Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza wins WTA Finals title

GUADALAJARA: Spain's Garbiñe Muguruza fought back from a break down in the second set, winning the last four games of the match to defeat No.8 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, 6-3, 7-5 and win her first WTA Finals Championship, in the process bagging a milestone 10th career WTA singles title.

The biggest title of Garbiñe's career was her third title of the year and it came on Wednesday night in front of an excited crowd in Guadalajara.

Garbiñe is the first Spaniard to win the WTA Finals singles title in the event's history. Former World No.1 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario was the only other player from Spain to reach the WTA Finals singles championship match, finishing as runner-up to Stefanie Graf in 1993.

The Spaniard started well and survived a wobble in the second set to earn a hard-fought win.

Two relatively close sets went the way of Garbiñe due to her greater effectiveness in returning second serves. Anett only won 38 percent of the Spaniard's second-service points, while Muguruza claimed nearly 60 percent of points off the Estonian's second delivery.

Garbiñe and Anett were nearly evenly matched in winners during the clash, with 16 for the Spaniard and 15 for Anett. But Garbiñe played the cleaner match overall, with 14 fewer unforced errors than Anett. IANS

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