WTA Finals 2021: Garbine Muguruza beats Anett Kontaveit to win season-ending tournament..
Garbine Muguruza beat Anett Kontaveit in straight sets to win her first WTA Finals 2021 title in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Sixth seed Muguruza won 6-3 7-5 to become the first Spaniard to win the season-ending finals, beating Estonian eighth seed Kontaveit for the second time this week.
The Spaniard made three breaks in the first set. Kontaveit played better in the second and got a break in the ninth game, but Muguruza broke her next two serves to win.
Earlier, Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova defeated Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens 6-3, 6-4 to win the doubles title undefeated.
Krejcikova and Siniakova won at Roland Garros, Madrid, and the Tokyo Olympics.
Garbine Muguruza wins 2021 WTA Finals for first time, Best stats.
1 -- Muguruza became the oldest champion at 28 since Serena Williams in 2014, and finishes the season at No. 3 in the rankings, her best performance since 2017, when she was No. 1.
2 -- Muguruza became the first Spaniard to win the WTA Finals. The first person she celebrated with was coach Conchita Martinez.
3 -- Muguruza, The new champion won back-to-back titles in Monterrey in northern Mexico in 2018 and 2019, and her past successes drove her to qualify for the WTA Finals.
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