Watch Garbine Muguruza’s Celebrate Her 22nd Birthday With This Most-Excellent

She will meet Garbine Muguruza in the final on Sunday after the Spaniard also came from behind to seal her place against Agnieszka Radwanska, the 22-year-old winning 4-6 6-3 6-4.

The 26-year-old is now just two wins away from qualifying for the WTA Finals and admitted it was nice to get back on track at this late stage of the campaign. “This has been an energizing year for me”.

Muguruza, now, joins Russia’s Maria Sharapova and Romania’s Simona Halep in the elite field. I have worked hard this last month and I am truly glad how it had paid off.

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) announced today that doubles partners and sisters Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan have qualified for this year’s BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by South Carolina Global.

US Open champion Flavia Pennetta went into yesterday’s match against Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova seventh on the Road to Singapore leaderboard.

Swiss Timea Bacsinszky kept her Singapore hopes alive with a 0-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory over Sara Errani. I wasn’t getting the results I wanted – that was a little bit frustrating.

Her semi-final started slowly as Radwanska rattled off four successive games to take the opening set, but Muguruza’s power began to have more effect in the second as she levelled with her second set point.

In the China Open men’s draw, Croat Ivo Karlovic smashed Goran Ivanisevic’s record to become the all-time leading scorer of aces – but still exited the tournament as he lost to Pablo Cuevas.