SINGAPORE: Ageless Venus Williams revived her WTA Finals campaign with an epic three-hour, three-set victory over error-prone Jelena Ostapenko on Tuesday, dealing a large blow to the French Open champion's hopes.
The 37-year-old international quantity 5 rebounded from her opening defeat to Karolina Pliskova with a marathon 7-Five, 6-7 (7/three), 7-Five win over 3 hours and 13 mins -- only one minute shy of the report played on the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The spherical robin fit was strewn and not using a fewer than 20 breaks of serve, with Williams taking pictures 11 of them -- sufficient to edge her to a victory that guarantees she remains in the season finale.
It was reduction for the American, who let slip a fit level in the second set but summoned up all her enjoy to stick cool when she were given some other opportunity in the third.
During the 69-minute third set, which incorporated six consecutive breaks, Williams clinched the decisive damage in the 11th game and then clinically held serve to outlast the Latvian.
It maintained Williams' absolute best report over Ostapenko, having received their only encounter earlier this 12 months at Wimbledon.
The consequence will sting for Ostapenko who started brightly, operating Williams around the court docket and hitting the traces with precision, significantly several piercing cross-court winners.
The 20-year-old delivered 12 of the primary 13 winners in the fit ahead of her self belief nosedived as she struggled along with her serve.
Even regardless that she had a significant 48-26 advantage in winners, Ostapenko had just a 46 p.c good fortune rate along with her first serve, and dished up 13 double faults.
The 37-year-old international quantity 5 rebounded from her opening defeat to Karolina Pliskova with a marathon 7-Five, 6-7 (7/three), 7-Five win over 3 hours and 13 mins -- only one minute shy of the report played on the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
The spherical robin fit was strewn and not using a fewer than 20 breaks of serve, with Williams taking pictures 11 of them -- sufficient to edge her to a victory that guarantees she remains in the season finale.
It was reduction for the American, who let slip a fit level in the second set but summoned up all her enjoy to stick cool when she were given some other opportunity in the third.
During the 69-minute third set, which incorporated six consecutive breaks, Williams clinched the decisive damage in the 11th game and then clinically held serve to outlast the Latvian.
It maintained Williams' absolute best report over Ostapenko, having received their only encounter earlier this 12 months at Wimbledon.
The consequence will sting for Ostapenko who started brightly, operating Williams around the court docket and hitting the traces with precision, significantly several piercing cross-court winners.
The 20-year-old delivered 12 of the primary 13 winners in the fit ahead of her self belief nosedived as she struggled along with her serve.
Even regardless that she had a significant 48-26 advantage in winners, Ostapenko had just a 46 p.c good fortune rate along with her first serve, and dished up 13 double faults.
WTA Finals: Venus survives three-hour Ostapenko epic
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October 25, 2017
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