WTA Finals singles final victory over Jeong Chin-won 2-1
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[리야드=AP/뉴시스] Coco Goff (3rd place, USA) is posing with the trophy at the top of the 2024 Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour Finals held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the 9th (local time). Goff won the championship with a 2-1 (3-6 6-4 7-6) comeback victory over Chung Chin-won (7th place, China) in the final, becoming the youngest winner of this tournament in 20 years since Maria Sharapova (Russia). 2024.11.10. |
[서울=뉴시스]Reporter Chae-Hyeon Moon = Coco Goff (USA), ranked 3rd in the tennis world, lifted the trophy in the final match of the Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour season for the first time in her life.
Goff achieved a dramatic 2-1 (3-6 6-4 7-6) comeback victory over Chung Qin-wen (7th place, China) in the singles final of the WTA Finals held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the 10th (Korean time).
Gough, who defeated the world’s best players, Iga Sibiontech (2nd, Poland) and Arina Sabalenka (1st, Belarus) to reach the finals, even defeated 2024 Paris Olympics gold medalist Chung Chin-won after a close match that lasted more than three hours. and won the championship.
This is Goff’s 9th singles victory in his career and his first WTA Finals summit.
Goff is the first American player to have his name engraved on this tournament trophy 10 years after Serena Williams in 2014.
In addition, Goff, born in 2004 and now 20 years old, was named the youngest singles champion at the WTA Finals since Maria Sharapova (Russia), who was 17 years old at the time of her birth in 2004.
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[리야드=AP/뉴시스] Coco Goff (3rd place, USA) is playing against Zheng Chin-wen (7th place, China) in the final of the 2024 Women’s Professional Tennis (WTA) Tour Finals held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on the 9th (local time). Goff came from behind to win 2-1 (3-6 6-4 7-6) and became the youngest winner in 20 years since Maria Sharapova (Russia). 2024.11.10. |
Goff, who won that day, took home the tournament trophy and a prize money of about 4.805 million dollars (about 6.725 billion won). This is the largest prize money in women’s sports history.
After losing the first set to Chung Chin-won in the final that day, Goff seemed to be far from winning the second set, falling behind 3-5, but after coming back from the second set, he won the third set after a tiebreak and took the trophy.
After the match, Goff said, “It was a really great match. Chung Chin-won showed unbelievable tennis, but I just didn’t give up and did my best to hold on.”
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