Garbine Muguruza defeated Anett Kontaveit to win the WTA Finals title.© AFP
Garbine Muguruza beat Anett Kontaveit 6-3, 7-5 on Wednesday to develop into the primary Spaniard to win the elite season-ending WTA Finals in Guadalajara, Mexico. Muguruza, winner of the 2016 French Open and 2017 Wimbledon titles, capped a 2021 marketing campaign that noticed her return to the very best stage with titles in Dubai and Chicago after three years outdoors of the highest 10. Muguruza, a former world primary, is projected to finish the 12 months at quantity three on the earth. Kontaveit, whose late-season surge included titles at Moscow and Cluj-Napoca, is projected to succeed in a career-high rating of seventh on the earth.
Muguruza battled again from a break down within the second set, profitable the final 4 video games of the match to seal her tenth profession title, breaking Kontaveit at love.
She notched her second win of the event towards Kontaveit, having ended the Estonian’s 12-match WTA win streak with a must have round-robin victory on Sunday.
It was the seventh time in WTA Finals historical past that round-robin opponents have had a rematch within the remaining.
“I might prefer to congratulate Garbine,” Kontaveit mentioned as she accepted her runner-up award. “You’ve got overwhelmed me twice this week, that is simply too good.”
For Muguruza it was one other standout efficiency in Mexico, the place she received back-to-back titles in Monterrey in 2018 and 2019.
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The WTA Finals have been moved to Guadalajara from Shenzhen, China, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Then again, the ATP Finals, the season ending males’s event, is being held in Turin in Italy after being moved from London.
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