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Caroline Wozniacki Wins 2017 BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore
作者 admin
2017/10/31, Tuesday
After the
Top 8 players of 2017 battled each other for over a week in
Singapore, Caroline Wozniacki stands on top of the mountain.
The No.6-seeded Dane
moved past fifth seed Venus Williams of the United States, 6-4,
6-4, to claim the title at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore
presented by SC Global on Sunday. Wozniacki wins the WTA Finals for
the first time, besting her runner-up finish in 2010.
Wozniacki
had to survive a stirring comeback from Williams in the second set.
"I’m still shaking," Wozniacki said in her on-court
interview after the match. "I was up 5-0, everything was
going well, and all of a sudden, Venus just starts upping her
game. She went for her shots, she started serving to my body,
and I’m just so happy that I managed to win in the end."
Not only did Wozniacki
win the WTA Finals for the first time, but she also beat Williams for
the first time in her career, after seven previous losses. "Eight
is my lucky number!" the Dane enthused. "I was hoping that
if I’m going to beat her, at least once in my career, it has to be
today. I just went out there and I just did my best."
Wozniacki
played her exceptional mix of offense and defense to the hilt,
hitting 19 winners to only eight unforced errors. Four of those
winners were aces, extending her strong serving statistics she
exhibited throughout the tournament.
Williams had a solid
match as well, with 31 winners and a first serve percentage of 70
percent, but was unable to close out pivotal service games when she
needed to at the end of both sets, and was broken two more times than
Wozniacki, which was the difference.
Martina Hingis Announces Retirement from Professional Tennis
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2017/10/31, Tuesday
Switzerland’s
Martina Hingis has announced she is ending her career and retiring
from professional tennis. Winner of 43 career singles titles and 64
career doubles titles (including 25 career Grand Slam titles across
singles, doubles and mixed doubles), Hingis will step away from the
sport, concluding a career as one of the legendary greats of the
game.
The
37-year-old exits the game following a trophy-laden career that has
spanned three decades, 209 weeks as the singles WTA World No.1, 70
weeks as the doubles WTA World No.1 (and counting) and an induction
into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 2013.
“Tennis
will always be part of my life,” said Hingis. "I've had an
amazing career that I will cherish forever, and I'm excited for the
challenges ahead of me. Thank you to everyone who supported me
throughout all of the years."
Hingis
turned professional in 1994 and clinched her first WTA singles title
in 1996 at Filderstadt. She went on to collect a total of 548 singles
match wins, while her haul of 43 career singles titles is the
12th-most in WTA history. The Swiss star is also one of only six
players to hold the WTA World No.1 ranking in singles and doubles at
the same time.
Following
two previous retirements, in 2003 and 2007, Hingis returned to
professional tennis in 2013, and enjoyed phenomenal success in
doubles, lifting 28 titles following her comeback. In a further
testament to her extraordinary career, Hingis has announced her
retirement while currently co-ranked World No.1 in doubles with
Chinese Taipei’s Chan Yung-Jan, whom she has won nine titles with
this year.
Away
from the court, Hingis has been recognized with numerous awards and
accolades surrounding her accomplished career, including being named
the 1997 BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, named in the
2000 Forbes magazine Power 100, becoming the first female athlete to
be on the cover of famed magazine GQ in 1998, and landed the 2000
Jerry Diamond WTA Aces Award which celebrates off court
participation.
Hingis
played her last professional tournament at the 2017 BNP Paribas WTA
Finals Singapore presented by SC Global, reaching the semifinals with
Co-World No.1 Chan Yung-Jan.
Information from WTA
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Simona Halep Clinches 2017 WTA Year-End World No.1 Singles Ranking
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2017/10/31, Tuesday
The
Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced that Romania’s
Simona Halep has earned the 2017 WTA Year-End World No.1 singles
ranking, presented by Dubai Duty Free.
Since
the inception of computer rankings in 1975, Halep becomes the 13th
WTA player to achieve the year-end No.1 singles ranking, and the
first from Romania.
“Our
congratulations to Simona Halep who is a worthy winner of the WTA
year-end World No.1 singles ranking. Simona has had a great season,
winning the title in Madrid and reaching the final at Roland Garros,”
said Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Dubai Duty
Free. “We wish her well for the remainder of the year and look
forward to seeing her play in Dubai in the near future, where she won
the title in 2015 and has many ardent fans.”
The
Romanian became the 25th player to achieve the No.1 ranking on
October 9, 2017 following her 27th career WTA final at the China Open
in Beijing, and is ensured to retain the position as the top player
for the rest of the year.
“I’m
very proud to end the season as the WTA World No.1,” said Halep. “I
have worked extremely hard to be the best player I can be, and it is
an honor to be in the No.1 position at the end of the year.”
Halep
has enjoyed another consistent season, highlighted by defending her
title at the Mutua Madrid Open and reaching her second Grand Slam
final at Roland Garros. In addition, the 26-year-old reached the
title match at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia (Rome), Western &
Southern Open (Cincinnati) and the China Open (Beijing), earning her
fourth consecutive qualification at the year-end BNP Paribas WTA
Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.
This
season, Halep also made a quarterfinal run at Wimbledon, as well as
semifinal showings at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix (Stuttgart) and
Rogers Cup (Toronto).
Halep
entered the Top 10 for the first time on January 27, 2014, and has
maintained her Top 10 status for 196 consecutive weeks. Having made
her debut in the Top 5 in the spring of 2014, the Romanian has spent
just eight weeks below that threshold.