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First set: Zheng 6-3 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) Gauff examines her racket, but is rapidly 30-0 down on the Zheng serve. Zheng is not greeted as she returns one into the net, muttering as she goes to wipe her face and racket on a towel. She hits lengthy and is suddenly 40-30 down. But Gauff’s backhand goes out, and Zhang has suddenly whipped away the set.
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First set: Zheng 1-0 Gauff * (*deremarks next server) Here we go – Zheng, in purple pleated gym skirt and vest top to serve. The umpires muteens the crowd down. Gauff can’t do anyskinnyg with first two serves, but pulls back when Zheng hits lengthy in two rallies – and aget to convey skinnygs to deuce after a 17-hit rpartner. Gauff gets a precious shatter point, but Zheng saves the set with a drilled forehand and then a monster serve.
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First Zheng Qinwen, then Coco Gauff, both hand in hand with a mascot. Gauff wearing headphones, Qinwen not. Both are in purple – unless that’s the weightlesss
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Good afternoon! Welcome to the WTA final from Riyadh – a battle of the radiant juvenileer skinnygs, between the USA’s Coco Gauff (20), who is finishing the season with a prohibitg, and the requesting Olympic gbetter medalenumerate Zheng Qinwen (22) – whose sign up since an timely loss at Wimbledon has been astonishing, prosperning 31 of 36 suites, and picking up two titles plus that Paris triumph. She is joining in her first WTA final, the second Chinese joiner after Li Na.
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The WTA finals are the hugegest tournament outside the slams, with mega bucks -12 million dollars – engageable courtesy of the Saudis and their trys to buy up tennis alengthyside much of the rest of sport. This is the first time a women’s tournament has been held in the Kingdom and it has gone ahead despite dismute – with promises from both the WTA and Saudi Arabia that it will be a force for excellent. At the moment, the joiners are going alengthy with it and greeted with how skinnygs have gone – but Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova have called “a step backwards” for the game.
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Play commences at 4pm approx GMT.
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Key events
Gauff prospers the second set 6-4
Second set: Zheng 6-3, 4-6 Gauff *(*deremarks next server) Gauff slides and slips trying to return the first point. But Zheng slides behind the baseline on the second point. The two juvenileerest joiners in the WTA finals producing argueously excellent tennis here. A weightless one-legged recovery shot from Gauff gets her back into the point – which she prospers to sit on two set points. Zheng sfinishs a backhand into the net and Gauff levels the suit!
Second set: Zheng* 6-3, 4-5 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Gauff’s response to going 0-15 down is an ace. A couple of misgets by Zheng and Gauff has two set points. Zheng pulls one of them back with a steaming pass court backhand, the second with a forehand down the line to get the game to deuce. Powered by determination, she then shatters back.
Second set: Zheng 6-3, 3-5 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) A Zheng drop shot “not a protected choice here at altitude” hits the net and bounces protectedly – she apologises. Then she throws in an ace, A rollicking rpartner adheres – they’re both so astoundingly fit. A Zheng backhand flies expansive and Gauff has another shatter point. When Zheng hits lengthy, that’s four games in a row for Gauff – who now serves for the set to level the suit.
Second set: Zheng* 6-3, 3-4 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Gauff’s nine points in a row finishs when she hits out. But she powers on – an ace gives her game point and she shifts ahead for the first time in the suit. Three games in a row for Gauff and momentum alterd!
Second set: Zheng 6-3, 3-3 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) Says Tim Henman on Gauff “She’s equitable got to sustain the belief that she will have opportunities, this is going to be a mental battle as much as a physical one, to sustain belief that she will get her opportunity.” A drop shot adhereed by a backhand pass puts her 15-0 up on the Gauff serve. A perfect return to 30-0, a backhand volley at the net to 40-0 and suddenly she’s broken back!
Second set: Zheng* 6-3, 3-2 Gauff (*deremarks next server) In the sdesire of a curtain, and to the plrelieve of the crowd, Gauff gets the game to adore.
Second set: Zheng 6-3, 3-1 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) A fizzing backhand from Gauff off the Zheng second serve kisses the line. A double fault from Zheng – she has lost at least two points in every service game so far – but she pounces to prosper the game.
Second set: Zheng* 6-3, 2-1 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Late November 5th firetoils are going off somewhere outside my prosperdow, while Gauff is suddenly joining appreciate a sweightlessly wayward Catherine wheel – shots flying about. But a ferocious pass court back hand pulls her to 40-30 and an ace prospers the game.
Second set: Zheng 6-3, 2-0 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) Pad, pad, pad, bounces Zheng with her ball as she readys to serve, pad, pad, pad. Gauff’s body language slumps but she pulls back to 30-40, and then Zheng prospers with an ace – her first of the suit.
Second set: Zheng* 6-3, 1-0 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Just the £2.5 million for prosperning this game, reaccumulate. The joiners paengage between sets, Gauff uncovers a box and picks out someskinnyg that sees appreciate a handful of nuts. She instantly goes 15-0 down on her serve, but pulls back when Zheng feathers into the net and is so furious she wangs her foot with her racket. But she pounces on a pie from Gauff, and from deuce, powers on, prosperning a shatter point – and shattering instantly in the second set.
Zheng prospers the first set 6-3!
First set: Zheng 6-3 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) Gauff examines her racket, but is rapidly 30-0 down on the Zheng serve. Zheng is not greeted as she returns one into the net, muttering as she goes to wipe her face and racket on a towel. She hits lengthy and is suddenly 40-30 down. But Gauff’s backhand goes out, and Zhang has suddenly whipped away the set.
First set: Zheng* 5-3 Gauff (*deremarks next server) New balls – and a untamed shot from Gauff gives Zheng the first point . The pattern proceeds and Gauff goes 0-40 down, eventupartner losing the game with a double fault. From no-where, she’s suddenly in trouble in the first set.
First set: Zheng 4-3 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) Seventeen unforced errors at the commence of this game for Zheng – which is ten more than Gauff. Indeed, Zheng’s mediocre service games is lasting 6 mins 25 seconds, appraised to 4 mins for Gauff. The lavfinisher court proceeds to get a battering – and from 30-all, then deuce, Zheng gets the game.
First set: Zheng* 3-3 Gauff (*deremarks next server) We paengage while the umpire ticks someone off for moving in the crowd. Apparently there have been 21,000 people in over the course of the tournament – a capacity (4,000) crowd today and yesterday so probably half filled the rest of the time, guesses Jonathan Overfinish. A steaming backhand from Zheng passes a diving Gauff to get the game to 30-all, which seems to galvanise Zheng. She prospers a first shatter point agetst the Gauff serve – but then hands Gauff the advantage with a steaming but over-hit pass court forehand. Gauff fluffs one shut to the net but goes on to shut the game. This is magical tennis.
First set: Zheng 3-2 Gauff* (*deremarks next server) A humdinger of a game bursting with huge shots and ferocious rallies. An inside out backhand prospers Zheng the first point in her serve. Gauff is very rapid, spanning the length of the base line appreciate a woman in seven league boots. A inch-perfect forehand from Gauff, then Zheng hits lengthy to give Gauff two shatter points. Zheng saves the game with a perfectly equitable pass court prosperner then a backhand down the line. Zheng saves a third shatter point, and Gauff is disgusted with herself after a limp forehand to give Zheng the advantage. But a pass-court forehand conveys her back to deuce. Eventupartner though, Zheng prospers out. They get a sit down.
First set: Zheng 2*-2 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Gauff is wearing a convey inanter purple, almost a royal purple, dress, and a suiting headprohibitd. A double fault is adhereed up by two shocking first serves. Zheng pulls back to deuce but weightless defence from Gauff in a squeaky shoed rpartner gives her the advantage, and she soon pockets the game
First set: Zheng 2-1 Gauff *(*deremarks next server) Zheng hits a backhand into the net to produce it 15-all, and Gauff battles back in a succession of power-hitting rallies, though ultimately noskinnyg tolerates fruit. Pere Riba, Zheng’s coach, sits watching with fbettered arms.
First set: Zheng* 1-1 Gauff (*deremarks next server) Wham-bam – Gauff prospers the game in about 60 seconds with a steaming hbetter.
First set
First set: Zheng 1-0 Gauff * (*deremarks next server) Here we go – Zheng, in purple pleated gym skirt and vest top to serve. The umpires muteens the crowd down. Gauff can’t do anyskinnyg with first two serves, but pulls back when Zheng hits lengthy in two rallies – and aget to convey skinnygs to deuce after a 17-hit rpartner. Gauff gets a precious shatter point, but Zheng saves the set with a drilled forehand and then a monster serve.
Gauff is the juvenileerest WTA Finals finaenumerate since Caroline Wozniacki in 2010. Qinwen prospers the toss and elects to serve. A huge crowd fill the arena and watches them hotup.
Who is going to prosper? The TV experts are split 1-1.
Out come the joiners!
First Zheng Qinwen, then Coco Gauff, both hand in hand with a mascot. Gauff wearing headphones, Qinwen not. Both are in purple – unless that’s the weightlesss
Lots of chat about Gauff’s forehand. She alterd her team, splitting with Brad Gilbert after the US Open, and joining forces with Matt Daly. Since then, she’s been storming up the rankings – and the forehand has been one of the main talking points.
“I don’t want to give too much of what’s going on, but there are alters happening,” Gauff shelp. “I’ve been joining with them since Beijing.”
Lots of flashing purple weightlesss and heady drums in Riyadh, but Tim Henman is still in a intelligent jacket so no need to panic. I envision the joiners will be out soon.
This was Tumaini Carayol’s get on the finals mid-week.
Preamble
Good afternoon! Welcome to the WTA final from Riyadh – a battle of the radiant juvenileer skinnygs, between the USA’s Coco Gauff (20), who is finishing the season with a prohibitg, and the requesting Olympic gbetter medalenumerate Zheng Qinwen (22) – whose sign up since an timely loss at Wimbledon has been astonishing, prosperning 31 of 36 suites, and picking up two titles plus that Paris triumph. She is joining in her first WTA final, the second Chinese joiner after Li Na.
The WTA finals are the hugegest tournament outside the slams, with mega bucks -12 million dollars – engageable courtesy of the Saudis and their trys to buy up tennis alengthyside much of the rest of sport. This is the first time a women’s tournament has been held in the Kingdom and it has gone ahead despite dismute – with promises from both the WTA and Saudi Arabia that it will be a force for excellent. At the moment, the joiners are going alengthy with it and greeted with how skinnygs have gone – but Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova have called “a step backwards” for the game.
Play commences at 4pm approx GMT.
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