After the red group battle at WTA Finals entered a “white” Quartet.
Defending champion of the Final tournament Agnieszka Radwanska began the defense of the title with a dramatic defeat against Svetlana Kuznetsova, guaranteeing itself a place in Singapore just three days before the start of the tournament.
The first set then lost, leading 4:1. In the second party pole took a convincing revenge, and then again took up the old – in a decisive game Agnieszka led 4:2, and then served for the match and had a match-bol. Kuznetsova took the initiative and completed a three-hour battle in their favor.
Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland, 2) — Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia, 8) — 5:7, 6:1, 5:7
Become Kuznetsova played the Final tournament debutante Karolina Pliskova the Czech confidently controlled the match against Garbine Muguruza, then coarsely failed and the cost of enormous effort snatched victory.
Pliskova broke Muguruza in the first set and was leading 3:1 in the second game – the Spaniard responded with a series of four won games in a row, and then are unable to apply for a set and bounced back with 0:3 in the tiebreak. The final game the Spaniard started with a jerk 4:0 – Pliskova in the eighth game played match-bol, than very upset to Muguruza. The champion of Roland Garros in 2016 and are unable to move away from this failure – the Spaniard miserably lost all the remaining games.
Karolina Pliskova (Czechia, 5) – Garbine Muguruza (Spain, 6) – 6:2, 6:7 (4),7:5
Standings: Pliskova (2:1) – 1, Kuznetsova (2:1) – 1, according to preliminary data (1:2) – 0, then (1:2) is 0.
