Rising star Muguruza makes WTA Finals at China Open

But the tournament was hit by the late withdrawal of Muguruza, who told organisers she had injured her ankle during her 7-5, 6-4 victory over Switzerland’s Timea Bacsinszky in the China Open final in Beijing last night.

The 22-year-old, who was beaten in the final of last week’s Wuhan Open by Venus Williams, revealed her delight at securing her maiden title of the season and vowed to come back and defend her crown at the event in 12 months’ time.

Considering Muguruza’s solid form for the past few weeks, the head to head and their respective playing styles, I predict Muguruza will finally win a Premier level title. “Tough match in general, but I think I played well”, Nadal said.

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on Thursday, announced that Garbiñe Muguruza has qualified for this year’s BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by South Carolina Global.

The Spanish tennis player was down 2-5 in the first set to Bacsinszky, the world No. 17, but she rallied and mounted an epic comeback.

“The scoreline, especially in the first set, doesn’t indicate the real battle that we had on the court”, Djokovic said.

Forced to the corner, Muguruza fought back strongly and won five straight games.

In addition to clinching her spot at the WTA Finals this week, Muguruza will rise to No. 4 in the world and sit just one point behind Maria Sharapova in the rankings. But I’m happy you could all make it. I love you guys – you’re an awesome crowd.

Bacsinszky said: ‘When someone was talking to me about the top-10, I was like “yeah, yeah, top-10 is over there, it’s far”.

“There’s only three more (players) in front of me”.

The Russian would grab the second set to force a decider, but in the final frame, it would be all Ivanovic, as the heavy forehand victor gives her the match as she advances to the quarter-finals. “This is very important for me, to have somebody knows what I have to do and what I don’t have to do”.