Radwanska wins WTA Finals title match

World No. 3 Muguruza is also into the WTA Finals doubles semifinals with her partner Carla Suarez Navarro and the pair will play in the second evening match on Saturday against Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka.

Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska won the WTA Singles Finals on Sunday (Nov 1), the biggest title of her career.

Kvitova entered the match with a 6-2 lifetime edge over Radwanska and a 17-5 career record in finals, but the rigors of a long season that included a bout with mono appeared to make hard for her in the end.

This year’s event, presented by SC Global, was the second of five editions that Singapore – the first city in the Asia-Pacific to hold the tournament – will play host to.

She added: “Petra was playing better after the first set”.

Muguruza finished the round-robin stage 3-0 and only needed to win a set against Kvitova to earn a semifinal berth.

Despite losing in the semi-finals in Singapore, Sharapova, who didn’t play a completed match between Wimbledon and the WTA Finals due to injuries, was happy with her week at the year-end championships, calling it a “breakthrough”. She’s very smart. I think she has a lot the variety on the court.

“It just means everything – it was my first final (at the tournament) and it couldn’t have been any better”, Radwanska said.

In stark contrast to her semi-final victory over Maria Sharapova, 2011 champion Kvitova made a lacklustre start with a sloppy opening service game, handing her opponent an immediate break as the Czech got off to the worst possible start. In the sixth game, it was sheer brilliance from Kvitova whose power finally overwhelmed Radwanska with a break at love to get it to 3-all, and she would consolidate the break for a 4-3 lead.

With Radwanska 3-1 up, she would once again threaten to break the lefty’s serve after she her tremendous defense forced Kvitova to hit an overhead which she dumped into the net.

Radwanska led by a set and 3-1 in the second before Kvitova settled into the match to win seven of the next eight games.

“Yeah, well, I think this is always great to hear, especially from those kind of players like Andy Murray or the other girls”, Radwanska said.

Radwanska, a finalists at the grass court major in 2012 hoped for something similar having beaten top seed Simona Halep, world number three Garbine Muguruza and Kvitova to take the title in Singapore.

Radwanska ended the match with five unforced errors the entire match, with three times the winners while Kvitova had 41 winners to 53 unforced errors.