MADRID, 7 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek was proclaimed this Monday the winner of the WTA Finals, a tournament that brought together the eight best of the 2023 season in Cancún (Mexico), and also regained the world number one after beating the American in the final Jessica Pegula with tremendous authority 6-1, 6-0.
The Central European closed the year in the best possible way, with her first title in this event, and snatched the first place in the world rankings from the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, who had risen to that position after the United States Open.
Swiatek demonstrated at the ‘masters’ event that she was arriving at her best level and was crowned the best of the year with her eleventh consecutive victory, ten of them, including all of these WTA Finals, without giving up a set. In Cancun she only lost 20 games in her five matches and only the American Coco Gauff and the Czech Marketa Vondrousova were very close to snatching a sleeve from her.
In the final, postponed to Monday due to the weather, the Pole maintained her overwhelming line against a Pegula who arrived encouraged after winning her last duel, in the semifinals in Montreal (Canada) this past summer, but who had no arguments and After 1-1 he did not win any game again.
Furthermore, in the doubles table, the German Laura Siegemund and the Russian Vera Zvonareva, sixth seeds, were proclaimed ‘masters’, defeating the American Nicole Melichar-Martinez and the Australian Ellen Perez, eighth, by a double 6-4. .