Coco Gauff shows supreme determination to come from behind against Zheng Qinwen to win the season-ending WTA Finals.
Coco Gauff showed supreme determination to come from behind against Zheng Qinwen to win the season-ending WTA Finals.
"That was a great match, I was just trying my best to hang in there and I never gave up," Gauff told Sky Sports. In progressing to Saturday's showpiece, Gauff had become the youngest player to reach the championship match at the WTA Finals since Caroline Wozniacki in 2010. But it was the Chinese seventh seed who got the decisive break in the opener, a double fault from Gauff after a hat-trick of unforced errors giving Zheng the advantage and the opportunity to serve out the set.
With renewed determination, the American restored parity in an outstanding return game, after which the pair again traded breaks. But the unperturbed Gauff broke Zheng's serve for the third successive game to take the match to a decider. Zheng then won three successive games, dropping just four points along the way, and looked to be sauntering towards the win. But a game of errors when serving for the match brought Gauff back into contention.
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