perhaps even top 10.

"It was also very pleasing to see the town of Shrewsbury support the tournament so well and we had the highest attendance throughout the week ever."