The Limited Times

Now you can see non-English news...

Garbiñe Muguruza from Spain wins the 2021 Masters Tennis World Cup

2021-11-18T09:33:28.966Z


Garbiñe Muguruza is the first Spanish woman to win the prestigious end-of-the-year individual championship of the women's tennis world championship.


Muguruza wins the WTA Finals and Guadalajara meets as host 1:26

(CNN in Spanish) -

Garbiñe Muguruza became the first Spanish woman to win the prestigious end-of-year individual championship of the women's tennis world championship on Wednesday, at the Akron WTA Finals in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Muguruza, world number six in the WTA ranking, defeated number eight, Anett Kontaveit of Estonia, 6-3, 7-5.

They were two pulverizing sets that gave him the victory that he was looking for so much in a tournament that had been elusive until now.

She is the first Spanish to win the singles title of the WTA Finals in the history of the event.

Garbiñe Muguruza seeks to resume the path to the top 1:07

Former world number one Arantxa Sánchez Vicario was the only other player from Spain to reach the individual championship match of the WTA Finals, finishing as runner-up behind the mythical Stefanie Graf in 1993.

Muguruza and her love affair with Mexico

This is Muguruza's 10th career WTA title.

"Right now I feel extremely happy and relieved because it is a tournament where I struggled in the beginning, then I managed to play well," she said in her post-match press conference.

advertising

With the victory, Muguruza continues to dominate the WTA tournaments in Mexico, where she has a record of 14 wins and 2 losses throughout her career.

(Photo by Hector Vivas / Getty Images for WTA,)

In his most recent previous visits to the country, Muguruza won consecutive titles in Monterrey in 2018 and 2019.

"It means a lot to me to win such a big tournament in Latin America, here in Mexico. I think it's just perfect," Muguruza added.

With this victory, the WTA projects that the winner of two Grand Slams will rise to the third position in the world rankings at the end of the sum of the score of the upcoming season.

"I am very happy to have shown myself once again that I can be the best, I can be the teacher, as we say in Spanish. That puts me in a very good position for next year, a good ranking. It is only the reward for one year. so long. My team and I worked hard. It's worth it. It just shows us that we are doing it the right way, "concluded Muguruza.

Garbiñe Muguruza

Source: cnnespanol

All news articles on 2021-11-18

You may like

Sports 2024-02-28T22:34:40.844Z
News/Politics 2024-02-14T17:40:55.709Z

Trends 24h

News/Politics 2024-03-28T06:04:53.137Z

Latest

© Communities 2019 - Privacy

The information on this site is from external sources that are not under our control.
The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within them.