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| Coco Goff wins WTA Tour Finals. ⓒ AFP = News 1 |
(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Daehyun Moon = Coco Goff (20, USA), ranked third in the world in Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA), won the singles title at the WTA Finals (total prize money of $15.25 million).
Goff defeated China’s Zheng Qinwen (7th) in the final match of the season, the WTA Finals, which ended in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the 10th (Korean time), with a set score of 2-1 (3-6 6-4 7) after a long match lasting 3 hours and 4 minutes. -6) and achieved a comeback win.
Goff, who won the New Zealand ASB Classic, the first competition of the season, finished the season on a high note by winning the last competition.
She is the first American player to win the WTA Finals in 10 years since Serena Williams in 2014. Even in his opponent’s record against Jeong Chin-won, he maintained the upper hand with two wins.
With this win, Goff received $4.805 million (about 6.72 billion won) in prize money, the largest ever on the WTA tour.
On the other hand, Chung Chin-won, the gold medalist in the women’s singles at the Paris Olympics, aimed to become the first Asian to win the WTA Finals, but was unable to maintain the lead and unfortunately lost.
Goff, who dropped the first set first, was pulled down 1-3 in the early part of the second set.
However, Goff began to counter Jeong Chin-won’s serve and achieved a comeback with a 6-4 win.
The winner of the tight third set was also Goff. Goff, who was leading the third set game score 4-5, broke the opponent’s serve game to make it 5-5.
In a match that ended in a tiebreak, Goff led his opponent 6-0 by making a mistake, and he maintained his lead until the end to become the champion.