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Ace Ventura


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Yeah, the WTA confirmed her on Monday.

It's Bencic vs Flipkens next for a place in the SF. Bertens has to come through Kanepi and then Sevastova/Mladenovic to potentially set up that huge semi final.

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Bertens doing a Bencic, 1-4 down in the final set against Kanepi, recovers to take it 7-5.

QFs:
BERTENS vs Mladenovic
BENCIC vs Flipkens

Winners meet in the semi final.

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So, Bertens lost, Bencic is losing early stages. Bencic needs to reach final doesnt she, to overtake Bertens?

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JonH comes home wrote:

So, Bertens lost, Bencic is losing early stages. Bencic needs to reach final doesnt she, to overtake Bertens?

Yep, Bencic saved a couple of SPs on Flipkens serve, but came through in the end in 2.

If Bencic beats Mladenovic tomorrow she makes the finals, if she loses Serena gets in, and if Serena officially withdraws as most expect, Bertens would get in.

Mladenovic leads the H2H 3-1 and has won the last 3, but you'd still rather be Bencic and have it in your own hands.



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Bencic came through after a tough first set, so one more win away now, and playing Mladenovic who of course beat Bertens. Queen Maker in Chief

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I think it's all pretty hypothetical. I'd be astonished if Williams plays!

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telstar wrote:

I think it's all pretty hypothetical. I'd be astonished if Williams plays!

 I think though that 7 players are qualified and currently there is just one spot for grabs, between Williams, Bertens and Bencic. Bencic is the only one running and assuming Williams does indeed not play, as is almost certain, then Bencic still has to top Bertens, so her remaining matches in Moscow do have a lot riding on them



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Yes, as Ace has indicated, Bencic has to win her SF to overtake Bertens ( and no doubt incidentally Williams ) and take the 8th available finals spot.

Currently :

8. S Williams 3935
9. K Bertens 3870
10. B Bencic 3835 ( 3955 if she wins her SF )



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Delighted for Bencic, beats Mladenovic to secure the 8th and final spot at Shenzhen, so that's Barty, Pliskova, Osaka, Halep, Andreescu, Kvitova, Svitolina and Bencic.

Bertens will be first alt, and probably Kenin second. Bertens finished 9th last year but got in because of a Halep injury, so there may be that backdoor entry open to her again, as Halep seems to have been struggling for a few weeks, but hopefully she is fine, and it's the 8 best scoring players competing.

IMO one of the best line ups for a while.

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Ace Ventura wrote:

Delighted for Bencic, beats Mladenovic to secure the 8th and final spot at Shenzhen, so that's Barty, Pliskova, Osaka, Halep, Andreescu, Kvitova, Svitolina and Bencic.

Bertens will be first alt, and probably Kenin second. Bertens finished 9th last year but got in because of a Halep injury, so there may be that backdoor entry open to her again, as Halep seems to have been struggling for a few weeks, but hopefully she is fine, and it's the 8 best scoring players competing.

IMO one of the best line ups for a while.

 assuming they all play, it is a good line up - and they have a weeks gap this year as well, which hasnt always been  the case. 

 



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According to wiki, the Elite Trophy field starting Tuesday is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_WTA_Elite_Trophy



Bertens
Kenin
Keys
Sabalenka
Martic
Mertens
Riske
Vekic
Sakkari
Yastremska
Zheng

these below seem to be unknown as Goerges and Pavlyuchenkova are still playing in this weeks events.

Muchova
Sevastova
Goerges
Pavlyuchnkova



-- Edited by JonH comes home on Saturday 19th of October 2019 10:12:34 PM

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Not that it matters for the finals line-up but Bencic ended up winning the Moscow Premier title ( beating Pavlyuchenkova in the final ) to overtake Svitolina into race #7 and WR 7 with last year's WTA finals and Elite Trophy points dropping out the rankings so that for most top players their race and rankings points and positions have now converged.

WR 7 matches Bencic's CH from February 2016 when still an 18 yo.

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The draw has been made for the WTA Tour Finals - groups are called Red and Purple, anyone know relevance of that, is it the sponsors colours?

Red Group

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Ashleigh Barty
3
Naomi Osaka
6
Petra Kvitova
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Belinda Bencic

Purple Group

2
Karolina Pliskova
4
Bianca Andreescu
5
Simona Halep
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Elina Svitolina

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Was going to do a seperate thread for this, but may as well use this one. Red looks stronger, especially if Halep isn't firing on all cylinders.

I'd imagine red would represent the Chinese flag, and purple would recommend the main sponsor Shiseido, but could be wrong. It was red and white in Singapore to represent their flag.

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I hadnt really clocked this is the biggest ever winners prize money in tennis history, men or women.

Good to see the WTA getting ahead of the men for a change. An eye watering $4.75m dollars to an undefeated winner.

Good set of players, great to see them all playing this week (we sometimes get dropouts of these season ending events)

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