While Philippine tennis has received a shot in the arm with the rise of Alex Eala and Filipino-Canadian Leylah Fernandez, local tennis fans will get a pre-Christmas treat in the form of the season-ending WTA Finals.
Day 3 in this competition featuring only the eight top-ranked female tennis players in the world finds World No. 1 female player Belarussian Aryna Sabalenka taking on fifth-seeded American Jessica Pegula, and fourth-ranked Russian Elena Rybakina battling eighth-seeded Greek Maria Sakkari in the group stages slated played at the Plaza Quintana Roo in Cancun, Mexico, on Wednesday, November 1.
Sabalenka is 4-1 in head-to-head matches with Pegula, who has had problems returning the Belarussian’s serves as well as getting docked points for unforced errors. In the other group of the WTA Finals that was played earlier today, Tuesday, October 31, third-ranked Coco Gauff was leading 6-0 and 1-0 against sixth-seed Ons Jabeur when play was suspended due to rain.
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