Coco Gauff won her first WTA final by defeating Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in Saturday’s final.
The 20-year-old American went 2-0 and 5-3 down in the final set and had two points from one set loss.
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However, he took the set to a tiebreaker and won the first six points. Zheng threatened a comeback but Gauff sealed the victory with his third match point by winning a forehand as he came to the net.
Gauff defeated two of the best players in the world – Aryna Sabalenka again Iga Swiatek – in his run to the finals at the season-ending event in
Riyadh.
Zheng was looking to cap off a season in which he reached his first major final at the Australian Open and delivered China’s first Olympic singles tennis gold medal.
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In the second final, Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe beat Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova and America’s Taylor Townsend.
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