22 Monday, October 30, 2017 SPORTS Caroline Wozniacki celebrates with his trophy (Picture courtesy: theguardian) Pouille powers to biggest title

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Pouille dominates Tsonga to win title (Picture courtesy: eurosport) Vienna World Tour Masters 1000 event of ucas Pouille soared to his the year next week in Paris. WTA trophy Lbiggest career crown at the “I’m very happy with how the Singapore against Wozniacki stretching back to attack Wozniacki at the net. Erste Bank Open 500, dominating week ended,” said Pouille. “All the enmark’s Caroline Wozniacki 2007, and having won just one set But the 37-year-old rallied to countryman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga work I’ve done has paid off... It’s beat Venus Williams to claim the against the American. produce some of her best tennis and 6-1, 6-4 yesterday. my first ATP World Tour 500 title. Dbiggest title of her career at the WTA The world number five has been in turn the tide. The Frenchman notched his I played some great tennis and I Finals in Singapore. fine form this year and was a finalist at With Wozniacki serving for the title first ATP World Tour 500-level was a bit emotional at the end. Williams - at 37, the oldest woman the Australian Open and Wimbledon. at 5-3, Williams outlasted her younger trophy, earning a fourth title in It’s always great to finish the week to ever reach the final - lost 6-4 6-4. But the veteran will finish 2017 opponent in a gruelling rally before his young career. With the victory, with a victory. After a tight first set, number six without a title after Wozniacki then hitting a sublime forehand passing he became the first player in 2017 “Jo has been playing for two seed Wozniacki stormed into a 5-0 lead prevented her from regaining the shot to get back on serve. to win on all surfaces, adding a weeks now and I knew he’d be in the second. Finals trophy she won nine years ago. But it was Wozniacki’s day hard-court crown in Vienna to a little tired. I had to be focused Williams then won four straight Former world number one though and, after hitting her first triumphs on the clay of Budapest on every point. He made a few games but Wozniacki, 27, converted Wozniacki saw huge success on her Championship point long, a perfect and grass of Stuttgart. mistakes with the forehand and I her second Championship point to serve on the slow surface in Singapore, backhand saw her break serve and seal Despite the loss, Tsonga stays found a way to win the match.” beat the American for the first time. ending with a tournament-leading 21 her second title of 2017 following last in the hunt for one of the two Pouille was off to the races from “It feels amazing, I can’t believe I am aces. month’s Pan-Pacific Open in Tokyo. remaining berths in the Emirates the first ball at the Wiener Stadthalle. here as the winner,” she told BT Sport. And the Dane backed that fine It completes a fine comeback ATP Race To London. Bidding to After denying a break point in his “Venus Williams is a great champion serving up with only eight unforced season for the two-time Grand Slam make his fourth appearance at the second service game, the younger and she made it very, very difficult for errors in the final. finalist, who endured an injury- season finale, he is just 295 points Frenchman was indefatigable from me. This is my biggest title to date.” It appeared to be one-way traffic in marred 2016 and finished ranked behind Pablo Carreno Busta for the baseline and consistently forced Fifth seed Williams went into the second set, with Williams looking number 19, her lowest position since the eighth and final spot. All will his compatriot into uncomfortable yesterday’s final with a 7-0 record heavy in the legs and no longer able to 2007. (BBC) be on the line at the final ATP positions. (atpworldtour) Times as SanTina were incredible: Hingis Halep earns WTA year-end Singapore World No.1 singles ranking wiss legend Martina Hingis, who bid adieu to professional tennis St Petersburg Son Saturday, applauded Indians he Women’s Tennis Sania Mirza and Leander Paes, who Association (WTA) she partnered in her third innings in announcedT yesterday that the sport. Romania’s Simona Halep has The 37-year-old, who added earned the 2017 WTA Year-End 10 major crowns to her already World No.1 singles ranking, considerable collection in this presented by Dubai Duty Free. outing, bowed out of the last-four Since the inception of of the BNP Paribas WTA Finals, computer rankings in 1975, playing alongside Taipei’s Yung-Jan Halep becomes the 13th WTA Chan. player to achieve the year-end “I will forever be grateful to have No.1 singles ranking, and the had these partnerships,” Hingis, first from Romania. who won seven major titles pairing The Romanian became the with Sania and Paes in the doubles 25th player to achieve the No.1 and mixed-doubles, said. “Without ranking on October 9, 2017 Sania, I wouldn’t have come back following her 27th career WTA and had that feeling again. When final at the China Open in we won Wimbledon, it was pure joy. Beijing, and will hold the No.1 And getting back to No. 1 was one ranking on November 9, the of the things. I couldn’t have done official year-end rank date for it alone.” the 2017 season. The Swiss added, “The times as “I’m very proud to end the ‘SanTina’ were incredible.” season as the WTA World “So were the ones with Leander, No.1,” said Halep. winning four Slams more,” she said. “I have worked extremely “I couldn’t have done it without hard to be the best player I can them. Adding 10 more Slams to my be, and it is an honour to be in career in the third journey was pretty the No.1 position at the end of Simona Halep cool. Every single partner I had on the year.” (wtatennis) Martina Hingis (R)with Sania Mirza (file pic) the way has been amazing.” (TOI)