Players At WTA Finals Got Dressed To The Nines For Draw Ceremony

World No. 14 Suarez-Navarro chalked up a 6-4 7-5 win in one hour 46 minutes to keep alive her chances of obtaining one of the remaining spots in the season-ending WTA Finals in Singapore. But she was on Thursday defeated by the 18-year-old Russian, ranked 104th in the world, Efe reported.

She extended that streak to seven before Gasparyan got back on the board, but her break in the third game of the second set was as good as it got as Pavlyuchenkova cruised through. “I don’t think about Singapore at all this match”, she said. Czech player Safarova had lost in the first round in Moscow to reigning champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

Simona Halep, Garbine Muguruza, Maria Sharapova, Petra Kvitova, Agnieszka Radwanska, Angelique Kerber and Flavia Pennetta complete the singles field.

It has been a breakthrough season for Safarova in 2015 having made the final of the French Open and with her also set to play doubles next week in Singapore, the 28-year-old admits she is looking forward to making her Finals debut. The other semifinal will pit Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova against Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.

“In the last few matches with Denis [Istomin], I always experienced problems, as his style of play doesn’t suit me”, Cilic said. Eighth-seeded Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan moved into the second round with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Russia’s Andrey Rublev. France’s Lucas Pouille won his second-round match against Spain’s Daniel Gimeno-Traver 6-1, 7-6 (5).