Caroline Garcia has claimed the final spot within the semi-finals of the season-ending WTA Finals with a 4-6 6-1 7-6 (7-5) round-robin victory over Daria Kasatkina in Fort Worth, Texas.
The sixth-ranked Frenchwoman grew to become the primary in 30 matches this season to beat Kasatkina after dropping the primary set to the world No.8.
A tense third set that included a nine-deuce sport by which Kasatkina lastly held serve for a 5-4 lead ended within the tiebreaker when a scrambling Kasatkina put a volley into the online.
“It was a crazy match,” Garcia stated after two hours, 27 minutes of principally battling from the baseline. “It was the best match of the group.”
Garcia and Kasatkina performed the winner-take-all match after each misplaced to top-ranked Iga Swiatek and beat 18-year-old American Coco Gauff in group play.
Swiatek, the US Open and French Open winner this yr, had already clinched the highest spot within the group.
Fifth-ranked Maria Sakkari and No. 7 Aryna Sabalenka are the opposite singles semi-final qualifiers from the eight-player discipline on the indoor laborious court docket at Dickies Arena.
Garcia has reached the semi-finals in each her WTA Finals appearances. The first was in 2017.
