More than three hours of an impressive ending. The WTA Masters, the year-end tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season, concluded on Saturday, November 9 in Riyadh with the coronation of the American Coco Gauff.
the 3my The world player defeated the Chinese Zheng Qinwen (7my) in three sets: 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7/2). A success that crowns a week in which she defeated the two women who preceded her in the classification: the Polish Iga Swiatek (2my), during the group stage, and the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, in the semifinals.
At 20 years old, the winner of the 2023 US Open becomes the youngest winner of the WTA Masters since the Russian Maria Sharapova in 2004. A nice revenge for the standard bearer of the American delegation at the Olympic Games, who had experienced disappointment in Paris. by being eliminated in the second round in singles.
Since Li Na in 2013, no Chinese woman has reached the final of the WTA Masters. But Zheng Qinwen failed to become the first Asian player to triumph in this tournament created in 1972.
The competition was held for the first time in Saudi Arabia, an election in which Coco Gauff admitted to having had problems. “reserves”, for the human rights violations accused by the conservative kingdom.
