Riyadh: Aryna Sabalenka registered her second consecutive win in the group stage and entered the semi-finals of the WTA Finals tennis tournament being played between the world’s top eight players. Top seed Sabalenka defeated Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 7-5.
He made a good start in the first set by taking a 4-0 lead and then saved two set points in the second set to ensure his place in the last four. Sabalenka will face Elena Rybakina, who has already been eliminated from the race for the semi-finals, in her final league match of the group on Wednesday.
By winning the last match of the group stage of this tournament, which is being played on a round robin basis, she will ensure the number one ranking at the end of the year for the first time in her career. Sabalenka has won 22 of her last 23 matches and has become champion in three of the last four tournaments.
In another match in the Purple Group, Zheng Qianwen kept her chances of reaching the semi-finals alive by defeating Rybakina 7-6(4) 3-6, 6-1.
