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BNP PARIBAS WTA FINALS SINGAPORE PRESENTED BY SC GLOBAL MATCH NOTES - SINGAPORE - OCTOBER 21 – 28, 2018 - $7,000,000

WTA Finals Information: www.wtafinals.com l @WTAFinalsSG l facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG l #WTAFinals WTA Information: www.wtatennis.com l @WTA l facebook.com/WTA Communications Staff: Catherine Sneddon ([email protected]), Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Alex Prior ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), DAY EIGHT (OCTOBER 28) – FINAL - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM

4pm start

[1] BARBORA KREJCIKOVA (CZE #1)/KATERINA SINIAKOVA (CZE #1) vs. [2] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #3)/KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #3) Babos/Mladenovic lead 1-0

Not before 7.30pm

[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) Stephens leads 2-1

ROUND ROBIN FINAL STANDINGS

WHITE GROUP RED GROUP

PLAYER MATCH W-L PCT SETS

W-L PCT GAMES W-L PCT PLAYER MATCH

W-L PCT SETS W-L PCT GAMES

W-L PCT

[6] SVITOLINA 3-0 1.000 6-2 .750 44-33 .571 [5] STEPHENS 3-0 1.000 6-2 .750 44-33 .571 [7] PLISKOVA 2-1 .666 5-2 .714 36-27 .571 [8] BERTENS 2-1 .666 5-3 .625 28-28 .500 [2] WOZNIACKI 1-2 .333 3-5 .375 37-43 .463 [1] KERBER 1-2 .333 3-5 .375 36-40 .473 [4] KVITOVA 0-3 .000 1-6 .143 26-40 .394 [3] OSAKA 0-3 .000 2-6 .250 27-34 .443 Svitolina d. Kvitova 6-3 6-3 Stephens d. Osaka 7-5 4-6 6-1 Pliskova d. Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 Bertens d. Kerber 1-6 6-3 6-4 Wozniacki d. Kvitova 7-5 3-6 6-2 Kerber d. Osaka 6-4 5-7 6-4 Svitolina d. Pliskova 6-3 2-6 6-3 Stephens d. Bertens 7-6(4) 2-6 6-3 Pliskova d. Kvitova 6-3 6-4 Bertens d. Osaka 6-3 (via ret.) Svitolina d. Wozniacki 5-7 7-5 6-3 Stephens d. Kerber 6-3 6-4 ABOUT THE FINALISTS PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

W-L YTD

PRIZE $ YTD MD

W/L YTD

TITLES CAREER PRIZE $

CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES

[5] Sloane Stephens 6 USA 25 4-0 3,868,099 37-18 1 12,176,203 269-176 6 [6] Elina Svitolina 7 UKR 24 5-2 2,863,163 43-15 3 10,234,541 328-169 12

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ON THIS DAY October 28, 2017 Venus Williams defeated Caroline Garcia in the semifinals, becoming the oldest woman to reach the title match at the WTA Finals. The 37-year-old recovered from a set down to defeat Garcia, which also marked the first time she had made the final at the season-ending event since 2009 WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. RANKING PROJECTIONS

• Having reached the final, Sloane Stephens is projected to rise to World No.4, unless Elina Svitolina wins the title, in which case she will rise to No.5. Stephens cannot climb any higher than No.4, even with the title

• Elina Svitolina is projected to rise to World No.6 (up from No.7) having reached the final, and can rise as high as No.4 with the title

• Simona Halep will finish as the WTA Year-End World No.1 for the second successive season • Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova have secured the WTA Year-End No.1 ranking spot in doubles

QUICK HITS

• Elina Svitolina has reached the biggest final of her career – prior to the WTA Finals this year, she had won four titles from four finals at WTA Premier-5 events, at 2017 Dubai, 2017 Toronto and 2017-18 Rome

• Having reached the final, Svitolina is guaranteed a prize money cheque of $1.2m USD – the biggest pay day of her career, bettering that of the $651,347 USD she won in Dubai earlier this year

• Should Svitolina lift the title today, it would be the second year in a row the No.6 seed has won the title, after Caroline Wozanicki in 2017

• Svitolina has been involved in the two longest matches at the WTA Finals this season – her semifinal win against Kiki Bertens lasted 2 hours and 38 minutes, followed by her round robin win against Caroline Wozniacki, at 2 hours and 35 minutes

• Svitolina’s record in tour-level finals stands at 12-2. She has won her past eight matches at this stage, with her last defeat coming against Petra Kvitova at 2016 Zhuhai

• Stephens’ record in tour-level finals stands at 6-2. 2018 marks the first season she has reached four finals in a year, at Miami, Roland Garros, Montreal and now the WTA Finals (she previously eached three in 2016, at Auckland, Acapulco, Charleston, winning all three)

• Svitolina’s eight titles over the last two seasons is the most on the WTA Tour • There were seven three-set matches in the round robin stage at this year’s 2018 WTA Finals, the most since the

format was adapted in 2003 – the previous most was six in 2009. Meanwhile there were five three-set matches in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2013

• With both matches going the distance yesterday, it was the fist time both semifinal matches had gone to three sets at the WTA Finals since 2004

• Stephens is the first American woman not named Williams into the final here since 2001 – that year Lindsay Davenport withdrew prior to the title match versus Serena





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• The last American not named Wiliams to win the WTA Finals was Davenport in 1999 • A Stephens wins would be the 19th occasion a player from the USA has won the title here. Svitolina is the only singles

player from the Ukraine to contest the WTA Finals • Overall, players from 13 different nations have won: USA (18), GER (6), BEL (5), CZE (4), YUG (3), ARG (2), AUS (2),

SUI (2), DEN (1), FRA (1), POL (1), RUS (1) and SVK (1) • This is the first time since 2003, when the round robin format was re-introduced, that none of the Top 4 seeds have

advanced to the final four at the WTA Finals • The last time there were no Top 4 seeds into the semifinals at the WTA Finals was 1994. That year in the final four,

No.7 seed Lindsay Davenport defeated No.5 seed Mary Pierce and unseeded Gabriela Sabatini defeated No.8 seed Kimiko Date

• This is the second season in a row where the WTA Finals championship match does not include any of the Top 4 seeds, after No.6 seed Caroline Wozniacki’s defeat of No.5 seed Venus Williams in 2017. Prior to last year, the last time was 2008, when No.7 Venus Williams defeated No.8 Vera Zvonareva

• The exact same seed numbers have reached the final for the second successive year • Svitolina and Stephens remained undefeated in the round robin stage, the 20th and 21st occassions a player has

posted a perfect 3-0 record. Stephens is also the first debutante to do so since Garbiñe Muguruza in 2015. Today’s final will mark the eighth time a player has posted a 3-0 record and gone on to win the title:

YEAR PLAYER RESULT 2003 Kim Clijsters Won Title (d. Mauresmo in F) 2004 Amelie Mauresmo SF (l. S.Williams) 2005 Mary Pierce R-Up (l. Mauresmo) 2006 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Henin) 2007 Justine Henin Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2007 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. Henin) 2008 Vera Zvonareva R-Up (l. V.Williams) 2008 Venus Williams Won Title (d. Zvonareva in F) 2009 Serena Williams Won Title (d. V.Williams in F) 2010 Vera Zvonareva SF (l. Wozniacki) 2011 Petra Kvitova Won Title (d. Azarenka in F) 2012 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2012 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. S.Williams) 2013 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Li) 2013 Li Na R-Up (l. S.Williams in F) 2014 Caroline Wozniacki SF (l. S.Williams) 2015 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Kvitova) 2015 Garbiñe Muguruza SF (l. A.Radwanska) 2016 Angelique Kerber R-Up (l. Cibulkova) 2018 Elina Svitolina ??? 2018 Sloane Stephens ???

• This is the first time since 2013 that both group winners posted a 3-0 record and went on to meet in the final, Serena

Williams defeated Li Na that year. As a result, Serena was the last player to go undefeated and win the WTA Finals that year

• Svitolina is the first player to defeat two Czechs in the round robin stage since Garbiñe Muguruza in 2015 ( who defeated Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova)

• Entering the WTA Finals, both Stephens (33) and Svitolina (39) had posted the lowest amount of match wins among all of the qualifiers





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FINALS HONOR ROLL [SINGLES] YEAR HOST CITY WINNERS FINALISTS SCORE 1972 Boca Raton, FL-USA [3] Chris Evert (USA) [5] Kerry Reid (AUS) 75 64 1973 Boca Raton, FL-USA [1] Chris Evert (USA) [2] Nancy Richey (USA) 63 63 1974 Los Angeles, CA-USA [3] Evonne Goolagong (AUS) [1] Chris Evert (USA) 63 64 1975 Los Angeles, CA-USA [1] Chris Evert (USA) [2] Martina Navratilova (TCH) 64 62 1976 Los Angeles, CA-USA [2] Evonne Goolagong Cawley (AUS) [1] Chris Evert (USA) 63 57 63 1977 New York, NY-USA [1] Chris Evert (USA) [3] Sue Barker (GBR) 26 61 61 1978 Oakland, CA-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (TCH) [3] Evonne Goolagong (AUS) 76 64 1979 New York, NY-USA [2] Martina Navratilova (TCH) [4] Tracy Austin (USA) 63 36 62 1980 New York, NY-USA [2] Tracy Austin (USA) [1] Martina Navratilova (TCH) 62 26 62 1981 New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [2] Andrea Jaeger (USA) 63 76(3) 1982 New York, NY-USA Sylvia Hanika (GER) [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) 16 63 64 1983 New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [2] Chris Evert (USA) 62 60 1984* New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [2] Chris Evert (USA) 63 75 61 1985 New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [5] Helena Sukova (TCH) 63 75 64 1986 Mar. New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [5] Hana Mandlikova (TCH) 62 60 36 61 1986 Nov. New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Navratilova (USA) [2] Steffi Graf (GER) 76(6) 63 62 1987 New York, NY-USA [1] Steffi Graf (GER) [6] Gabriela Sabatini (ARG) 46 64 60 64 1988 New York, NY-USA [4] Gabriela Sabatini (ARG) [5] Pam Shriver (USA) 75 62 62 1989 New York, NY-USA [1] Steffi Graf (GER) [2] Martina Navratilova (USA) 64 75 26 62 1990 New York, NY-USA [2] Monica Seles (YUG) [4] Gabriela Sabatini (ARG) 64 57 36 64 62 1991 New York, NY-USA [1] Monica Seles (YUG) [4] Martina Navratilova (USA) 64 36 75 60 1992 New York, NY-USA [1] Monica Seles (YUG) [4] Martina Navratilova (USA) 75 63 61 1993 New York, NY-USA [1] Steffi Graf (GER) [2] Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) 61 64 36 61 1994 New York, NY-USA Gabriela Sabatini (ARG) [7] Lindsay Davenport (USA) 63 62 64 1995 New York, NY-USA [1] Steffi Graf (GER) Anke Huber (GER) 61 26 61 46 63 1996 New York, NY-USA [1] Steffi Graf (GER) [7] Martina Hingis (SUI) 63 46 60 46 60 1997 New York, NY-USA [2] Jana Novotna (CZE) [7] Mary Pierce (FRA) 76(4) 62 63 1998 New York, NY-USA [2] Martina Hingis (SUI) [1] Lindsay Davenport (USA) 75 64 46 62 1999** New York, NY-USA [2] Lindsay Davenport (USA) [1] Martina Hingis (SUI) 64 62 2000 New York, NY-USA [1] Martina Hingis (SUI) [3] Monica Seles (USA) 67(5) 64 64 2001 Munich, GER [7] Serena Williams (USA) [2] Lindsay Davenport (USA) Walkover 2002 Los Angeles, CA-USA [5] Kim Clijsters (BEL) [1] Serena Williams (USA) 75 63 2003 Los Angeles, CA-USA [1] Kim Clijsters (BEL) [4] Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) 62 60 2004 Los Angeles, CA-USA [6] Maria Sharapova (RUS) [7] Serena Williams (USA) 46 62 64 2005 Los Angeles, CA-USA [4] Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) [5] Mary Pierce (FRA) 57 76(3) 64 2006 Madrid, ESP [3] Justine Henin (BEL) [1] Amélie Mauresmo (FRA) 64 63 2007 Madrid, ESP [1] Justine Henin (BEL) [6] Maria Sharapova (RUS) 57 75 63 2008 Doha, QAT [7] Venus Williams (USA) [8] Vera Zvonareva (RUS) 67(5) 60 62 2009 Doha, QAT [2] Serena Williams (USA) [7] Venus Williams (USA) 62 76(4) 2010 Doha, QAT [3] Kim Clijsters (BEL) [1] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) 63 57 63 2011 Istanbul, TUR [3] Petra Kvitova (CZE) [4] Victoria Azarenka (BLR) 75 46 63 2012 Istanbul, TUR [3] Serena Williams (USA) [2] Maria Sharapova (RUS) 64 63 2013 Istanbul, TUR [1] Serena Williams (USA) [4] Li Na (CHN) 26 63 60 2014 Singapore, SIN [1] Serena Williams (USA) [4] Simona Halep (ROU) 63 60 2015 Singapore, SIN [5] Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) [4] Petra Kvitova (CZE) 62 46 63 2016 Singapore, SIN [7] Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) [1] Angelique Kerber (GER) 63 64 2017 Singapore, SIN [6] Caroline Wozniacki (DEN) [5] Venus Williams (USA) 64 64 * First year the final was best-of-five sets. ** Returned to best-of-three sets final.





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FINALS HONOR ROLL [DOUBLES] YEAR HOST CITY WINNERS FINALISTS SCORE

1972 Boca Raton, FL-USA No doubles played

1973 Boca Raton, FL-USA Casals (USA)/Court (AUS) Durr (FRA)/Stove (NED) 62 64

1974 Los Angeles, CA-USA BJ King/Casals (USA) Durr (FRA)/Stove (NED) 61 67(2-5) 75

1975 Los Angeles, CA-USA No doubles played

1976 Los Angeles, CA-USA No doubles played

1977 New York, NY-USA No doubles played

1978 Oakland, CA-USA No doubles played

1979 New York, NY-USA Durr (FRA)/Stove (NED) Barker (GBR)/Kiyomura (USA) 64 62

1980 New York, NY-USA BJ King (USA)/Navratilova (TCH) Casals (USA)/Turnbull (AUS) 63 46 63

1981 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Potter/ Walsh (USA) 60 76(6)

1982 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Jordan/A. Smith (USA) 64 63

1983 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Kohde-Kilsch/Pfaff (GER) 75 62

1984* New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Durie (GBR)/Kiyomura (USA) 63 61

1985 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Kohde-Kilsch (GER)/Sukova (TCH) 67(4) 64 76(5)

1986 Mar. New York, NY-USA Mandlikova (TCH)/Turnbull (AUS) Kohde-Kilsch (GER)/Sukova (TCH) 64 67(4) 63

1986 Nov. New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Kohde-Kilsch (GER)/Sukova (TCH) 76(1) 63

1987 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Kohde-Kilsch (GER)/Sukova (TCH) 61 61

1988 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Neiland/Zvereva (USSR) 63 64

1989 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Neiland/Zvereva (USSR) 63 62

1990 New York, NY-USA Jordan (USA)/Smylie (AUS) Paz (ARG)/Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) 76(4) 64

1991 New York, NY-USA Navratilova/Shriver (USA) Fernandez (USA)/Novotna (CZE) 46 75 64

1992 New York, NY-USA Sánchez-Vicario (ESP)/Sukova (CZE) Neiland (USSR)/Novotna (CZE) 76(4) 61

1993 New York, NY-USA G. Fernandez (USA)/Zvereva (BLR) Neiland (LAT)/Novotna (CZE) 63 75

1994 New York, NY-USA G. Fernandez (USA)/Zvereva (BLR) Novotna (CZE)/Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) 63 67(4) 63

1995 New York, NY-USA Novotna (CZE)/Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) G. Fernandez (USA)/Zvereva (BLR) 62 61

1996 New York, NY-USA Davenport/MJ Fernandez (USA) Novotna (CZE)/Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) 63 62

1997 New York, NY-USA Davenport (USA)/Novotna (CZE) Fusai/Tauziat (FRA) 67(5) 63 62

1998 New York, NY-USA Davenport (USA)/Zvereva (BLR) Fusai/Tauziat (FRA) 67(6) 75 63

1999** New York, NY-USA Hingis (SUI)/Kournikova (RUS) Neiland (LAT)/Sánchez-Vicario (ESP) 64 64

2000 New York, NY-USA Hingis (SUI)/Kournikova (RUS) Arendt (USA)/Bollegraf (NED) 62 63

2001 Munich, GER Raymond (USA)/Stubbs (AUS) Black (ZIM)/Likhovtseva (RUS) 75 36 63

2002 Los Angeles, CA-USA Dementieva (RUS)/Husarova (SVK) Black (ZIM)/Likhovtseva (RUS) 46 64 63

2003 Los Angeles, CA-USA Ruano Pascual (ESP)/Suárez (ARG) Clijsters (BEL)/Sugiyama (JPN) 64 36 63

2004 Los Angeles, CA-USA Petrova (RUS)/Shaughnessy (USA) Black (ZIM)/Stubbs (AUS) 75 62

2005 Los Angeles, CA-USA Raymond (USA)/Stosur (AUS) Black (ZIM)/Stubbs (AUS) 67(5) 75 64

2006 Madrid, ESP Raymond (USA)/Stosur (AUS) Black (ZIM)/Stubbs (AUS) 36 63 63

2007 Madrid, ESP Black (ZIM)/L.Huber (USA) Srebotnik (SLO)/Sugiyama (JPN) 57 63 108

2008 Doha, QAT Black (ZIM)/L.Huber (USA) Peschke (CZE)/Stubbs (AUS) 61 75

2009 Doha, QAT Martinez Sanchez/Llagostera Vives (ESP) Black (ZIM)/L. Huber (USA) 76(0) 57 107

2010 Doha, QAT Dulko (ARG)/Pennetta (ITA) Peschke (CZE)/Srebotnik (SLO) 75 64

2011 Istanbul, TUR Huber/Raymond (USA) Peschke (CZE)/Srebotnik (SLO) 64 64

2012 Istanbul, TUR Kirilenko/Petrova (RUS) Hlavackova/Hradecka (CZE) 61 64

2013 Istanbul, TUR Hsieh(TPE)/Peng(CHN) Makarova/Vesnina(RUS) 64 75

2014 Singapore, SIN Black (ZIM)/Mirza (IND) Hsieh (TPE)/Peng (CHN) 61 60

2015 Singapore, SIN Hingis (SUI)/Mirza (IND) Muguruza (ESP)/Suarez Navarro (ESP) 63 60

2016 Singapore, SIN Makarova (RUS)/Vesnina (RUS) Mattek-Sands (USA)/Safarova (CZE) 76(5) 63

2017 Singapore, SIN Babos (HUN)/Sestini Hlavackova (CZE) Bertens (NED)/Larsson (SWE) 46 64 10-5




WTA FINALS - SINGAPORE | Oct 21 - Oct 28, 2018 | $7,000,000 | CH MATCH NOTES

[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)

Head to Head: SLOANE STEPHENS leads 2-1

2018 HARD O SF SLOANE STEPHENS 99 mins 6-3 6-3 MONTREAL 2014 CLAY O R2 ELINA SVITOLINA 86 mins 6-4 6-4 CHARLESTON 2014 HARD O R3 SLOANE STEPHENS 78 mins 7-5 6-4 AUSTRALIAN OPEN

SLOANE STEPHENS 6 6

20-03-1993 (25) $3,868,099 $12,176,203

1 / 6 0 / 0

37-18 / 196-130 11-8 / 63-43 4-8 / 48-27

ELINA SVITOLINA 7 7

12-09-1994 (24) $2,877,247 $10,248,625

3 / 12 0 / 2 5-2

43-15 / 225-124 13-6 / 69-41 3-7 / 44-34

WTA RANKING

PORSCHE RACE TO SINGAPORE LEADERBOARD DATE OF BIRTH (AGE)

YTD PRIZE MONEY CAREER PRIZE MONEY

SINGLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER) DOUBLES TITLES (YTD / CAREER)

WTA FINALS W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER 3-SET W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER TIE-BREAK W-L (MD) *

YTD / CAREER HARD W-L (MD) * YTD / CAREER Left Hander W-L (MD) *

4-0

32-10 / 162-83 25-12 / 129-85 4-0 / 16-5 6-3 / 20-21

8-4 / 17-32 8-3 / 28-32 13-8 / 35-53 13-6 / 46-61

YTD / CAREER TOP 10 W-L (MD & Q) * YTD / CAREER TOP 20 W-L (MD & Q) *

YTD / CAREER TOP 5 W-L (MD & Q) * 5-2 / 9-21 3-2 / 16-15

* Updated entering Final at 2018 WTA Finals

[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6)

SF: d. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) 0-6,6-4,6-1 (1h55)

RR: d. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) 7-6(4),2-6,6-3 (2h20)

RR: d. [1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) 6-3,6-3 (1h40)

RR: d. [3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4) 7-5,4-6,6-1 (2h24)

ROAD TO THE FINAL

vs.

[6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)

SF: d. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) 7-5,6-7(5),6-4 (2h38)

RR: d. [2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) 5-7,7-5,6-3 (2h35)

RR: d. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) 6-3,2-6,6-3 (1h54)

RR: d. [4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #7) 6-3,6-3 (1h28)

Total games: 100 Won/lost: 56-44 Sets won/lost: 8-3 Total time on court: 8h19 Average time on court: 2h05 Average rank of opponent: 6


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STEPHENS

WTA Finals

• Has reached the title match on her debut appearance at the WTA Finals

• Is the tenth player to reach the final on her first appearance at the season-ending event, and bidding to be fifth player to

win the title, after S.Williams (2001), Sharapova (2004), Kvitova (2011) and Cibulkova (2016)

• Was one of three debutantes this year, the fourth year in a row there have been three players making their debuts

• Her record in tour-level finals stands at 6-2, and 2018 marks the first time she has reached four finals in a season (reached

three in 2016, at Auckland, Acapulco, Charleston, winning all three)

• Is 1-2 in finals this season, winning Miami (d. Ostapenko in F) and losing at Roland Garros and Montreal (l. Halep in both

Fs)

• Has won her first six finals before falling at Roland Garros

• Is the first American woman not named Williams into the final here since 2001 – that year Davenport withdrew prior to the

match versus S.Williams

• The last American not named Williams to win the WTA Finals was Davenport in 1999

• Is second successive American to reach the WTA Finals championship match, after V.Williams in 2017

• A Stephens wins would be the 19th occasion a player from the USA has won the title here

• The last No.5 seed to win the WTA Finals was A.Radwanska in 2015 (d. Kvitova in F)

• Posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin stage this week, the 21st occasion this has happened

• With Svitolina also posting a 3-0 record, it’s the first time since 2015 two players topped their groups without losing a

match (Muguruza, Sharapova). She is also the first debutante to record a perfect 3-0 record since Muguruza in 2015

• Today’s match is the first time since 2013 that both group winners posted a 3-0 record and went on to meet in the final,

S.Williams defating Li Na that year.

• Today will mark the eighth occasions a player has gone on to win the WTA Finals undefeated

• Secured qualification during weeks of Hong Kong, Linz and Tianjin (did not play that week however results fell in her favor).

Was sixth player to qualify

• Was second alternate in 2013 but did not play

• One of three players to contest Moscow last week (also Ka.Pliskova and Bertens)


ELINA SVITOLINA 2017

R1 W - SIMONA HALEP (ROU #1) 6-3 6-4

R1 L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #6) 6-2 6-0

R1 L - CAROLINE GARCIA (FRA #8) 6-7(7) 6-3 7-5


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WTA FINALS Tournament History

• This week in Singapore, defeated No.4 Osaka, No.2 Kerber and No.9 Bertens in RR stage, before dispatching No.8

Ka.Pliskova in SF

• Wins take record in 2018 vs. Top 5 players to 5-2 and vs. Top 10 players to 8-4

• Win against No.2 Kerber also matched best-win-by-ranking of career – also against No.2 Kerber at 2016 Charleston (via

ret.)

• Faces No.7 Svitolina today – is 8-1 vs. Top 10 players on hard courts this season, sole loss coming to World No.1 Halep at

Montreal

• Match vs. Bertens was first time two debutantes have reached the SFs in the same year since 2007 (Ivanovic and

Chakvetadze)

• Entering the WTA Finals, owned the least amount of wins across the season to qualify (33 at beginning of Singapore)

• With her this week in Singapore is Sylvester Black (coach), Sybil Smith (mother), John Tobias (agent) and Paulina (friend)

• Regular coach Kamau Murray not here this week – President Clinton is visiting his coaching academy in Chicago

Season

• Prior to 2018 WTA Finals, had reached three finals this season, winning one title, at Miami (d. Ostapenko in F). Also

reached second Grand Slam final of career, finishing R-Up at Roland Garros, and contested title-match at Montréal, losing

to World No.1 Halep both times

• Career record in singles finals now stands at 6-2

• After loss to Halep, record against reigning No.1s slips to 0-8, losing to Wozniacki (2011 Indian Wells), Azarenka (2013 Australian Open), S.Williams (2013 US Open, 2015 Indian Wells, 2015 Madrid, 2015 Roland Garros) and Halep (2018 Roland Garros and 2018 Montreal)

• Made Top 10 debut after Miami triumph, at No.9, going on to post a career-high ranking of No.3 over the summer (July 16, 2018)

• Helped make history in Miami as the USA provided the winners in all four events (Stephens, Vandeweghe w/Barty, Isner and Bryan brothers)

• In Grand Slam play, aside from Roland Garros, fell 1r at Australian Open (l. Zhang) and Wimbledon (l. Vekic) and made QF at US Open (as defending champion, l. Sevastova)

• Enjoyed a QF run at Acapulco (d. Parmentier and Rus, l. eventual R-Up Voegele)

• Posted R16 showing at Indian Wells (l. eventual R-Up Kasatkina), Madrid (l. Ka.Pliskova), Rome (l. Garcia), Cincinnati (l.

Mertens) and Beijing (l. Cibulkova)

• Had 2r exits at Washington DC (l. Petkovic) and Moscow (after 1r bye, l. eventual R-Up Jabeur)

• 1r exits at Sydney (l. Giorgi), Nürnberg (as WC, l. Putintseva), Stuttgart (l. Vandeweghe), Tokyo [PPO] (l. Vekic) and Wuhan (l. Kontaveit)

• Won both singles rubbers (d. Mladenovic and Parmentier) during defending champion USA’s 3-2 Fed Cup semifinal win over France. Will face Czech Republic in November’s final

• Withdrew from Brisbane w/left knee injury

Career

• Posted second-best year-end finish at No.13 in 2017, one off career-high of No.12 in 2013

• Won her maiden Grand Slam title at 2017 US Open, d. Keys 6-3 6-0 to become the fifth unseeded player to win a major in the Open Era

• Voted 2017 WTA Comeback Player of the Year. Only returned to action at 2017 Wimbledon (1r) following 11 months on sidelines with foot injury, having had surgery in January

• After 1r loss at Washington DC, went 15-2 through US Open, also making back-to-back SFs at Toronto and Cincinnati

• Prior to 2017 Wimbledon, last match came at 2016 Rio Olympics

• Won three titles in 2016, at Auckland, Acapulco and Premier-level Charleston. Won maiden singles title in first final contested at 2015 Washington, DC (d. Pavlyuchenkova in F)

• Owns seven wins vs. Top 5 players: No.5 Svitolina (2018 Montréal), No.5 Ostapenko (2018 Miami), No.3 Muguruza (2018 Miami), No.3 Kerber (2017 Toronto), No.2 Kerber (2016 Charleston via ret. w/viral illness), No.3 Sharapova (2013 Cincinnati) and No.3 S. Williams (2013 Australian Open)

• At No.97 was youngest player in year-end Top 100 in 2011; and after a phenomenal sophomore season, reached No.38 and was the youngest player, and the only teenager, in the year-end Top 50 in 2012

• Made Top 20 debut on January 29, 2013 and went on to win a career-best 39 matches across the season

• First WTA qualifying at 2008 Miami. First WTA main draw at 2010 Indian Wells (as qualifier, No.747, fell 2r, l. Zvonareva)

• Won one singles title and one doubles title on ITF Circuit

Grand Slam History

• 2018 US Open marked 27th Grand Slam main draw appearance

• Enjoyed fairytale run at 2017 US Open, lifting maiden Grand Slam title at Flushing Meadows (d. Keys in F). At No.83, is second-lowest ranked Grand Slam champion (since inception of computer rankings in 1975) and 14th unseeded player to advance to a Grand Slam final in the Open Era, and only fifth unseeded champion

• Was one of four American women to reach SF at 2017 Flushing Meadows (also Keys, Vandeweghe and V.Williams) – the sixth time in the Open Era that four Americans have contested the final four at a major

• Also R-Up at 2018 Roland Garros (l. Halep)

• Prior to 2017 US Open triumph, best result to date across all majors was reaching SF at 2013 Australian Open (d. S.Williams in QF, l. eventual champion Azarenka)

• Along with Makarova, is one of only two players who’ve never held the No.1 ranking, but have managed to beat both V.Williams (2015 Roland Garros and 2017 US Open) and S.Williams (whom she defeated at 2013 Australian Open) at Grand Slam level

• Also just the second American (after Davenport) to defeat both Williams sisters in Grand Slam match play

• Advanced to SF at 2013 Australian Open (d. Halep, Mladenovic and S.Williams en route) and QF at 2013 Wimbledon (l. eventual champion Bartoli)

• Won junior doubles titles at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and US Open in 2010 (all w/Babos)

Other Information

• Mother is Sybil Smith a former collegiate swimmer at Boston University and late father, John Stephens, was an NFL player in 1980s and 1990s; brother is Shawn Farrell

• Started playing tennis at the age of nine, at the Sierra Sport and Racquet Club, in Fresno, California. Two years later relocated from Fresno to Boca Raton, Florida, where she began training at the Evert Tennis Academy before moving to Nick Saviano High Performance Tennis Academy

• Coached by Kamau Murray, who is not in Singapore this week (started working together in January 2016). Worked with Nick Saviano in 2015

SVITOLINA

WTA Finals

• Has reached the biggest final of her career today, making the championship match at the WTA Finals on her second

appearance in Singapore

• Appearance in today’s final at season-ending event betters that of contesting finals at WTA Premier-5 level

tournaments at 2017 Dubai, 2017 Toronto and 2017-18 Rome

• Record in tour-level finals stands at 12-2. Has won her past eight matches at this stage, with last defeat coming against

Kvitova at 2016 Zhuhai

• Her eight titles over the last two seasons is the most on the WTA Tour

• Guaranteed a prize money cheque of $1.2m USD, and $2.360m USD if she wins the title – either are the biggest pay

day of her career, bettering that of the $651,347 USD she won in Dubai earlier this year

• A win would make it the second year in a row the No.6 seed has won the title, after Wozanicki in 2017

• Has been involved in the two longest matches at the WTA Finals this season – SF win against Bertens lasted 2 hours

and 38 minutes, followed by her RR win against Wozniacki, at 2 hours and 35 minutes

• Making second consecutive appearance at WTA Finals, becoming in 2017 the first Ukrainian woman to qualify for the

season-ending tournament in singles. Her countrywoman Natalia Medvedeva contested the doubles format in 1990

• On debut appearance last year, went 1-2 in RR stage and failed to progress. However did defeat World No.1 Halep in

straight sets

• At 2017 WTA Finals was in contention to ascend to be the new World No.1, had she won the title

• This year, secured qualification for Singapore last week (specifically when Bertens failed to reach SF in Moscow)

• Entered 2018 WTA Finals with 39 wins this season (second-lowest amount of wins of all this year’s qualifiers entering

the event, after Stephens who posted 33 wins)

• Posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin stage, the 20th occasion this has happened (Stephens also achieving

the feat a day later, marking the 21st occasion)

• With Stephens also posting a 3-0 record, it’s the first time since 2015 two players won their groups without losing a

match (Muguruza, Sharapova)

• Bidding to be the eighth player to go undefeated en route to the WTA Finals crown, and first since S.Williams in 2013

• This is the first time since 2013 that both group winners posted a 3-0 record and went on to meet in the final, Serena

Williams defeating Li Na that year. As a result, Serena was the last player to go undefeated and win the WTA Finals

• This week en route to final has posted wins over No.5 Kvitova (Sunday), No.8 Ka. Pliskova (Tuesday ) and No.3

Wozniacki (Thursday) in the RR stage, before ousting No.9 Bertens in SF (Saturday)

• Is now 8-3 vs. Top 10 players and 4-2 vs. Top 5 players this season

• This is the second-most Top 10 wins secured in a season, after 11 such wins in 2017

• Having defeated Ka.Pliskova and Kvitova, is first player to defeat two Czechs in the round robin stage since Muguruza in

2015 (d. Safarova, Kvitova)

• Is also now 7-1 vs. Czech players in 2018, defeating Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane, WTA Finals), Siniakova and Allertova

(Australian Open), Vondrousova (Doha and Stuttgart) and Kvitova (WTA Finals). Loss came to Kvitova at Doha

• Won the the Jerry Diamond ACES Award in the 2018 WTA Awards, in recognition of her promotion of women’s tennis to

fans, media, and local communities by performing off-court promotional and charitable activities. Was presented with

the award the pre-tournament Gala dinner on Friday by WTA Legend Jennifer Capriati and WTA CEO and Chairman Steve

Simon

• With her this week in Singapore is Andrew Bettles (coach) and Stephane Gurov (agent)

Season

• Has won three titles this season, at Brisbane (d. Sasnovich in F), Dubai (as defending champion, d. Kasatkina in F) and Rome

(as defending champion, d. World No.1 Halep in F)

• Has now defended a title three times in her career (also Baku 2013-14)

• Boasts 12-2 record in tour-level finals. Has won her past eight matches at this stage, with last defeat coming against Kvitova

at 2016 Zhuhai

• At the Grand Slams this year, reached QF at Australian Open for first time (l. Mertens), made R16 at US Open (l. Sevastova),

had a 3r appearance at Roland Garros (l. Buzarnescu) and suffered 1r upset at Wimbledon (l. Maria) – one of 10 seeds to fall

at first hurdle at the All England Club

• Became first Ukrainian woman to reach QF at Australian Open, surpassing A.Bondarenko who fell in R16 in 2010;

K.Bondarenko reached QF at 2009 US Open. Was bidding to become first Ukrainian woman to reach a Grand Slam semifinal

• Posted strong SF run at Montréal (as defending champion, l. Stephens)

• Enjoyed QF runs at Miami (l. eventual R-Up Ostapenko), Stuttgart (l. Garcia), Birmingham (l. eventual R-Up Buzarnescu),

Cincinnati (l. eventual champion Bertens) and Hong Kong (l. eventual champion Yastremska)

• Reached 3r at Doha (l. eventual champion Kvitova), Indian Wells (l. Suárez Navarro) and Wuhan (after 1r bye, l. Sabalenka)

• Had 2r exit in Madrid (l. Suárez Navarro) and 1r exit at Beijing (l. Krunic)

Career

• Won 12th career WTA singles title at 2018 Rome (d. Halep in F); career record in finals now stands at 12-2, including a current

eight match win streak over the 2017 and 2018 seasons

• Enjoyed stand-out 2017, finishing the year at No.6, winning a tour-leading five titles and posting second-most wins of season

(53, behind Wozniacki with 60)

• Season culminated by qualifying for WTA Finals in Singapore, becoming first Ukrainian woman to qualify for the season-ending

tournament in singles (fell at round robin stage with 1-2 record)

• Her five titles in 2017 included Taipei City (d. Peng in F), Dubai (d. Wozniacki in F), Istanbul (d. Mertens in F), Rome (d. Halep

in F) and Toronto (d. Wozniacki in F)

• Became first player to win three Premier 5 titles in a single season (Dubai, Rome, Toronto), since such tournaments were

introduced in 2009

• Owned longest unbeaten streak in 2017, at 15 matches. Won Taipei City (five wins), went 2-0 for Ukraine in Fed Cup action

against Australia, triumphant in Dubai (after 1r bye, five wins), won one match at Kuala Lumpur before withdrawing prior to her

2r match, then reached R16 at Indian Wells (after 1r bye, two wins) falling to Muguruza in three sets

• One of five players to make Top 10 debut in 2017, after winning Dubai in February (also Ostapenko, Garcia, Mladenovic and

Vandeweghe). Peaked in rankings at No.3 on September 11, 2017

• On four occasions could have reached World No.1 spot – at 2017 US Open, then needed to win 2017 Beijing (fell in QF), then

needed to triumph at 2017 WTA Finals (failed to progress from group stage), or reach final at 2018 Australian Open (fell in QF)

• Enjoyed best win ratio vs. Top 5 players in 2017 across WTA, going 8-1 (Wozniacki was 8-4)

• Strong finish to 2016 season also saw her reach first SF at Premier Mandatory level at Beijing (l. A.Radwanska); in addition,

post‐US Open reached SF at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Osaka) and Moscow (l. Kuznetsova)

• Qualified for 2016 WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai for the second time (l. Kvitova in F)

• Reached three finals in 2016, at Kuala Lumpur (d. Bouchard in F) and advancing to finals at New Haven (l. A.Radwanska) and

Zhuhai (l. Kvitova)

• Other 2016 season highlights included SF at Dubai (l. Errani) and QF at Rio Olympics (l. Kvitova)

• Owns two career doubles titles: 2014 Istanbul (w/Doi) and 2015 Istanbul (w/Gavrilova)

• Made WTA main draw debut at 2012 Baku (lost in 1r but won title the next two years)

• Played first ITF Circuit events of career in 2008. Winner of seven singles and two doubles titles on ITF Circuit

• Ukrainian Fed Cup Team, 2012‐2017. Ukrainian Olympic Team, 2016

Grand Slam History


• Best results to date have been QF showings at 2015 Roland Garros (l. Ivanovic), 2017 Roland Garros (l. eventual R‐Up Halep)

and 2018 Australian Open (l. Mertens)

• At Wimbledon, advanced to R16 for the first time in 2017 (l. Ostapenko)

• Reached R16 at US Open in 2017 (l. eventual R-Up Keys) and 2018 (l. Sevastova)

• Joint‐highest seeding at a Slam is No.4 (2017 Wimbledon and US Open, 2018 Australian Open and Roland Garros)

Other Information

• Parents are Mykhaylo and Olena; brother is Yulian

• Introduced to tennis at age 5 by family

• Coach is Andrew Bettles. Has previously worked with Iain Hughes


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[1] BARBORA KREJCIKOVA (CZE #1)/KATERINA SINIAKOVA (CZE #1) vs. [3] ANDREA SESTINI HLAVACKOVA (CZE #9) / BARBORA STRYCOVA (CZE #9) Krejcikova/Siniakova lead 1-0 Not before 4pm

[8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)

Series tied 1-1 Not before 7.30pm

[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) Stephens leads 2-1 Followed by

ASHLEIGH BARTY (AUS #8)/COCO VANDEWEGHE (USA #19) vs. [2] TIMEA BABOS (HUN #3)/KRISTINA MLADENOVIC (FRA #3)

Series tied 2-2

WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH


W-L PCT PLAYER MATCH W-L PCT SETS

W-L PCT GAMES W-L PCT

[6] SVITOLINA 3-0 1.000 6-2 .750 44-33 .571 [5] STEPHENS 3-0 1.000 6-2 .750 44-34 .564 [7] PLISKOVA 2-1 .666 5-2 .714 36-27 .571 [8] BERTENS 2-1 .666 5-3 .571 28-28 .523 [2] WOZNIACKI 1-2 .333 3-5 .375 37-43 .462 [1] KERBER 1-2 .333 3-5 .375 37-40 .480 [4] KVITOVA 0-3 .000 1-6 .143 26-40 .394 [3] OSAKA 0-3 .000 2-6 .286 27-34 .429 Svitolina d. Kvitova 6-3 6-3 Stephens d. Osaka 7-5 4-6 6-1 Pliskova d. Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 Bertens d. Kerber 1-6 6-3 6-4 Wozniacki d. Kvitova 7-5 3-6 6-2 Kerber d. Osaka 6-4 5-7 6-4 Svitolina d. Pliskova 6-3 2-6 6-3 Stephens d. Bertens 7-6(4) 2-6 6-3 Pliskova d. Kvitova 6-3 6-4 Bertens d. Osaka 6-3 (via ret.) Svitolina d. Wozniacki 5-7 7-5 6-3 Stephens d. Kerber 6-3 6-4











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ABOUT THE SEMIFINALISTS PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

W-L YTD

PRIZE $ YTD MD

W/L YTD


CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES

[5] Sloane Stephens 6 USA 25 3-0 3,868,099 36-18 1 12,176,203 268-176 6 [6] Elina Svitolina 7 UKR 24 4-2 2,863,163 42-15 3 10,234,541 327-169 12 [7] Karolina Pliskova 8 CZE 26 5-5 2,592,050 49-22 2 13,427,441 475-271 11 [8] Kiki Bertens 9 NED 26 2-1 2,666,688 46-22 3 6,025,124 371-224 7


ON THIS DAY October 27, 2012 Maria Sharapova defeated World No.1 Victoria Azarenka in the semifinals of the WTA Finals in Istanbul to set-up a blockbuster final against Serena Williams POTENTIAL FINAL HEAD TO HEADS [5] SLOANE STEPHENS [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA [8] KIKI BERTENS Stephens leads 1-0 Bertens leads 3-2 [6] ELINA SVITOLINA Stephens leads 2-1 Pliskova leads 5-2 QUICK HITS

• Karolina Pliskova has served 393 aces in 2018, and is bidding to hit the 400-mark for the season for the fifth year in a row:

YEAR ACES MATCHES 2018 393 69 2017 452 69 2016 530 61 2015 517 75 2014 435 68

• Two debutantes, Kiki Bertens and Sloane Stephens, have reached the semifinals in the same year for the first time

since 2007 (Ana Ivanovic and Anna Chakvetadze) • Pliskova is the WTA Tour match win leader, with 49 • Pliskova is bidding to hit the 50-win mark for the third time in her career, after posting 53 wins in 2015 and 2017 • This is the first time since 2003, when the round robin format was re-introduced, that none of the Top 4 seeds have

advanced to the final four at the WTA Finals • The last time there were no Top 4 seeds into the semifinals at the WTA Finals was 1994. That year in the final four,

No.7 seed Lindsay Davenport defeated No.5 seed Mary Pierce and unseeded Gabriela Sabatini defeated No.8 seed Kimiko Date





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• Both Elina Svitolina and Stephens remained undefeated in the round robin stage, the 20th and 21st occassions a player has posted a perfect 3-0 record. Stephens is also the first debutante to do so since Garbiñe Muguruza in 2015 :

YEAR PLAYER RESULT 2003 Kim Clijsters Won Title (d. Mauresmo in F) 2004 Amelie Mauresmo SF (l. S.Williams) 2005 Mary Pierce R-Up (l. Mauresmo) 2006 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Henin) 2007 Justine Henin Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2007 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. Henin) 2008 Vera Zvonareva R-Up (l. V.Williams) 2008 Venus Williams Won Title (d. Zvonareva in F) 2009 Serena Williams Won Title (d. V.Williams in F) 2010 Vera Zvonareva SF (l. Wozniacki) 2011 Petra Kvitova Won Title (d. Azarenka in F) 2012 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2012 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. S.Williams) 2013 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Li) 2013 Li Na R-Up (l. S.Williams in F) 2014 Caroline Wozniacki SF (l. S.Williams) 2015 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Kvitova) 2015 Garbiñe Muguruza SF (l. A.Radwanska) 2016 Angelique Kerber R-Up (l. Cibulkova) 2018 Elina Svitolina ??? 2018 Sloane Stephens ???

• Serena Williams was the last player to go undefeated and win the WTA Finals, in 2013 • This is the first time since 2015 both winners topped their groups with a 3-0 record – however Garbiñe Muguruza and

Maria Sharapova both went on to fall in the semifinals that year • Bertens owns the most Top 10 wins this season, with 12. Here is the list of the most Top 10 wins for the last five years:

YEAR PLAYER RECORD vs. Top 10 2014 Serena Williams 12-1 2015 Garbiñe Muguruza 10-5 2016 Angelique Kerber 11-4 2017 Caroline Wozniacki 14-6 2018 Kiki Bertens 12-6

• The only previous occasion Bertens had defeated a Japanese player in her career, she went on to win the title at

that event, overcoming Misaki Doi at 2017 Nürnberg. She defeated Osaka on Friday to advance to the semifinals • The No.8 seed (Bertens) has advanced to the semifinals for the fourth time in the last five years – Caroline

Wozniacki (2014), Svetlana Kuznetsova (2016), Caroline Garcia (2017) and Bertens (2018). Bertens would be the first to reach the final

• For the third straight season, the WTA Finals has at least two first time semifinalists - 2016 (Cibulkova, Kerber, Kuznetsova), 2017 (Garcia, Ka.Pliskova), and 2018 (Svitolina, Bertens and Stephens)

• For the fifth consecutive year, a WTA Finals debutante has advanced to the semifinals – Halep (2014), Muguruza (2015), Cibulkova (2016), Garcia (2017) and Stephens and Bertens (2018)





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• Svitolina is the first player to defeat two Czechs in the round robin stage since Garbine Muguruza in 2015 ( who defeated Lucie Safarova and Petra Kvitova)

• A Czech player has reached at least the semifinals in three of the last four years at the WTA Finals – 2015 (Kvitova, runner-up), 2017 (Pliskova, semifinals) and 2018 (Pliskova, semifinals so far)

• The highest ranked player remaining is World No.5 Stephens • There have been seven three-set matches at this year’s 2018 WTA Finals, the most in the round robin stage since the

format was adapted in 2003 – the previous most was six in 2009. Meanwhile there were five three-set matches in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2013

• Entering the WTA Finals, Stephens had posted the lowest amount of match wins (33) among all of the qualifiers • Bertens (No.9) is competing here on career-high rankings • Following her win on Sunday over Wozniacki, Pliskova has won all three of her opening matches at the WTA Finals,

also defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in 2016 and Venus Williams in 2017

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. REMAINING MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final





[8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)

Head to Head: 1-1

2018 HARD O QF KIKI BERTENS 84 mins 6-4 6-3 CINCINNATI 2016 HARD O R1 ELINA SVITOLINA 112 mins 2-6 6-4 6-2 ZHUHAI

KIKI BERTENS 9 9

10-12-1991 (26) $2,666,688 $6,025,124

3 / 7 1 / 10

46-22 / 154-132 14-11 / 42-46 9-15 / 32-38

ELINA SVITOLINA 7 7

12-09-1994 (24) $2,877,247 $10,248,625

3 / 12 0 / 2 4-2

42-15 / 224-124 12-6 / 68-41 3-6 / 44-33

WTA RANKING







2-1

31-10 / 161-83 26-14 / 64-83 5-4 / 16-9 6-3 / 20-21

12-6 / 15-19 7-3 / 27-32 15-9 / 23-35 12-6 / 45-61



* Updated entering SF at 2018 WTA Finals

[8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9)

RR: d. [1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) 1-6,6-3,6-4 (2h00)

RR: d. [3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4) 6-3, Ret'd (0h47)

RR: L - [5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) 7-6(4),2-6,6-3 (2h20)

ROAD TO THE SF

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RR: d. [2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) 5-7,7-5,6-3 (2h35)



Total games: 65 Won/lost: 34-31* Sets won/lost: 5-3 Total time on court: 5h07 Average time on court: 1h42 Average rank of opponent: 4



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*Includes games from Osaka ti t i RR

BERTENS

WTA Finals

• Making WTA Finals debut in singles - one of three debutantes this year, the fourth year in a row there have been three

players making their debuts

• Joined in SFs by fellow debutante Stephens – first time two debutantes have reached the SFs in the same year since

2007 (Ivanovic and Chakvetadze)

• Competed here in Singapore in doubles last year, reaching the final w/Larsson (l. Babos/Sestini Hlavackova)

• Qualified this year following withdrawal of Halep (lower back injury), having been No.9 on Porsche Race to Singapore.

Could have secured qualification directly by reaching Moscow SF last week, however fell in opening match (after 1r

bye, l. Sasnovich)

• One of three qualifiers to have played Moscow last week (also Stephens, Ka.Pliskova)

• Only four players have won the title on their debuts - Serena Williams (2001), Maria Sharapova (2004), Petra Kvitova

(2011) and Dominika Cibulkova (2016)

• First Dutchwoman to compete at the WTA Finals in singles in over 20 years, since Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in 1997

(who also qualified from 1994-96). Betty Stove is the only other Dutch woman to appear in singles at the

season-ending event (1972, 1974, 1977-78)

• Is the first Dutchwoman to advance to SF at WTA Finals since Schultz-McCarthy in 1995, when the event was played

in a 16-player knockout format

• Bidding to become the first Dutchwoman to reach the championship match at the WTA Finals

• Contesting week of Singapore on a career-high ranking of No.9 (October 22, 2018). Broke Top 10 on October 8,

2018 to become first Dutch woman to be ranked in the Top 10 in over 20 years, since Brenda Schultz-McCarthy in

1996

• Is through to her fifth SF of 2018, and owns a perfect 4-0 record at this stage this season

• Defeated No.2 Kerber in opening match on Monday before falling to No.6 Stephens on Wednesday

• Secured semifinal qualification with straight sets win over No.4 Osaka on Friday (via ret. due to a left thigh injury)







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• Record vs. Top 10 now stands at 12-6, the most Top 10 wins on WTA Tour this season. Other wins came over No.2

Wozniacki and No.7 Garcia (Madrid), No.9 V.Williams and No.8 Ka.Pliskova (Wimbledon), No.9 Ka.Pliskova and No.8

Kvitova (Montreal), No.2 Wozniacki, No.7 Svitolina, No.6 Kvitova and World No.1 Halep (Cincinnati). Can add No.6

Svitolina to this tally if she defeats her today

• The eighth seed has now reached SF stage in Singapore in four of the last five years, also Wozniacki (2014),

Kuznetsova (2016) and Garcia (2017) – none made the final

• Prior to 2018, only had three Top 10 wins in her career

• Here is the list of most Top 10 wins for the last five years:

YEAR PLAYER Vs. Top 10

2014 Serena Williams 12-1 2015 Garbine Muguruza 10-5 2016 Angelique Kerber 11-4 2017 Caroline Wozniacki 14-6 2018 Kiki Bertens 12-6

• Win vs. No.2 Kerber improves her record against World No.1 and No.2 players to 4-4. Losses came to No.2 Kvitova

(2015 Wimbledon), No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open), No.1 S.Williams (2016 Roland Garros) and No.2 Wozniacki

(2018 Australian Open), with other wins coming against No.2 Wozniacki (Madrid) and No.2 Wozniacki and No.1

Halep (Cincinnati)

• Victory over Osaka marked second career win over a Japanese player (2-4 record), losing to Doi (2013 Sydney

qualifying), Hozumi (2014 Wimbledon qualifying), Nara (2015 Auckland), Osaka (2016 Acapulco) and Ozaki (2017

Miami). First win came over Doi at 2017 Nürnberg (via ret. w/abdominal injury)

• The only time she defeated a Japanese player prior, she went on to win the title at that event (Doi at 2017 Nürnberg)

• Owns a 46-22 record this year (including WTA Finals results), the most tour-level main draw wins of her career, and

an improvement on 2017’s record of 32-26

• Won the WTA’s Most Improved Player Award in 2018 – was presented with the accolade at the pre-tournament Gala

on Friday evening by WTA CEO and Chairman Steve Simon and WTA Legend Jennifer Capriati

• With her this week in Singapore is Raemon Sluiter (coach) and Remko de Rijke (fitness trainer and boyfriend)

Season

• Has enjoyed a break-out year in 2018, reaching a career-best four singles finals across the season and breaking

into the Top 10

• Has won three titles, at Charleston (d. Goerges in F), Cincinnati (d. World No.1 Halep in F) and Seoul (d.

Tomljanovic in F)

• Having also defeated No.2 Wozniacki en route to Cincinatti title, is first player to defeat the World No.1 and

World No.2 at tournament since Muguruza at 2017 Cincinnati (d. No.1 Ka.Pliskova and No.2 Halep)

• Reached one further final, at Premier Mandatory Madrid (l. Kvitova in F). Also picked up a doubles title at

Brisbane (w/Schuurs)

• Career record in singles finals stands at 7-2, with pre-2018 titles coming at 2012 Fès, 2016 Nürnberg, 2017

Nürnberg and 2017 Gstaad

• Broke into Top 10 earlier this month, at No.10 on October 8, 2018. Peaked at No.9 this week (October 22,

2018)

• At Grand Slam level this season, posted career best results at Wimbledon (QF - l. Goerges) US Open (3r - l.

Vondrousova) and Australian Open (3r - (l. eventual champion Wozniacki). At Roland Garros, made 3r (l. Kerber)

• At Wimbledon, become the first Dutch woman to reach QF since Krajicek in 2007.

• Made QF stage at Nürnberg (as defending champion, l. Flipkens) and Montréal (l. Barty)

• Reached 3r at Miami (l. V.Williams after holding 3mp) and Beijing (l. Siniakova)

• Had 2r showings at Sydney (l. No.3 Muguruza), Indian Wells (after 1r bye, l. S.Williams in the American’s first

competitive comeback following pregnancy), Eastbourne (after 1r bye, l. Buzarnescu in 3s), Wuhan (l.

Pavlyuchenkova), Linz (l. Gasparyan) and Moscow (l. Sasnovich)

• 1r exits at Brisbane (l. Konjuh in straight sets), Dubai (l. Wang), St. Petersburg (l. Zvonareva via ret. w/illness),

Stuttgart (l. eventual champion Ka.Pliskova) and Rome (l. Sakkari)

• Forced to withdraw from tournaments at Doha and New Haven, both w/illness

Career

• Ended 2017 at No.31, down from career-best year-end finish of No.22 in 2016

• Season highlights in 2017 were winning titles at Nürnberg (as defending champion, d. Krejcikova in F) and

Gstaad (d. Kontaveit in F, having finished R-Up there in 2016)

• Was one of nine players to win at least two titles in 2017, along with Konta (Sydney, Miami), Muguruza

(Wimbledon, Cincinnati), Ostapenko (Roland Garros, Seoul), Pavlyuchenkova (Monterrey, Rabat), Ka.Pliskova

(Brisbane, Doha, Eastbourne), Siniakova (Shenzhen, Bastad), Svitolina (Taipei City, Dubai, Istanbul, Rome,

Toronto) and Wozniacki (Tokyo [PPO], WTA Finals)

• Posted strong SF run at 2017 Rome (l. eventual R-Up Halep) and reached QF at Madrid (l. Sevastova), which

marked first QF at Premier Mandatory level. As a result, posted a then-career-high singles ranking of No.18 (May

29, 2017)

• Added four WTA doubles titles to her haul in 2017: Auckland, Gstaad, Seoul and Linz (all w/Larsson)

• Career-high doubles ranking is No.16 (first reached on April 16, 2018)

• Qualified for her first WTA Finals in Singapore in 2017 (w/Larsson), advancing to the final (l. Babos/Sestini

Hlavackova), defeating defending champions Makarova/Vesnina en route

• Finished 2016 ranked No.22 in singles – big jump in the rankings from her season-ending ranking of No.101 in

2015

• Reached third WTA singles final at 2016 Gstaad (as qualifier, l. Golubic, d. No.17 Bacsinszky en route)

• In 2016, qualified for the WTA Elite Trophy and went 0-2 in singles – falling to Svitolina and Vesnina

• Played on Netherlands Olympic team at 2016 Rio Olympics – fell in 1r (l. Errani)

• Made a clean sweep of titles at 2016 Nürnberg, claiming the singles (as qualifier, d. Duque-Mariño) and

doubles (w/Larsson, d. Aoyama/Voracova). The last qualifier to win a singles title prior to this was Vandeweghe

at 2014 ‘s-Hertogenbosch

• Won maiden career singles title at 2012 Fès as a qualifier (d. Pous-Tio in F) in just her second main draw

appearance

• Owns 10 doubles titles: Hobart and Bastad in 2015, Nürnberg, Linz and Luxembourg in 2016, Auckland,

Gstaad, Seoul, Linz (all w/Larsson) in 2017 and Brisbane (w/Schuurs) in 2018

• Made WTA main draw debut as a wildcard at 2011 ‘s-Hertogenbosch (l. 1r)

• Played first event of career on ITF Circuit in the Netherlands in 2006; has won seven singles titles and 11

doubles titles at this level

• Netherlands Fed Cup Team, 2011-2012, 2014-2017

Grand Slam History

• Best result across the Slams came with SF run at 2016 Roland Garros (l. eventual R-Up S.Williams)

• With that result in Paris, became the first Dutch woman to reach SF at Roland Garros since Marijke Schaar in

1971 (l. SF), and at any Slam since Betty Stove at 1977 US Open (l. SF)

• Enjoyed her best result at Wimbledon in 2018 by reaching her second career Grand Slam QF (l. Goerges).

• Became first Dutch woman to reach QF at Wimbledon since Krajicek in 2007

• In 2018 has reached 3r for first time at both Australian Open (l. eventual champion Wozniacki) and US Open (l.

Vondrousova)

• In 2018, garnered multiple wins at four Grand Slams in the same season for the first time in her career (3r at

Australian Open, 3r at Roland Garros, QF at Wimbledon and now 3r at US Open)

• Is a two-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist in doubles, at 2015 Australian Open (w/Larsson, l.

Goerges/Groenefeld) and 2016 Roland Garros (w/Larsson, l. eventual champions Garcia/Mladenovic)

Other Information

• Coached by former ATP player Raemon Sluiter, although during title run at 2018 Charleston worked with former

WTA player Elise Tamaela

• Parents are Rob and Doré; sisters are Joyce and Daisy

• Started playing at age 6. Tennis idol growing up was Kim Clijsters

SVITOLINA

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• Is through to her fifth SF of 2018, owning a 3-1 record at this stage, only loss coming at Montreal (l. Stephens)

• Posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin stage, the 20th occasion this has happened (Stephens also achieving

the feat a day later, marking the 21st occasion)

• With Stephens also posting a 3-0 record, it’s the first time since 2015 two players won their groups without losing a match

(Muguruza, Sharapova)

• Seeded No.6 this fortnight – the last No.6 seed to win WTA Finals was Wozniacki in 2017

• Posted wins against No.5 Kvitova on Sunday and No.3 Wozniacki on Thursday – improves to 4-2 vs. Top 5 opponents in

2018, also defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane) and No.1 Halep (Rome). Lost to No.5 Ostapenko (Miami) and No.3

Stephens (Montreal)

• Was also her sixth win against a left-handed player in 2018

• Overcame No.8 Ka.Pliskova on Tuesday, and is now 7-3 vs. Top 10 ranked opponents, also defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova

and No.9 Konta (Brisbane), No.9 Kerber (Dubai), No.1 Halep (Rome) and No.5 Kvitova and No.3 Wozniacki (WTA

Finals). Can add No.9 Bertens to this tally today

• Is now 7-1 vs. Czech players in 2018, defeating Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane, WTA Finals), Siniakova and Allertova (Australian

Open), Vondrousova (Doha and Stuttgart) and Kvitova (WTA Finals). Loss came to Kvitova at Doha

• The last player to defeat two Czechs in the round robin stage was Muguruza in 2015 (d. Safarova, Kvitova)




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[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)


2018 CLAY O R16 KAROLINA PLISKOVA 64 mins 6-2 6-3 MADRID 2015 HARD O R1 SLOANE STEPHENS 78 mins 6-3 6-2 BEIJING 2012 GRASS O R1 SLOANE STEPHENS 50 mins 6-2 6-2 WIMBLEDON

SLOANE STEPHENS 6 6

20-03-1993 (25) $3,868,099 $12,176,203

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36-18 / 195-130 10-8 / 62-43 4-8 / 48-27

KAROLINA PLISKOVA 8 8

21-03-1992 (26) $2,592,050 $13,427,441

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49-22 / 257-141 16-5 / 81-44 12-8 / 54-56

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* Updated entering SF at 2018 WTA Finals


RR: d. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) 7-6(4),2-6,6-3 (2h20)

RR: d. [1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) 6-3,6-3 (1h40)


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[7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)

RR: d. [2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #2) 6-2,6-4 (1h32)

RR: L - [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) 6-3,2-6,6-3 (1h54)





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STEPHENS

WTA Finals

• Making debut appearance at WTA Finals – one of three debutantes this year, the fourth year in a row there have been three


• Joined in SFs by fellow debutante Bertens – first time two debutantes have reached the SFs in the same year since 2007

(Ivanovic and Chakvetadze)


• The last WTA Finals debutant to win the event was Cibulkova in 2016




• USA has now been represented in 44 of the 48 WTA Finals (all except 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2015). An American has won

the title 18 times: Navratilova (6*), S.Williams (5), Evert (4), Austin (1), Davenport (1) and V.Williams (1); *Navratilova also won 2 titles representing Czech Republic

• Is through to her fourth SF of 2018, and owns a perfect 3-0 record at this stage this season

• Has posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin stage this week, the 21st occasion this has happened

• With Svitolina also posting a 3-0 record, it’s the first time since 2015 two players topped their groups without losing a

match (Muguruza, Sharapova)

• She is also the first debutante to record a perfect 3-0 record since Muguruza in 2015

• Bidding to be second successive American woman to reach the WTA Finals championship match, after V.Williams in 2017

• This week in Singapore, scored her fourth and fifth Top 5 wins of season (5-2 record), defeating No.4 Osaka and No.2

Kerber. Other wins came over No.3 Muguruza and No.5 Ostapenko (Miami) and No.5 Svitolina (Montreal)


KAROLINA PLISKOVA 2017

R2 L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #6) 7-6(9) 6-3

R1 W - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #2) 6-2 6-2

R1 W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #5) 6-2 6-2

R1 L - JELENA OSTAPENKO (LAT #7) 6-3 6-1 2016

R1 L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #3) 7-5 6-3

R1 W - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #6) 6-2 6-7(4) 7-5

R1 L - SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA (RUS #9) 3-6 6-2 7-6(6)


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• In addition, defeated No.9 Bertens on Wednesday, improving to 7-4 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, also defeating No.3

Muguruza, No.5 Ostapenko and No.10 Kerber (Miami), No.5 Svitolina (Montreal) and No.4 Osaka and No.2 Kerber (WTA

Finals). Can add to that tally when faces No.8 Ka.Pliskova toay

• Having defeated Kerber in straight sets, has now won the last ten sets against the German

• Win against No.2 Kerber also matched best-win-by-ranking of career – also against No.2 Kerber at 2016 Charleston (via

ret.)




Season

• Has reached three finals this season, winning one title, at Miami (d. Ostapenko in F). Also reached second Grand Slam

final of career, finishing R-Up at Roland Garros, and contested title-match at Montréal, losing to World No.1 Halep both

times




• Helped make history in Miami as the USA provided the winners in all four events (Stephens, Vandeweghe w/Barty, Isner and Bryan brothers)









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PLISKOVA:

WTA Finals

• Making third consecutive appearance at the WTA Finals, and has matched best result with progression to SF in 2018

• Also made SF in 2017, going 2-1 in RR stage (d. V.Williams, Muguruza, l. Ostapenko), before falling to eventual champion

Wozniacki in the final four

• Went 1-2 in group stage on debut in 2016 and failed to progress to SF (d. Muguruza, l. A.Radwanska and Kuznetsova)

• Also competed in doubles field in 2016 (w/Goerges, l. Garcia/Mladenovic in QF)

• Pliskova’s (and Kvitova, who fell in RR) participation in this year’s WTA Finals means the Czech Republic have had at least

one player compete every year since 2011

• Qualified last week for WTA Finals as final player after Bertens failed to reach Moscow SF (Bertens would also qualify

herself after Halep withdrawal)

• Is bidding to become fourth Czech woman to lift the Billie Jean King Trophy after Navratilova in 1978-79, Novotna in 1997

and Kvitova in 2011

• Defeats of Wozniacki on Sunday and Kvitova on Thursday takes her to 49 wins in 2018, the most on the WTA Tour

• Has now won all three of her opening matches at the WTA Finals, defeating V.Williams in 2017 and Muguruza in 2016

• Is through to her sixth SF of the season, and has a 3-2 record at this stage, losses coming at Brisbane (l. Svitolina) and

Madrid (l. Kvitova)

• A Czech player has reached at least the semifinal in three of the last four years – 2015 (Kvitova, R-Up), 2017 (Ka.Pliskova,

SF) and 2018 (Ka.Pliskova, SF so far)

• Defeats of No.3 Wozniacki and No.5 Kvitova improves record vs. Top 5 players this season to 4-1 in 2018, also defeating

No.5 Ostapenko (Stuttgart) and World No.1 Halep (Madrid). Loss came to World No.1 Halep (Australian Open)

• Fell to No.7 Svitolina on Tuesday. Is now 6-5 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ostapenko (Stuttgart), No.9

Stephens and World No.1 Halep (Madrid), No.7 Osaka (Tokyo PPO) and No.3 Wozniacki and No.5 Kvitova (WTA Finals).

Can add another Top 10 win today against No.6 Stephens

• Defeat of Kvitova was first over her compatriot in fourth meeting, while it was just Kvitova’s second loss to a Czech player

in her last 29 matches – sister Kr.Pliskova defeated her at 2018 Charleston

• Win was also eighth against a leftie this season (8-3 record), with other wins coming over Haddad Maia and Safarova

(both at Australian Open), Makarova (Miami), Kerber (Fed Cup), Safarova (Roland Garros), Buzarnescu (Wimbledon) and

Lepchenko (Tianjin)

• Defeat of Kvitova marked 50th career win over a Top 20 ranked player (49-64 record)

• With her in Singapore this week is Michal Hrdlicka (fiancé), Rennae Stubbs (coach) and Katerina Stecova (agent)

Season

• Has won two titles in 2018 from three finals contested, triumphing at Stuttgart (d. Vandeweghe in F) and Tokyo [PPO] (d.

Osaka in F)

• Posted R-Up finish in Tianjin (l. Garcia in F); owns 11-11 career record in WTA singles finals

• Has reached multiple finals every year since 2013

• At Grand Slam level this season, made strong QF run at Australian Open (l. eventual R-Up Halep), reached 3r at Roland

Garros (l. Sharapova), made R16 for first time at Wimbledon (l. Bertens) and had QF showing at US Open (d. No.17 Barty

in R16, l. S.Williams)

• Made the SF stage at Brisbane (as defending champion, l. eventual champion Svitolina) and Madrid (l. eventual

champion Kvitova)

• Had QF runs at Dubai (l. Kerber), Indian Wells (l. eventual champion Osaka), Miami (l. Azarenka) and Eastbourne (as

defending champion, l. Sabalenka – led 4-1 in final set)

• Reached the R16 at Doha (l. Bellis) and Beijing (l. Wang Qiang)

• Fell 2r at Rome (l. Sakkari), back-to-back at Montréal (l. Bertens) and Cincinnati (l. Sabalenka), and also Wuhan (l. Wang

Qiang)

• Fell 1r at Birmingham (l. eventual R-Up Rybarikova) and New Haven (l. Makarova)

• Went 1-1 in singles (d. Kerber, l. Goerges) to help Czech Republic reach its sixth Fed Cup final in the past eight years with

a 4-1 win over Germany. The Czechs will host the USA in November’s final

• Nominated for Czech Republic’s Fed Cup World Group I QF tie vs. Switzerland – but did not play a singles or doubles

match due to illness

Career

• Enjoyed another stellar campaign in 2017, posting career-best year-end finish at No.4 for second Top 10 finish. Year-end

ranking has improved continuously for 12-straight seasons

• Claimed No.1 ranking on July 17, 2017 despite making 2r exit at Wimbledon (l. Rybarikova). Is the first Czech woman to

achieve the No.1 ranking since the computer rankings were introduced in 1975 (Martina Navratilova became No.1 on July

10, 1978 while representing USA)

• Won three titles in 2017, at Brisbane (d. Cornet in F), Doha (d. Wozniacki in F) and Eastbourne (d. Wozniacki in F)

• Qualified for WTA Finals for second year-in-a-row, reaching SF stage (l. eventual champion Wozniacki)

• In Grand Slam play, reached SF at Roland Garros (l. eventual R-Up Halep), QF at both Australian Open (l. Lucic Baroni)

and US Open (l. Vandeweghe), and posted 2r result at Wimbledon (l. Rybarikova)

• Advanced to SF stage at Indian Wells (l. Kuznetsova), Miami (l. Wozniacki) and Cincinnati (l. eventual champion

Muguruza)

• Led the WTA in 2017 for aces served – 452 from 68 matches. Also posted joint-second most match wins – 53 (level with

Svitolina, behind Wozniacki – 60)

• Holds a 11-11 record in singles finals, having won having titles on clay (2015 Prague, 2018 Stuttgart), grass (2016

Nottingham, 2017 Eastbourne) and hard (2013 Kuala Lumpur, 2014 Linz, 2014 Seoul, 2016 Cincinnati, 2017 Brisbane,

2017 Doha, 2018 Tokyo)

• Enjoyed a break-out year in 2016, ending the year at No.6 (up from No.11 in 2015)

• Qualified for season-ending 2016 WTA Finals in Singapore, going 1-2 in the group stage and failing to progress.

• Also contested the doubles competition (w/Goerges), losing opening match to top seeds Garcia/Mladenovic

• Helped Czech Republic defend Fed Cup title in November 2016, going 1-1 in singles (d. Mladenovic, l. Garcia) before

teaming w/Strycova to defeat Garcia/Mladenovic in decisive doubles match. Czech Republic have won the Cup in five out

of the last seven

• Captured fifth career doubles title of career at 2016 Birmingham (w/Strycova). Is now 5-2 in doubles finals. At 2013 Linz,

with sister Kristyna, became first set of twins to ever win a tour-level doubles title

• Made Top 10 debut after 2015 Stanford R-Up finish, meaning that for the first time in WTA history, three Czech women

ranked inside Top 10 at the same time (along with Kvitova and Safarova)

• Became eighth Czech woman to crack singles Top 10 since computer rankings were introduced in November 1975, after

Navratilova, Mandlikova, Sukova, Novotna, Vaidisova, Kvitova and Safarova

Grand Slam History

• Advanced to career first Grand Slam final at 2016 US Open (l. Kerber), simultaneously making debut in R16, QF, SF and

title match at the majors. Became first Czech to reach US Open final since Helena Sukova in 1993 (l. Graf in F)

• Defeat of No.1 S.Williams in 2016 US Open SF was career-best victory, and ended the American’s 186-week reign at the

top of the rankings. Became first Czech to defeat a World No.1 since Kvitova at 2015 Madrid (d. S.Williams). Furthermore,

defeat of V.Williams (R16) made her the eighth player to defeat the sisters at the same tournament

• Is one of 10 players born in 1990s to reach major final (also Bouchard, Halep, Keys, Kvitova, Muguruza, Osaka,

Ostapenko, Stephens and Wozniacki)

• At Australian Open, best results came with QF run in 2017 (l. Lucic-Baroni) and 2018 (l. Halep), while she also posted

deepest run at Roland Garros that year, advancing to SF (l. Halep)

• Reached R16 at Wimbledon in 2018 (l. Bertens), after 2r exits in each of previous five years

• Made Grand Slam main draw debut at 2012 Roland Garros (l. Bartoli in 1r)

• Australian Open girls singles champion in 2010 – d. Robson in F

Other Information

• Nominated for 2017 WTA Player of the Year; also nominated for the same award in 2016, in addition to WTA Most

• Improved Player in 2014

• Born in Louny, north of Prague, but now trains at Sparta Praha tennis club

• Currently coached by Rennae Stubbs; worked with former Wimbledon champion Conchita Martinez at US Open, and

previously coached by Tomas Krupa and David Kotyza

• Married Michal Hrdlicka in Monaco after 2018 Wimbledon


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WTA Finals Information: www.wtafinals.com l @WTAFinalsSG l facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG l #WTAFinals WTA Information: www.wtatennis.com l @WTA l facebook.com/WTA Communications Staff: Catherine Sneddon ([email protected]), Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Alex Prior ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Bryan Shapiro ([email protected]), Chase Altieri ([email protected]) DAY FIVE (OCTOBER 25) - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM 1.30pm start

[3] ANDREA SESTINI HLAVACKOVA (CZE #9) / BARBORA STRYCOVA (CZE #9) vs. ANDREJA KLEPAC (SLO #17)/MARÍA JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ SÁNCHEZ (ESP #17) Sestini Hlavackova/Strycova leads 1-0 Not before 4pm

[4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) Kvitova leads 3-0 Not before 7.30pm

[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) Svitolina leads 3-1 Followed by

[1] BARBORA KREJCIKOVA (CZE #1)/KATERINA SINIAKOVA (CZE #1) vs. NICOLE MELICHAR (USA #15)/KVETA PESCHKE (CZE #13) Krejcikova/Siniakova leads 1-0 WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH




[6] SVITOLINA 2-0 1.000 4-1 1.000 26-18 .590 [5] STEPHENS 2-0 1.000 4-2 .666 32-27 .542 [7] PLISKOVA 1-1 .500 3-2 .600 24-20 .545 [1] KERBER 1-1 .500 3-3 .500 30-28 .517 [2] WOZNIACKI 1-1 .500 2-3 .400 22-25 .468 [8] BERTENS 1-1 .500 3-3 .500 28-28 .500 [4] KVITOVA 0-2 .000 1-4 .200 19-28 .404 [3] OSAKA 0-2 .000 2-4 .333 27-34 .442 Svitolina d. Kvitova 6-3 6-3 Stephens d. Osaka 7-5 4-6 6-1 Pliskova d. Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 Bertens d. Kerber 1-6 6-3 6-4 Wozniacki d. Kvitova 7-5 3-6 6-2 Kerber d. Osaka 6-4 5-7 6-4 Svitolina d. Pliskova 6-3 2-6 6-3 Stephens d. Bertens 7-6(4) 2-6 6-3













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ABOUT THE WHITE GROUP PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

W-L YTD

PRIZE $ YTD MD

W/L YTD


CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES

[2] Caroline Wozniacki 3 DEN 28 14-9 5,703,719 41-16 3 32,538,413 610-246 30 [4] Petra Kvitova 5 CZE 28 10-10 3,150,389 47-16 5 27,191,207 490-216 25 [6] Elina Svitolina 7 UKR 24 3-2 2,863,163 41-15 3 10,234,541 326-169 12 [7] Karolina Pliskova 8 CZE 26 4-5 2,592,050 48-22 2 13,427,441 474-271 11


ADVANCEMENT SCENARIOS

ON THIS DAY October 25, 2017 Caroline Garcia produced a stunning comeback against Elina Svitolina to keep up her hopes of advancing from the group stages on her WTA Finals debut. Having lost her opening match and finding herself a set and a break down against the Ukrainian, Garcia rallied to win the match 6-7(7) 6-3 7-5. She went on to defeat Caroline Wozniacki in the final match of the round robin stage, falling to Venus Williams in the semifinal. WHITE GROUP QUICK HITS

• Having lost her opening two matches, Petra Kvitova must win in straight sets today to advance to the semifinals (in addition to Elina Svitolina winning). Karolina Pliskova could also advance with a 1-2 record if she loses today in three sets (coupled with a Svitolina win). It would be the eighth occasion a player has lost two matches in the group stage and progressed:

YEAR PLAYER ROUND ROBIN W-L SINGLE-ELIINATION RESULTS 2009 Venus Williams 1-2, 2nd in group d. Jankovic in SF, l. S.Williams in F 2011 Vera Zvonareva 1-2, 2nd in group l. Azarenka in SF 2013 Jelena Jankovic 1-2, 2nd in group l. S.Williams in SF 2014 Agnieszka Radwanska 1-2, 2nd in group l. Halep in SF 2015 Agnieszka Radwanska 1-2, 2nd in group d. Muguruza in SF, d. Kvitova in F 2015 Petra Kvitova 1-2, 2nd in group d. Sharapova in SF, l. A.Radwanska in F 2016 Dominika Cibulkova 1-2, 2nd in group d. Kuznetsova in SF, d. Kerber in F

• There have been six three-set matches at this year’s 2018 WTA Finals, the joint-most in the round robin stage since the format was adapted in 2003 – there were also six in 2009. Meanwhile there were five three-set matches in 2003, 2005, 2008 and 2013





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• Pliskova has served 392 aces in 2018, and is bidding to hit the 400-mark for the season for the fifth year in a row:

YEAR ACES MATCHES 2018 392 68 2017 452 69 2016 530 61 2015 517 75 2014 435 68

• Kvitova is on a four-match losing streak, which began with a R16 loss at Wuhan to Anastatia Pavlyuchenkova,

followed by opening match losses at Beijing to Daria Gavrilova and then two consecutive defeats this week in Singapore. This is her worst run for over two and half years, when in 2016 she lost in the 2r at Australian Open (to Gavrilova), two Fed Cup losses (to Niculescu and Halep), then falling in her opening match at Dubai (to Brengle)

• She has not lost five in a row since 2010, when she lost six from Wimbledon through to the US Open • The White Group features the WTA match win leader this season – Pliskova with 48 • Should Svitolina win today, it would be the 20th occassion a player has posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin

stage:

YEAR PLAYER RESULT 2003 Kim Clijsters Won Title (d. Mauresmo in F) 2004 Amelie Mauresmo SF (l. S.Williams) 2005 Mary Pierce R-Up (l. Mauresmo) 2006 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Henin) 2007 Justine Henin Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2007 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. Henin) 2008 Vera Zvonareva R-Up (l. V.Williams) 2008 Venus Williams Won Title (d. Zvonareva in F) 2009 Serena Williams Won Title (d. V.Williams in F) 2010 Vera Zvonareva SF (l. Wozniacki) 2011 Petra Kvitova Won Title (d. Azarenka in F) 2012 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Sharapova in F) 2012 Maria Sharapova R-Up (l. S.Williams) 2013 Serena Williams Won Title (d. Li) 2013 Li Na R-Up (l. S.Williams in F) 2014 Caroline Wozniacki SF (l. S.Williams) 2015 Maria Sharapova SF (l. Kvitova) 2015 Garbiñe Muguruza SF (l. A.Radwanska) 2016 Angelique Kerber R-Up (l. Cibulkova)

• Kvitova has won 27 of her last 28 matches against Czech opponents dating back to 2012 Madrid - her only loss

coming against Kristyna Pliskova earlier this season in Charleston • With No.6 seed Svitolina and No.7 seed Pliskova winning their opening matches, coupled with No.5 seed Sloane

Stephens and No.8 seed Kiki Bertens doing the same from the Red Group, this is the first time since the current round robin format was re-introduced in 2003 that the four bottom seeds all won their first matches at the WTA Finals

• Caroline Wozniacki is the defending champion at the WTA Finals. The title has not been defended here since 2014, which marked the end of Serena Williams’ three-peat, having triumphed at the season-ending event from 2012 to 2014





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• Wozniacki lost her opening match against Pliskova on Sunday - the last time the WTA Finals was defended, in 2014, Serena Williams also lost her opening match, falling to Simona Halep

• In total, there have been seven occasions where a player lost a match in the round robin stage and gone on to win the WTA Finals title:

YEAR PLAYER ROUND ROBIN W-L SINGLE-ELIINATION RESULTS 2004 Maria Sharapova 2-1, 2nd in group d. Mauresmo in SF, d. S.Williams in F 2005 Amelie Mauresmo 2-1, 2nd in group d. Sharapova in SF, d. Pierce in F 2006 Justine Henin 2-1, 2nd in group d. Sharapova in SF, d. Mauresmo in F 2010 Kim Clijsters 2-1, 2nd in group d. Stosur in SF, d. Wozniacki in F 2014 Serena Williams 2-1, 2nd in group d. Wozniacki in SF, d. Halep in F 2015 Agnieszka Radwanska 1-2, 2nd in group d. Muguruza in SF, d. Kvitova in F 2016 Dominika Cibulkova 1-2, 2nd in group d. Kuznetsova in SF, d. Kerber in F 2017 Caroline Wozniacki 2-1, 2nd in group d. Ka.Pliskova in SF, d. V.Williams in F

• Wozniacki is scheduled to play her 24th match at the WTA Finals today, and Kvitova her 20th. Here is where they

stand among active players:

Player (active) Matches Wins Losses Serena Williams 35 29 6 Agnieszka Radwanska 25 11 14 Caroline Wozniacki 23 14 9 Maria Sharapova 22 21 11 Venus Williams 21 14 7 Petra Kvitova 20 10 10 Svetlana Kuznetsova 19 5 14

Includes 2018 WTA Finals results

• Following her win on Sunday over Wozniacki, Pliskova has won all three of her opening matches at the WTA Finals, also defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in 2016 and Venus Williams in 2017

• Kvitova is the only player to have a positive head-to-head record against all three of the player’s in her group, overall going 18-8 versus the White Group:

WHITE GROUP – HEAD-TO-HEADS - CAREER

WOZNIACKI KVITOVA SVITOLINA PLISKOVA

WOZNIACKI X 6-8 1-3 6-4 KVITOVA 8-6 X 7-2 3-0 SVITOLINA 3-1 2-7 X 3-5 PLISKOVA 4-6 0-3 5-3 X






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• Two Grand Slam champions are featured, in the form of Kvitova (2011, 2014 Wimbledon) and Caroline Wozniacki (2018 Australian Open). Pliskova reached the 2016 US Open final, while Elina Svitolina’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the quarterfinal stage three times (2015, 2017 Roland Garros, 2018 Australian Open)

• The White Group’s roster features players who have all appeared at the WTA Finals at least once, where the Red Group features three debutantes (Naomi Osaka, Sloane Stephens and Kiki Bertens)

• Pliskova is the only White Group contender to play the week prior to the Finals – she lost her opening round match at Moscow on Wednesday

• Svitolina and Wozniacki were both nominated in the WTA Awards this year – Svitolina won the Jerry Diamond ACES Award, in recognition of her promotion of women’s tennis to fans, media, and local communities by performing off-court promotional and charitable activities. Wozniacki lost out in the Player of the Year category to Simona Halep

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. REMAINING MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 5 Thursday Oct 25 1:30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - White Group Session 6 Thursday Oct 25 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - White Group Session 7 Friday Oct 26 1.30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - Red Group Session 8 Friday Oct 26 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - Red Group Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final





[4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)

Head to Head: PETRA KVITOVA leads 3-0

2018 CLAY O SF PETRA KVITOVA 104 mins 7-6(4) 6-3 MADRID 2015 HARD O F PETRA KVITOVA 112 mins 7-6(5) 7-6(6) SYDNEY 2014 HARD O R16 PETRA KVITOVA 111 mins 6-3 2-6 6-4 WUHAN

PETRA KVITOVA 5 5

08-03-1990 (28) $3,150,389 $27,191,207

5 / 25 0 / 0

47-16 / 398-188 17-6 / 120-77 7-7 / 78-57


21-03-1992 (26) $2,592,050 $13,427,441

2 / 11 0 / 5 4-5

48-22 / 256-141 16-5 / 81-44 12-8 / 54-56

WTA RANKING







10-10

31-15 / 183-93 26-12 / 263-130 3-2 / 44-14 7-3 / 22-19

7-3 / 52-49 5-5 / 25-34 15-7 / 99-83 8-10 / 49-64



* Updated entering Day 5 at 2018 WTA Finals

[4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5)

RR: L - [2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) 7-5,3-6,6-2 (2h19)

RR: L - [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #6) 6-3,6-3 (1h28)

ROUND ROBIN

vs.

[7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)

RR: d. [2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #2) 6-2,6-4 (1h32)

RR: L - [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) 6-3,2-6,6-3 (1h54)




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KVITOVA:

WTA Finals

• Making her sixth appearance at the WTA Finals, and first since 2015. Among active players, owns joint third-most

appearances at the season-ending event (also Kuznetsova and Wozniacki)

• WTA Finals champion on debut in 2011 (d. Azarenka in F) - one of only four players to win the title on first attempt (also

S.Williams in 2001, Sharapova in 2004 and Cibulkova in 2016). Went 3-0 in RR stage, one of only seven players to post

perfect RR record and go on to win the title

• Also R-Up on last outing here in 2015 (l. A.Radwanska in F). That year, posted a 1-2 record in the round robin stage – one

of only four players to post a 1-2 record and reach the final – also V.Williams in 2000 (l. S.Williams), A.Radwanska in

2015 (d. Kvitova) and Cibulkova in 2016 (d. Kerber)

• Other results here read RR stage in 2012 (l. A.Radwanska in first match then withdrew w/ injury), SF in 2013 (l. Li Na) and

RR stage in 2014 (1-2 record, d. Sharapova, l. A.Radwanska, Wozniacki)


PETRA KVITOVA 2015

F L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #6) 6-2 4-6 6-3

SF W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #4) 6-3 7-6(3)

RR L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #3) 6-4 4-6 7-5

RR L - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #7) 6-2 7-6(3)

RR W - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #9) 7-5 7-5 2014

RR W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #2) 6-3 6-2

RR L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #6) 6-2 6-3

RR L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #8) 6-2 6-3 2013

SF L - NA LI (CHN #5) 6-4 6-2

RR L - SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #1) 6-2 6-3

RR W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) 6-4 6-4

RR W - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #9) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 2012

RR L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) 6-3 6-2 2011

F W - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #4) 7-5 4-6 6-3

SF W - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #7) 5-7 6-3 6-3

RR W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #8) 7-6(4) 6-3

RR W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #1) 6-4 6-2

RR W - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #6) 6-2 6-4










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• Playing her 21st WTA Finals match today (10-10 record), set to be level with V.Williams on the list among active players:



• Became the fourth player to qualify for Singapore, during week of Beijing

• Owns second-most match wins this season (47, behind Ka.Pliskova, 48)

• Joined in White Group by fellow Czech and today’s opponent Ka.Pliskova – Czech Republic have had at least one player

compete every year at WTA Finals (in singles) since 2011

• Aside from 2011 triumph, other Czechs to win the title here are Navratilova (1978, 1979) and Novotna (1997)

• Lost first two Round Robin matches to No.7 Svitolina on Sunday and No.3 Wozniacki on Tuesday, only her second and

third losses to Top 10 players this season (also No.5 Ostapenko at Miami). Wins this season have come over No.6

Ostapenko and No.10 Mladenovic (St. Petersburg), No.3 Svitolina, No.10 Goerges and No.1 Wozniacki and No.4

Muguruza (Doha) and No.6 Ka.Pliskova (Madrid)

• Overall is on a four-match losing streak, which began with a R16 loss at Wuhan (l. Pavlyuchenkova), followed by opening

match losses at Beijing (l. Gavrilova) and then two consecutive defeats this week in Singapore. Worst run for over two and

half years, when in 2016 she lost in the 2r at Australian Open (l. Gavrilova), two Fed Cup losses (l. Niculescu and Halep),

then falling in her opening match at Dubai (l. Brengle)

• She has not lost five in a row since 2010, when she lost six from Wimbledon through to the US Open

• Loss against Svitolina was her third opening match loss at WTA Finals in a row, having fallen to A.Radwanska (2014) and

Kerber (2015)

• Faces Ka.Pliskova today in their fourth career meeting, posting a perfect 3-0 record over her compatriot

• Has won 27 of her last 28 matches against Czech opponents dating back to 2012 Madrid– only loss coming against

Kr.Pliskova earlier this season in Charleston

• In order to advance to SF stage, she will need to win today’s match in straight sets along with a win from Svitolina, who will

face Wozniacki

• A win today would put her record in the Round Robin stage at 1-2. On two occasions has a player lost two matches in the

Round Robin stage and gone on to win the WTA Finals title: A.Radwanska (2015) and Cibulkova (2016)

• Bidding for her 100th career win over a Top 20 ranked player (99-83 record)

• With her this week in Singapore is Jiri Vanek (coach), David Vydra (fitness trainer), Marijn Bal (agent) and Jiri and Pavla

(parents)

Season

• Has won a WTA Tour-leading five titles in 2018, at St. Petersburg (d. Mladenovic in F), Doha (d. Muguruza in F), Prague (d. Buzarnescu in F), Madrid (d. Bertens in F) and Birmingham (d. Rybarikova in F)

• Titles have come on all three surfaces – first player to win a title on three difference surfaces in a season since S.Williams in 2015. The Czech has won at least one title every year dating back to 2011

• Is fifth among active players for titles won:

PLAYER TOUR-LEVEL TITLES 1) Serena Williams 72 2) Venus Williams 49 3) Maria Sharapova 36 4) Caroline Wozniacki 30 5) Petra Kvitova 25 =6) Victoria Azarenka 20 =6) Agnieszka Radwanska 20

• Her five appearances in finals is most title-matches she’s reached in a season since 2011 (going 6-1 in finals that year)

• Won back-to-back titles at St Petersburg and Doha for the first time since winning Linz and WTA Finals in 2011

• Defeated No.1 Wozniacki in SF at Doha – record vs. reigning No.1s now stands at 5-4. Other wins came over Safina (2009

US Open), Wozniacki (2011 WTA Finals), S.Williams (2015 Madrid – ending the American’s 27-match winning streak)

and Kerber (2016 Wuhan)

• Captured back-to-back titles at Prague and Madrid. Is first player to win the Madrid title three times (also in 2011, 2015)

• Enjoyed a 14-match winning streak between St. Petersburg (5), Fed Cup (2), Doha (6) and Indian Wells (1), bettering her

13 wins on the spin earlier in 2018, and equaling her joint highest win streak of her career:

NO. OF WINS DATE TOURNAMENTS 14 2011-12 Linz (5), WTA Finals (5), Fed Cup (2), Sydney (2) 14 2018 St. Petersburg (5), Fed Cup (2), Doha (6), Indian Wells (1) 13 2018 Prague (5), Madrid (6), Roland Garros (2) 11 2011 Fed Cup (2), Madrid (6), Roland Garros (3) 10 2014 Eastbourne (2), Wimbledon (7), Montréal (1) 9 2011 Brisbane (5), Australian Open (4)

• Defense of Birmingham title means she has successfully defended a title twice in career, also at New Haven in 2014-15

• At the Grand Slams, failed to reach the R16 at any of the majors in a season for the first time in her career – fell 1r at Australian Open (l. Petkovic), had 3r showing at Roland Garros (l. Kontaveit in two tie-breaks), suffered 1r exit at Wimbledon (l. Sasnovich) and made 3r at US Open (l. Sabalenka)

• Re-entered Top 5 of the WTA Rankings on August 20, 2018 for first time since the week of October 26, 2015

• Made the SF stage at Cincinnati (l. eventual champion Bertens) and QF at New Haven (withdrew prior to match vs. Suárez

Navarro w/left shoulder injury)

• Posted R16 runs at Miami (as No.9 seed, l. eventual R-Up Ostapenko), Eastbourne (withdrew prior to match vs. A.Radwanska

w/right hamstring injury), Montréal (l. Bertens), and Wuhan (l. Pavlyuchenkova)

• Reached 3r at Indian Wells (l. Anisimova), and 2r at Sydney (l. Giorgi) and Charleston (after 1r bye, l. Kr.Pliskova)

• Lost to Kerber in 1r at Stuttgart

• Steered Czech Republic to Fed Cup semifinals for 10th year in a row, posting wins against Switzerland’s Bencic and

Golubic in Prague. Followed this up by going 2-0 in singles play against Germany (d. No.11 Goerges and No.12 Kerber) to

lead the Czech Republic into November’s Fed Cup Final against the USA

• Forced to withdraw from Brisbane w/viral illness and Rome w/right thigh injury

Career

• Finished 2017 ranked No.29, down from No.11 in 2016

• Began 2017 season in May at Roland Garros (2r, l. Mattek-Sands) after a knife attack in her home in Czech Republic on

December 20, 2016; required extensive surgery to left hand

• Won title at 2017 Birmingham (d. Barty in F). Other season highlights included a SF showing at Beijing (l. eventual

champion Garcia) and equaled best result at US Open by advancing to QF (l. V. Williams)

• Ended 2016 ranked No.11, ending run of five straight Top 10 finishes

• Won two singles titles in 2016, at Wuhan (d. Cibulkova in F) and the WTA Elite Trophy in Zhuhai (d. Svitolina in F). Also

finished R-Up at 2016 Luxembourg (l. Niculescu in F)

• Member of Czech Republic team that successfully defended Fed Cup title in November 2016 vs. France (l. Garcia, d.

Mladenovic, then teamed w/Strycova to defeat Garcia/Mladenovic in decisive doubles match). Czech Republic have

won the Cup in five times since 2011

• Contested Rio Olympics in August 2016, winning the singles bronze medal (l. Puig in SF, d. Keys in bronze medal

play-off)

• 2015 season highlights included three singles titles, at Sydney (d. Ka.Pliskova in F), Madrid (d. Kuznetsova in F) and

New Haven (d. Safarova in F). New Haven win was third in past four years, and marked first time she has won any

tournament title three times

• Runner-up at 2015 WTA Finals in Singapore (l. A.Radwanska in 3s). Former champion at the season finale, which she

won on her event debut in 2011 (d. Azarenka in F)

• At 2012 Sydney was two wins from becoming No.1 (had won Wimbledon and WTA Finals in previous six months)

• Made professional debut on ITF Circuit in Czech Republic in 2006

Grand Slam History

• 2018 US Open marked 41st Grand Slam main draw appearance

• Winner of two Grand Slam singles titles, at Wimbledon in 2011 (d. Sharapova in F) and 2014 (d. Bouchard in F)

• Was first player born in 1990s to win a Grand Slam title (since joined by Muguruza at 2016 Roland Garros, Ostapenko at

2017 Roland Garros, Stephens at 2017 US Open, Wozniacki at 2018 Australian Open, Halep at 2018 Roland Garros and

Osaka at 2018 US Open)

• Aside from Wimbledon, best Grand Slam results include two SF showings, at 2012 Australian Open (l. Sharapova) and

2012 Roland Garros (l. eventual champion Sharapova), and QF runs at 2017 US Open (l. V.Williams), 2015 US Open (l.

eventual champion Pennetta) and 2011 Australian Open (l. Zvonareva)

Other Information

• Nominated for 2018 WTA Player of the Year after winning a tour-leading five WTA singles titles

• A global ambassador for Right To Play International, a charity which helps children to learn through sport

• Current coach is Jiri Vanek, having split with former ATP player and fellow Czech, Frantisek Cermak, after 2016 US

Open. Previously coached by David Kotyza for seven years, with the partnership ending in January 2016

• Fitness trainer is David Vydra

PLISKOVA:

WTA Finals

• Making third consecutive appearance at the WTA Finals

• Reached SF in 2017, going 2-1 in RR stage (d. V.Williams, Muguruza, l. Ostapenko), before falling to eventual champion




• Pliskova’s (and Kvitova’s) participation in this year’s WTA Finals means the Czech Republic have had at least one player

compete every year since 2011




and Kvitova in 2011

• Defeated Wozniacki in opening match on Sunday to lead the WTA Tour for match wins, now with a 48-21 record in 2018

(Kvitova has 47)


• Defeat of No.3 Wozniacki improves record vs. Top 5 players this season to 3-1 in 2018, also defeating No.5 Ostapenko

(Stuttgart) and World No.1 Halep (Madrid). Loss came to World No.1 Halep (Australian Open)

• Fell to No.7 Svitolina on Tuesday. Is now 5-5 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ostapenko (Stuttgart), No.9

Stephens and World No.1 Halep (Madrid), No.7 Osaka (Tokyo PPO) and No.3 Wozniacki (WTA Finals)

• Faces compatriot Kvitova today. Has won one out of seven sets played against her countrywoman since their first meeting

at 2014 Wuhan

• Owns a 7-3 record vs. left-handed players this season, with wins coming over Haddad Maia and Safarova (both at

Australian Open), Makarova (Miami), Kerber (Fed Cup), Safarova (Roland Garros), Buzarnescu (Wimbledon) and

Lepchenko (Tianjin)

• Can secure place in SF by winning a set today. The only way she does not advance is with a straight sets loss against

Kvitova along with a win by Wozniacki, who faces Svitolina today

• A win today would mark her 50th career win over a Top 20 ranked player (49-64 record)


Season


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Other Information








[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)

Head to Head: ELINA SVITOLINA leads 3-1

2017 HARD I R1 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 59 mins 6-2 6-0 WTA FINALS 2017 HARD O F ELINA SVITOLINA 78 mins 6-4 6-0 TORONTO 2017 HARD O F ELINA SVITOLINA 88 mins 6-4 6-2 DUBAI 2016 HARD O R3 ELINA SVITOLINA 163 mins 5-7 6-4 7-6(1) MIAMI

CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 3 3

11-07-1990 (28) $5,703,719 $32,538,413

3 / 30 0 / 2

41-16 / 573-238 12-5 / 148-78 6-7 / 89-79

ELINA SVITOLINA 7 7

12-09-1994 (24) $2,877,247 $10,248,625

3 / 12 0 / 2 3-2

41-15 / 223-124 11-6 / 67-41 3-6 / 44-33

WTA RANKING







14-9

30-10 / 160-83 26-11 / 412-161 5-2 / 58-28 6-3 / 20-21

3-1 / 61-66 6-3 / 26-32 8-6 / 132-105 11-6 / 44-61




[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3)

RR: d. [4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) 7-5,3-6,6-2 (2h19)

RR: L - [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) 6-2,6-4 (1h32)

ROUND ROBIN

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WOZNIACKI:

WTA Finals

• Making sixth appearance at WTA Finals, and returning in 2018 as defending champion (d. V.Williams in 2017 final)

• By winning title in Singapore last year, passed $25 million in career prize money

• Dropped only 17 games across three round robin matches last year – the fourth fewest in the tournament’s history

• Her six appearances at the season-ending event is the joint third-most among active players (level with Kvitova and

Kuznetsova)


CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 2017

F W - VENUS WILLIAMS (USA #5) 6-4 6-4

SF W - KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #3) 7-6(9) 6-3

RR W - ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #4) 6-2 6-0

RR W - SIMONA HALEP (ROU #1) 6-0 6-2

RR L - CAROLINE GARCIA (FRA #8) 0-6 6-3 7-5 2014

SF L - SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #1) 2-6 6-3 7-6(6)

RR W - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #3) 6-2 6-3


RR W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #2) 7-6(4) 6-7(5) 6-2

2011

RR W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #8) 5-7 6-2 6-4

RR L - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #3) 6-4 6-2

RR L - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #6) 6-2 4-6 6-3 2010

F L - KIM CLIJSTERS (BEL #4) 6-3 5-7 6-3

SF W - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #2) 7-5 6-0

RR L - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #7) 6-4 6-3

RR W - ELENA DEMENTIEVA (RUS #9) 6-1 6-1

RR W - FRANCESCA SCHIAVONE (ITA #6) 3-6 6-1 6-1 2009

SF L - SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #2) 6-4 0-1

RR L - JELENA JANKOVIC (SRB #8) 6-2 6-2

RR W - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #6) 1-6 6-4 7-5

RR W - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #9) 6-0 6-7(3) 6-4






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• Wozniacki is scheduled to play her 24th match at the WTA Finals today:



• Finished as R-Up in 2010, losing to Clijsters in title match in Doha

• Reached SF on debut in 2009 (l. S.Williams via ret. w/abdominal injury) and 2014 (posted perfect 3-0 in group stage, l.

S.Williams)

• In 2011, as No.1 seed with the event in Istanbul, went 1-2 in the group stage and failed to progress (l. Kvitova, Zvonareva,

d. A.Radwanska)

• Alternate at WTA Finals in 2013 but did not play

• Is the only Danish woman to ever qualify for the WTA Finals

• This week is looking to defend a title for the sixth time, after Tokyo [PPO] (2016-17), Ponte Vedra Beach (2009-10),

Copenhagen (2010-11) and New Haven (2008-11)

• Became third player to qualify for Singapore during Beijing

• Fell in opening match against No.8 Ka.Pliskova on Sunday – was first loss to a Top 10 player this season, having

previously beaten No.1 Halep (Australian Open) and No.9 Kerber (Doha). Faces No.7 Svitolina today

• Last time the WTA Finals was defended, in 2014, Serena Williams also lost her opening match, falling to Simona Halep

• Defeated No.5 Kvitova on Tuesday to keep qualification hopes alive

• Faces No.7 Svitolina – will advance to SF as group winner with a win today coupled with a Kvitova win, or second in the

group with a straight sets win coupled with a Pliskova win

• Nominated for 2018 WTA Player of the Year, however lost out to Simona Halep

• Currently sits third for prize money earned in 2018, with $5,703,719 USD (behind Halep and Osaka)

• With her this week in Singapore is Piotr Wozniacki (father and coach), Michael Przysiezny (hitting partner), Julien

Cassainge (agent) and David Lee (fiancé)

Season

• Has won three titles this season from four finals, winning the Australian Open (d. Halep in F), Eastbourne (d. Sabalenka in

F) and Beijing (d. Sevastova in F). Finished R-Up at Auckland (l. Goerges)

• Now owns 30 tour-level singles titles (30-24 record in finals) - currently sits fourth among active players, trailing

S.Williams (72), V.Williams (49) and Sharapova (36)

• Among active players, only S.Williams (94), V.Williams (83) and Sharapova (59) have appeared in more finals

• Ranks third among active players for hard court titles with 22, trailing S.Williams (46) and V.Williams (31)

• Win over Konta in Eastbourne 3r was 50th grass court win, becoming just the seventh active player with as many wins on

the surface (also S.Williams, V.Williams, Sharapova, A.Radwanska, Kerber and Jankovic)

• At the Grand Slams this season, won debut major at Australian Open (d. Halep in F), made R16 at Roland Garros (l.

Kasatkina) and reached 2r at Wimbledon (l. Makarova) and US Open (l. Tsurenko)

• With Grand Slam triumph in Melbourne, became first Danish woman to win a major singles title. Win over World No.1

Halep in final was fourth win over a reigning World No.1, having previously won her first three all in 2017, over Ka.Pliskova

(Toronto), Muguruza (Tokyo [PPO]) and Halep (WTA Finals Singapore)

• The result also saw her reclaim the World No.1 ranking for the first time in six years, marking the longest gap between

stints at the top spot since the computer rankings were introduced in November 1975 (6 years, 0 days)

• Posted SF run at Doha (l. eventual champion Kvitova)

• Made the QFs at St Petersburg (after 1r bye, l. No.8 Kasatkina), Istanbul (ret. vs. eventual champion Parmentier w/left

abdominal injury) and Rome (l. Kontaveit)

• Reached R16 at Indian Wells (l. eventual R-Up Kasatkina), Madrid (l. Bertens) and Wuhan (at Wuhan (after 1r bye, d.

Peterson in 2r, l. Puig)

• Made 2r exits at Miami (after 1r bye, l. Puig), Cincinnati (after 1r bye, l. eventual champion Bertens) and Montréal (after 1r

bye, l. Sabalenka – held 3mp in third set) and Tokyo [PPO] (l. Giorgi after 1r bye)

Career

• Posted 60-21 record in 2017, finishing at No.3 for 10th consecutive Top 20 season and seventh Top 10 finish of career,

including six in a row (2009-14) and back-to-back year-end No.1 finishes in 2010-11

• Season highlight in 2017 was winning biggest title of career to that point at 2017 WTA Finals Singapore (d. V.Williams in

F). By winning in Singapore, passed $25 million in career prize money

• Also defended title at Tokyo [PPO] (d. Pavlyuchenkova in F) and reached a further six finals in 2017, finishing as R-Up at

Doha (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Dubai (l. Svitolina) in back‐to‐back weeks, and then Miami (l. Konta), Eastbourne (l.

Ka.Pliskova), Bastad (l. Siniakova) and Toronto (l. Svitolina)

• Scored three wins over No.1-ranked players in 2017, against Ka.Pliskova (Toronto), Muguruza (Tokyo [PPO]) and Halep

(Singapore). Had never previously secured victory over the top-ranked player in her career; lifetime record now stands at

4-6 vs. No.1 players (also beat Halep at 2018 Australian Open)

• Scored more wins over Top 10 players in 2017 (14-6 record) than any other player

• Owns 30 career singles titles – fourth most titles among active players (behind S.Williams, V.Williams and Sharapova)

and has won at least one title in 11 straight seasons (since 2008), including career-best six titles in 2010 and 2011

• Won first WTA title at 2008 Stockholm, the first ever title won by a Danish woman

• Denmark’s flag bearer at 2016 Rio Olympics

• Broke into Top 100 on July 9, 2007 and entered Top 50 on January 28, 2008. Debuted in Top 10 on May 18, 2009

• Rose to No.1 on October 11, 2010 and held No.1 ranking for total of 67 weeks; returned to No.1 on January 29, 2018

after Australian Open title for a further four weeks, taking career to 71 weeks

• Qualified for WTA Finals six times (2009-11, 2014, 2017, 2018)

• Winner of two WTA doubles titles – 2008 Beijing (w/Medina Garrigues) and 2009 Memphis (w/Azarenka)

• Made professional debut aged 15 as a wildcard at 2005 Cincinnati

Grand Slam History

• 2018 US Open marked 46th main draw appearance at a Grand Slam

• Captured her first Grand Slam title and the World No.1 ranking at 2018 Australian Open (d. Halep in three sets) –

becoming just the fourth player all-time (also, Navratilova, Ivanovic and Azarenka) to simultaneously win her maiden

major title and ascend to No.1

• Saved 2mp (in 2r vs. Fett) en route to the 2018 Australian Open title – one of five women to do so in Melbourne

• Also a two-time Grand Slam runner-up, losing the title match at the US Open in 2009 (l. Clijsters) and 2014 (l.

S.Williams). Became first Danish player to reach a Grand Slam final since Kurt Nielsen at 1955 Wimbledon

• Made Grand Slam debut at 2007 Roland Garros (l. Dechy in 1r). Would go on to play 36 consecutive majors until streak

was snapped by withdrawal from 2016 Roland Garros (w/right ankle injury)

• At Roland Garros she is a two-time quarterfinalist, in 2010 (l. eventual champion Schiavone) and 2017 (l. eventual

champion Ostapenko) and has reached R16 at Wimbledon on six occasions, most recently in 2017

• In juniors, won girls’ singles title at 2006 Wimbledon and was a finalist at 2006 Australian Open

Other Information

• Ran 2014 New York City Marathon with charity Team for Kids, funds going to New York Road Runners youth programs

• Signed as a USANA Health Sciences brand ambassador in March 2015. As part of the announcement she launched the

program’s annual ‘Aces for Humanity’ campaign to aid the USANA True Health Foundation, whose mission is to provide

critical nutrition to those who are suffering or in need; money is donated for each ace served by the eight USANA

Ambassadors on the WTA

• Announced engagement to former NBA player David Lee in November 2017, the ex-New York Knicks forward proposing on

holiday in Bora Bora

• Coached by father, Piotr Wozniacki

SVITOLINA

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straight sets





• In opening match on Sunday, defeated No.5 Kvitova in straight sets to improve to 3-2 vs. Top 5 opponents in 2018,

also defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane) and No.1 Halep (Rome). Lost to No.5 Ostapenko (Miami) and No.3

Stephens (Montreal)


• Overcame No.8 Ka.Pliskova on Tuesday, and is now 6-3 vs. Top 10 ranked opponents, also defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova

and No.9 Konta (Brisbane), No.9 Kerber (Dubai), No.1 Halep (Rome) and No.5 Kvitova (WTA Finals)

• Is now 7-1 vs. Czech players in 2018, defeating Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane, WTA Finals), Siniakova and Allertova (Australian

Open), Vondrousova (Doha and Stuttgart) and Kvitova (WTA Finals). Loss came to Kvitova at Doha

• Faces Wozniacki today – lost last meeting, here at WTA Finals, winning only two games

• Can advance to SF with a win (as group winner), a three-set loss (as group winner, coupled with Pliskova win in three

sets) or a three-set loss (2nd in group, coupled with Pliskova straight sets win)

• Should Svitolina win, it would be the 20th occassion a player has posted a perfect 3-0 record in the round robin stage,

and first since Kerber in 2016




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WTA Finals Information: www.wtafinals.com l @WTAFinalsSG l facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG l #WTAFinals WTA Information: www.wtatennis.com l @WTA l facebook.com/WTA Communications Staff: Catherine Sneddon ([email protected]), Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Alex Prior ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Bryan Shapiro ([email protected]), Chase Altieri ([email protected]) DAY FOUR (OCTOBER 24) - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM Start at 7.30pm

[1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) vs. [3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4) Kerber leads 3-1 Followed by

[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) Stephens leads 1-0 WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH




[6] SVITOLINA 2-0 1.000 4-1 .800 26-18 .590 [5] STEPHENS 1-0 1.000 2-1 .666 17-12 .586 [7] PLISKOVA 1-1 .500 3-2 .600 24-20 .545 [8] BERTENS 1-0 1.000 2-1 .666 13-13 .500 [2] WOZNIACKI 1-1 .500 2-3 .400 22-25 .468 [1] KERBER 0-1 .000 1-2 .333 13-13 .500 [4] KVITOVA 0-2 .000 1-4 .200 19-28 .404 [3] OSAKA 0-1 .000 1-2 .333 12-17 .413 Svitolina d. Kvitova 6-3 6-3 Stephens d. Osaka 7-5 4-6 6-1 Pliskova d. Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 Bertens d. Kerber 1-6 6-3 6-4 Wozniacki d. Kvitova 7-5 3-6 6-2 Svitolina d. Pliskova 6-3 2-6 6-3 ABOUT THE RED GROUP PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

W-L YTD

PRIZE $ YTD MD

W/L YTD


CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES

[1] Angelique Kerber 2 GER 30 6-9 5,382,362 45-18 2 26,852,841 594-310 12 [3] Naomi Osaka 4 JPN 21 0-1 6,243,289 40-18 2 7,478,197 177-117 2 [5] Sloane Stephens 6 USA 25 1-0 3,868,099 34-18 1 12,176,203 266-176 6 [8] Kiki Bertens 9 NED 26 1-0 2,666,688 45-21 3 6,025,124 370-223 7



• If Bertens wins in straight sets Wednesday, Bertens qualifies • If Bertens and Kerber win on Wednesday, Bertens qualifies as group winner, Osaka is eliminated (Kerber and

Stephens play for the No.2 spot on Friday) • If Stephens wins in straight sets Wednesday, Stephens qualifies













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• If Stephens and Osaka win on Wednesday, Stephens qualifies as group winner, Kerber is eliminated (Osaka and Bertens play for the No.2 spot on Friday)

ON THIS DAY October 24, 2016 Svetlana Kuznetsova, down a break in the final set of her round robin match against Agnieszka Radwanska, took the extraordinary step of cutting off some of her hair during a changeover. The Russian went on to save a match point to beat Radwanska 5-7 6-1 7-5. After the match, she said: "I was trying to put it behind my headband, but my hair is very thick and heavy. Every time I would hit a good shot, it would hit my eye and I was struggling. I thought: ‘Okay, what's more important now - my hair which I can let grow or the match?’” RED GROUP QUICK HITS

• With No.5 Sloane Stephens and No.8 seed Kiki Bertens winning their opening matches, coupled with No.6 seed Elina

Svitolina and No.7 Karolina Pliskova doing the same from the White Group, this is the first time since the current round robin format was re-introduced in 2003 that the four bottom seeds all won their first matches at the WTA Finals

• Kiki Bertens’ opening match win over No.2 Angelique Kerber was her ninth straight win over a Top 10 opponent, and a WTA Tour leading eleventh in 2018

• Since May, Bertens has won 11 of her 12 matches versus Top 10 ranked opponents. Previously, she had lost nine straight matches against players in the elite ranking bracket (from the 2016 Roland Garros semifinal though to the beginning of 2018 Madrid)

• The Red Group features three players making their WTA Finals debut (singles), in the form of Naomi Osaka, Stephens and Bertens

• This is the fourth year in a row three players are making their Finals’ debuts, following 2015 (Lucie Safarova, Flavia Pennetta and Garbiñe Muguruza), 2016 (Karolina Pliskova, Madison Keys, Dominika Cibulkova) and 2017 (Elina Svitolina, Jelena Ostapenko and Caroline Garcia). This is the first year in this run that all three debutantes have been drawn in the same group

• Kerber owns 45 match wins in 2018, the sixth time in the last seven seasons she has eclipsed the 40-match win mark • Kerber is the only player aged 30 or above at this year’s WTA Finals. This is the fifth year in a row there has only been

one thirty-something in the draw – Venus Williams, 37 (2017, R-Up), Svetlana Kuznetsova, 31 (2016, SF), Flavia Pennetta, 33 (2015, RR) and Serena Williams, 33 (2014, WON)

• The Red Group features three Grand Slam champions, in Kerber (2016 Australian Open and US Open, 2018 Wimbledon), Stephens (2017 US Open) and Osaka (2018 US Open). Bertens’ best result at the majors is reaching the semifinals at 2016 Roland Garros

• Aged 18 and ranked No.202, Osaka appeared in Singapore at the 2015 WTA Rising Stars Invitational, which brought together four players (Ons Jabeur, Caroline Garcia and Zhu Lin) after a fan vote to compete that the event. She defeated Caroline Garcia in the final to win the competition. Osaka returns three years later to compete at the WTA Finals in full, ranked No.4 in the world and a Grand Slam champion

• Entering the WTA Finals, Stephens had posted the lowest amount of match wins (33) among all of the qualifiers • Osaka is bidding to be first the Japanese woman to win a WTA Finals singles match since Ai Sugiyama defeated

Justine Henin in the round robin stage in 2003 • Both Osaka (No.4) and Bertens (No.9) are competing here on career-high rankings. Meanwhile Kerber, currently

ranked No.2, is playing on her highest-ranking since July 2017 (as World No.1)





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• Stephens is the only player to have a positive head-to-head record against all three of the player’s in her group, overall going 7-1 versus the Red Group:

RED GROUP – HEAD-TO-HEADS - CAREER

KERBER OSAKA STEPHENS BERTENS

KERBER X 3-1 1-4 2-2 OSAKA 1-3 X 0-2 1-0 STEPHENS 4-1 2-0 X 1-0 BERTENS 2-2 0-1 0-1 X

Includes 2018 WTA Finals result

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. REMAINING MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 4 Wednesday Oct 24 7.30pm Singles RR (2) - Red Group Session 5 Thursday Oct 25 1:30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - White Group Session 6 Thursday Oct 25 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - White Group Session 7 Friday Oct 26 1.30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - Red Group Session 8 Friday Oct 26 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - Red Group Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final





[1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) vs. [3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4)

Head to Head: ANGELIQUE KERBER leads 3-1

2018 GRASS O R3 ANGELIQUE KERBER 63 mins 6-2 6-4 WIMBLEDON 2017 HARD O R1 ANGELIQUE KERBER 89 mins 6-2 7-5 BEIJING 2017 HARD O R1 ANGELIQUE KERBER 83 mins 6-3 6-4 TOKYO 2017 HARD O R1 NAOMI OSAKA 65 mins 6-3 6-1 US OPEN

ANGELIQUE KERBER 2 2

18-01-1988 (30) $5,382,362 $26,852,841

2 / 12 0 / 0

45-18 / 398-224 11-9 / 111-88 10-6 / 78-53

NAOMI OSAKA 4 4

16-10-1997 (21) $6,243,289 $7,478,197

2 / 2 0 / 0 0-1

40-18 / 80-57 4-2 / 15-14 4-4 / 13-15

WTA RANKING







6-9

29-11 / 61-39 27-11 / 259-144 3-1 / 32-19 1-1 / 3-4

5-9 / 36-58 3-7 / 5-16 13-13 / 85-110 9-12 / 16-26




[1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2)

other: L - [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) 1-6,6-3,6-4 (2h00)

ROUND ROBIN

vs.

[3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4)

other: L - [5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) 7-5,4-6,6-1 (2h24)




ANGELIQUE KERBER 2016

F L - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #8) 6-3 6-4


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KERBER

WTA Finals

• Making fifth appearance at WTA Finals, and first since 2016

• Best result is finishing as R-Up in 2016 (l. Cibulkova in F), simultaneously making SF and F debut that year. Posted perfect 3-0 record

in round robin stage, the 19th occasion a player has gone undefeated

• Had never previously progressed beyond the round robin stage, going 0-3 in 2012 (l. Li Na, Azarenka, S.Williams), and 1-2 in 2013

(d. A.Radwanska, l. Kvitova, S.Williams) and 2015 (d. Kvitova, l. Muguruza, Safarova)

• Needed to win one set vs. Safarova in 2015 to qualify for SF, however lost 64 63

• Owns a 6-9 record at WTA Finals, including results this week

• Owns 45 match wins in 2018, the sixth time in the last seven seasons she has eclipsed the 40-match win plateau

• Was second player to qualify for WTA Finals this season (after Halep), securing her place during the US Open

• Is the No.1 seed at the WTA Finals, following withdrawal of Halep (lower back injury). The top seed has won the title 22 times at the

season-ending event. In 2014, S.Williams became the first to do so since 2007 (Justine Henin)

• Ranked No.2 this week in Singapore, her highest ranking since July 3, 2017 (at No.1)

• One of two left-handed players this week in Singapore (also Kvitova). The last left-handed player to win the WTA Finals was Kvitova in

2011 (d. Azarenka in F)

• In 2012 was the first German to qualify since 1999 (Anke Huber). The last German to win the WTA Finals was Stefanie Graf in 1996

• Oldest qualifier this year, aged 30 years 9 months 10 days. Is fifth year in a row there has only been one 30-year-old in the draw,

dating back to 2013


SF W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #3) 6-2 6-1

RR W - MADISON KEYS (USA #7) 6-3 6-3


RR W - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #8) 7-6(5) 2-6 6-3 2015

RR L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #3) 6-4 6-4

RR W - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) 6-2 7-6(3)

RR L - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #9) 6-4 6-3 2013



RR L - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #6) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 2012

RR L - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #1) 6-7(11) 7-6(2) 6-4

RR L - NA LI (CHN #8) 6-4 6-3



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• Fell in opening match to No.9 Bertens, having been up a set and 2-0. Record vs. Top 10 players stands at 5-9 in 2018, defeating

No.5 V.Williams (Sydney), No.5 Ka.Pliskova (Dubai), No.10 Kvitova (Stuttgart) and No.7 Garcia (at both Indian Wells and Roland

Garros)

• Now owns a 2-3 record at WTA Finals in opening RR match, defeating Kvitova (2015) and Cibulkova (2016) and falling to S.Williams

(in both 2012 and 2013)

• Faces No.4 Osaka today, and bidding for her third Top 5 win of 2018, after defeating No.5 V.Williams (Sydney) and No.5 Ka.Pliskova

(Dubai)

• Win would be joint-best by ranking for over a year, since defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova at 2017 Tokyo [PPO]

• Will be eliminated if loses today and Stephens wins • With her this week in Singapore is Joschi Thron (agent), Andre Wiesler (hitting partner), Andre Kreidler (physio) and Beata (Mother)

Season

• Has won two titles this season, at Sydney (d. Barty in F) and third Grand Slam crown of career at Wimbledon (d. S.Williams in F)

• Record in tour-level finals stands at 12-16 – her 28 final appearances is the joint tenth-most among active players (level with

A.Radwanska)

• Entering the 2018 WTA Finals, has shown marked improvement in 2018 from last season:

Return games won: +12.5% (31.8% to 44.3%)

Break Points Converted: +10.0% (39.1% to 49.1%)

Wins vs. Top 20: +12 wins (from 1-12 in 2017 to 13-12 in 2018)

• Sydney title ended 27-tournament drought (dating back to 2016 US Open)

• Triumph at the All England Club made her the first German woman to win there since Graf in 1996

• Kerber hit only five unforced errors in the final vs. S.Williams in just 67 minutes. The win moved Kerber to No.4 in the WTA Rankings,

moving her back into the Top 5 after a near-11 month absence

• Posted SF runs at Australian Open (l. Halep in 3s, having held two match points), Dubai (l. eventual champion Svitolina) and

Eastbourne (l. eventual champion Wozniacki having held match point). Returned to Top 10 following Eastbourne result – at No.10

• Reached five QFs this season, at Doha (l. Wozniacki in 3s), back-to-back during the ‘Sunshine Double’ at Indian Wells (l. eventual

R-Up Kasatkina) and Miami (l. eventual champion Stephens), Rome (l. eventual champion Svitolina) and Roland Garros (l. eventual

champion Halep)

• Roland Garros QF was best result in Paris of career

• Had R16 showings at Stuttgart (l. Kontaveit via ret. w/right thigh injury), Cincinnati (l. Keys), Wuhan (l. Barty) and Beijing (l. Zhang

Shuai)

• Reached 3r at US Open (l. Cibulkova in 3s)

• 2r exit at Montréal (after 1r bye, l. Cornet) and 1r exit at Mallorca in a darkness delayed match (l. Riske)

• Withdrew from Madrid due to a right thigh injury and Tokyo [PPO] due to an ankle injury

• Lost to Ka.Pliskova and Kvitova during Germany’s Fed Cup semifinal defeat to Czech Republic

• Represented Germany at Hopman Cup w/A. Zverev (R-up to Switzerland, d. Bencic in singles rubber)

• Win-loss record in 2018 stands at 45-17 entering WTA Finals, improving on 29-24 from 2017

Career

• Ended 2017 on a ranking of No.21 – sixth consecutive Top 25 season. Best results of season were R-Up finish at Monterrey and SFs

at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Pavlyuchenkova) and Dubai (l. Svitolina)

• Enjoyed an outstanding 2016 season, winning first Grand Slam titles of career at Australian Open (d. S.Williams in F) and US Open

(d. Ka.Pliskova in F), finishing R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams in F) and rising to World No.1 in the WTA rankings

• Courtesy of her results in 2016, doubled her career prize money during season, passing $19 million mark; passed $20 million at

2017 Roland Garros, becoming 15th player to do so

• After 2016 US Open, aged 28, became oldest player to make her debut at World No.1, a record previously held by Jennifer Capriati,

who was 25 years, 200 days when she reached No.1 in October 2001

• Secured the 2016 year-end World No.1 ranking –became 12th WTA player to achieve the feat and second German woman to do so

after Graf (eight times)

• Was voted WTA Player of the Year in 2016 by international media and fans; also, ITF World Champion

• 2016 marked fifth successive Top 10 season finish. Was the WTA match win leader in 2016, going 63-18

• Posted the most wins against Top 10 opponents in 2016, going 12-3, including defeats of No.8 Cibulkova, No.4 Halep, No.7 Keys

and No.3 A.Radwanska in Singapore, as well as No.1 S.Williams (Australian Open), No.6 Halep (Fed Cup), No.7 Kvitova (Stuttgart),

No.5 Halep and No.8 V.Williams (Wimbledon), No.10 Keys (Rio Olympics), No.4 Halep (Cincinnati) and No.8 Vinci (US Open)

• Reached a career-best total of eight finals across the 2016 season (most finals of any player); as well as winning first two majors,

successfully defended title on home soil at Stuttgart (d. Siegemund in F)

• 2016 Stuttgart marked first time she had successfully defended a title in her career; the first German (and seventh player overall) to

do so in Stuttgart

• Made fourth appearance at WTA Finals in 2016, progressing past round-robin for first time (l. Cibulkova in F); first German to reach

final at the season-ending championships since Graf won title in 1996

• Other runner-up finishes in 2016 came at Brisbane (l. Azarenka in F), Wimbledon (l. S.Williams in F), Rio Olympics (l. Puig, won silver

medal)

• Reached first WTA final of career at 2010 Bogotá and won first title at 2012 Paris [Indoors]. Has won titles on all surfaces: hardcourt,

grass and clay (red and green) Career record in tour-level finals stands at 12 -16

• Made first WTA appearance in qualifying at 2003 Berlin

Grand Slam History

• 2018 US Open marked 44th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Is a three-time Grand Slam champion, winning 2016 Australian

Open (d. S.Williams in F), 2016 US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F) and 2018 Wimbledon (d. S.Williams in F)

• At 2016 Australian Open, became first German to win a Grand Slam singles title since Graf at 1999 Roland Garros (d. Hingis in F). At

the time was the fourth player to defeat S.Williams in a Grand Slam final (after V.Williams, Sharapova and Stosur; since joined by

Muguruza and Osaka)

• Also became first Grand Slam champion to save match point en route to the title since Li at 2014 Australian Open (Kerber saved a

match point in 1r win over Doi) and was the first left-handed player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Kvitova at 2014

Wimbledon

• Won second Grand Slam singles title at US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F) and rose to World No.1; was 22nd player to hold WTA World

No.1 ranking, and second German woman to achieve milestone since computer rankings were introduced in 1975 (after Graf, who

spent the last of her record 377 weeks at No.1 in March 1997)

• Became the first German since 1996 to win Wimbledon in 2018, her third career Grand Slam singles title (d. S.Williams in F). Kerber

hit only five unforced errors in the match to oust Williams in just 67 minutes. The win moved Kerber to No.4 in the WTA Rankings,

moving her back into the Top 5 after a near-11 month absence

• In 2016, also finished R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams). Is fourth player in Open Era to reach three Grand Slam finals in the same

year they reached their first, after Goolagong Cawley (1971), Graf (1987) and Hingis (1997)

• Roland Garros remains the only major where she has yet to reach the final. Best results are a pair of QF runs in 2012 (l. eventual R-Up

Errani) and 2018 (l. eventual champion Halep)

Other Information

• Currently without a coach, having ended partnership with Wim Fissette earlier this month. Previously worked with Torben Beltz

• In January 2017 was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe (in the entertainment category), alongside the likes of Gareth Bale and

Luis Suárez

• Speaks three languages: German, Polish, and English

OSAKA

WTA Finals

• Making debut appearance at WTA Finals – one of three debutantes this year, the fourth year in a row there have been three players

making their debuts

• Is only third ever player from Japan to appear at WTA Finals, after Kimiko Date (1994-96) and Ai Sugiyama (2003). Best result was

Date’s run to SF in 1994 (l. Sabatini)

• Aged 21 (and 12 days), is youngest of all this year’s qualifiers


• Aged 18 and ranked No.202, appeared in Singapore at the 2015 WTA Rising Stars invitational, which brought together four players

(Jabeur, Garcia and Zhu Lin) after a fan vote to compete at the event. Defeated Garcia in the final to win the competition. Returns three

years later to compete at the WTA Finals in full, ranked No.4 in the World and a Grand Slam champion

• Contested qualifying this season at Doha – the last player to contest qualifying at an event and go on to appear at the WTA Finals that

season was Bouchard in 2014 (qualifying at Dubai)

• Appearing at WTA Finals on a career-high ranking of No.4 (first posted on October 8, 2018)

• Lost opening match to No.6 Stephens on Monday in three sets –is now 3-7 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ka.Pliskova and

World No.1 Halep (both Indian Wells), and No.10 Goerges (Beijing)

• Three set loss to Stephens was only sixth match this season that went the distance (4-2 record). The next fewest 3-set matches played

among this year’s WTA Finals competitors is now Stephens, Svitolina and Wozniacki (all w/17)

• Has won 54-straight matches when winning the first set (lost first set vs. Stephens). Has not lost a match when winning the first set

since her final match of the 2016 season in Tianjin (vs. Kuznetsova in QF)

• Faces No.2 Kerber today – posted memorable first win over her at 2017 US Open, Kerber being defending champion that year. Has

gone on to lose subsequent three meetings

• Bidding to be first Japanese woman to win a WTA Finals singles match since Sugiyama defeated Henin in the round robin stage in 2003

• Would be fourth Top 5 win over career, in addition to No.5 V.Williams (2017 Hong Kong), and No.5 Ka.Pliskova and World No.1 Halep

(both Indian Wells)

• A loss today coupled with a Bertens win would see her eliminated

• With her this week in Singapore is Sascha Bajin (coach), Tamaki (mother), Stuart Duguid (agent), Abdul Sillah (fitness trainer) and

Natsuko Mogi (physio)

Season

• Won the first two titles of her career this season, at WTA Premier Mandatory level Indian Wells (d. Kasatkina in F) and debut Grand Slam

crown at US Open (d S.Williams in F)

• Reached one further final, at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Ka.Pliskova). Record in finals stands at 2-2, having also finished as R-Up at 2016 Toyo

[PPO] (l. Wozniacki)

• US Open triumph made her was first Japanese woman to reach Grand Slam final and the youngest US Open champion since Sharapova

in 2006

• By reaching Tokyo [PPO] final, became first maiden Slam champion to make the final of her next event since Azarenka won Australian

Open and then Doha in 2012

• From her efforts in New York, passed USD $5 million in prize money for the season – No.2 (behind Halep) on the 2018 list of top

earners

• En route to the Indian Wells title, defeated five-time major champion Sharapova, and Grand Slam finalists A.Radwanska, Ka.Pliskova

and Halep without dropping a set. Only set dropped all week was against Sakkari in R16

• That eight-match win streak included victories over four players who have held the No.1 ranking (S. Williams, Ka. Pliskova, Sharapova

and current No.1, Halep) as well as a former No.2 (A.Radwanska), along with emerging talents Sakkari and Kasatkina. Owns a 1-3

record against reigning No.1s (defeated Halep at 2018 Indian Wells and lost to Ka.Pliskova at 2017 Toronto and Halep at 2018

Australian Open and 2018 Rome)

• Other Grand Slam results were R16 at Australian Open (l. eventual R-Up Halep), 3r at Roland Garros (l. Keys) and 3r at Wimbledon (l.

eventual champion Kerber)

• Enjoyed SF runs at Nottingham (l. eventual champion Barty) and Beijing (l. Sevastova)

• Posted QF result at Dubai (l. eventual champion Svitolina)

• Had a R16 showing at Charleston (l. eventual R-Up Goerges)

• Reached 2r at Doha (as qualifier, l. Sevastova), Rome (l. Halep), Birmingham (ret. vs. Jakupovic w/abdominal injury) and Washington

DC (l. Linette)

• Also made 2r exit at Miami Open (l. No.4 seed Svitolina). Defeated eight-time Miami Open champion, S.Williams in 1r, becoming just

the seventh woman to defeat Williams in Key Biscayne and first to do so before the R16

• Posted 1r exits at Hobart (l. Putinseva), Madrid (l. Zhang), Montréal (l. Suárez Navarro) and Cincinnati (l. Sakkari)

• Forced to withdraw from three events this season, at Eastbourne (abdominal injury), Wuhan (viral illness) and Hong Kong (back injury)

• Also played at Hopman Cup (went 1-1 in singles)

Career

• Produced second Top 100 season in 2017, finishing at No.68 as the Japanese No.1

• Book-ended the season with QF showings at Auckland and Hong Kong; other highlights included 3r runs at Wimbledon and US Open

• Scored first Top 5 win when she upset No.5 V.Williams at 2017 Hong Kong. Upset win over defending champion and No.6-ranked

Kerber at 2017 US Open marked first career Top 10 win

• Overall owns three wins over Top 5 players: No.5 Ka.Pliskova and No.1 Halep (both at 2018 Indian Wells) and No.5 V.Williams (at 2017

Hong Kong)

• Finished 2016 at then career-high ranking of No.40, which was her first Top 200 finish; voted 2016 WTA Newcomer of the Year

• Highlight of 2016 was career-first WTA final at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Wozniacki). Also reached three QFs, at Acapulco, Florianopolis and

Tianjin, and 3r at 2016 Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open. Received direct entry into 2016 Wimbledon but withdrew w/right

knee injury

• Won 2015 WTA Rising Stars Invitational in Singapore (d. Garcia in F, saving match points)

• Ranked No.406, made WTA main draw debut at 2014 Stanford. As an alternate, won through qualifying (achieving first WTA qualifying

wins in the process), and came from match point down to shock No.19 Stosur in 1r of main draw, before losing to No.18 Petkovic in 2r

• Made WTA qualifying debut at Québec City in 2013 (l. Dabrowski)

Grand Slam History

• Defeated six-time champion S.Williams in final of 2018 US Open to become first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam title

• In reaching R16 at 2018 Australian Open, became youngest Japanese player to reach R16 at a Grand Slam since Sugiyama at 1995

Roland Garros (19 yrs, 342 days) and the youngest player from Japan to reach the fourth round at Australian Open since Date in 1990

(19 yrs, 122 days)

• Has also made 3r at the other two majors: 2016 Roland Garros (l. Halep) and 2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys), 2017 Wimbledon (l.

V.Williams) and 2018 Wimbledon (l. Kerber)

Other Information

• Currently coached by Aleksandar (Sascha) Bajin, former hitting partner of Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams.

Formerly coached by David Taylor, long-time coach of Sam Stosur

• Was born in Osaka, Japan, and moved to USA when she was three years old; holds dual citizenship. Currently lives in Fort Lauderdale

and trains in Boca Raton

• Sponsorship deals include Citizen, broadcaster WOWOW, Nissin (food brand) and Nissan (automobiles)

• Her father, Leonard Max Francois, was born in Haiti and attended college in NYC before moving to Japan where he lived for 13 years

• Her mother, Tamaki, is Japanese. Older sister Mari is also on tour


[5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) vs. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9)


2013 CLAY O R2 SLOANE STEPHENS 109 mins 4-6 6-3 6-2 ROME

SLOANE STEPHENS 6 6

20-03-1993 (25) $3,868,099 $12,176,203

1 / 6 0 / 0

34-18 / 193-130 9-8 / 61-43 3-8 / 47-27

KIKI BERTENS 9 9

10-12-1991 (26) $2,666,688 $6,025,124

3 / 7 1 / 10 1-0

45-21 / 153-131 14-10 / 42-45 9-14 / 32-37

WTA RANKING







1-0

25-13 / 63-82 22-12 / 126-85 3-0 / 15-5 5-4 / 16-9

5-4 / 14-32 11-5 / 14-18 10-8 / 32-53 14-8 / 22-34






ROUND ROBIN

vs.

[8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9)

RR: d. [1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) 1-6,6-3,6-4 (2h00)




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STEPHENS

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• Scored fourth Top 5 win of season (4-2 record) over No.4 Osaka on Monday, also defeating No.3 Muguruza and No.5

Ostapenko (Miami) and No.5 Svitolina (Montreal)

• Faces No.9 Bertens today, currently at the 5-4 marks vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating, No.3 Muguruza, No.5

Ostapenko and No.10 Kerber (Miami), No.5 Svitolina (Montreal) and No.4 Osaka (WTA Finals)

• Is 2-0 vs. Dutch opponents this season, defeating Rus in Acapulco and Roland Garros

• Can secure qualification to SF with a straight sets win. A win coupled with an Osaka win would also guarantee her to be

group winner




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• Helped make history in Miami as the USA provided the winners in all four events - Stephens, Vandeweghe (w/Australia’s Barty), Isner and Bryan brothers









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BERTENS

WTA Finals






bye, l. Sasnovich)









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• Following defeat of No.2 Kerber in opening match on Monday, now owns 11 wins against Top 10 players this season,

the most on WTA Tour. Other defeats came over No.2 Wozniacki and No.7 Garcia (Madrid), No.9 V.Williams and No.8

Ka.Pliskova (Wimbledon), No.9 Ka.Pliskova and No.8 Kvitova (Montreal), No.2 Wozniacki, No.7 Svitolina, No.6

Kvitova and World No.1 Halep (Cincinnati). Can add to this impressive tally when she faces No.6 Stephens today

• Prior to 2018, only had three Top 10 wins in her career

• Defeat of Kerber was also ninth straight win over a Top 10 opponent. Since May, has won 11 of her 12 matches

versus Top 10 ranked opponents. Previously, she had lost nine straight matches against players in the elite ranking

bracket (from the 2016 Roland Garros semifinal though to the beginning of 2018 Madrid)

• Win vs. No.2 Kerber improves her record against World No.1 and No.2 players to 4-4. Losses came to No.2 Kvitova

(2015 Wimbledon), No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open), No.1 S.Williams (2016 Roland Garros) and No.2 Wozniacki

(2018 Australian Open), with other wins coming against No.2 Wozniacki (Madrid) and No.2 Wozniacki and No.1

Halep (Cincinnati)

• Can secure qualification to SF with a straight sets win today. A win coupled with a Kerber win would see her qualify as

group winner

• Owns a 45-21 record this year (including WTA Finals results), the most tour-level main draw wins of her career, and

an improvement on 2017’s record of 32-26


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WTA Finals Information: www.wtafinals.com l @WTAFinalsSG l facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG l #WTAFinals WTA Information: www.wtatennis.com l @WTA l facebook.com/WTA Communications Staff: Catherine Sneddon ([email protected]), Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Alex Prior ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Bryan Shapiro ([email protected]), Chase Altieri ([email protected]) DAY THREE (OCTOBER 23) - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM Start at 7.30pm

[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) Kvitova leads 8-5 Followed by

[6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) Pliskova leads 5-2 WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH




[6] SVITOLINA 1-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 12-6 .666 [5] STEPHENS 1-0 1.000 2-1 .666 17-12 .586 [7] PLISKOVA 1-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 12-6 .666 [8] BERTENS 1-0 1.000 2-1 .666 13-13 .500 [2] WOZNIACKI 0-1 .000 0-2 .000 6-12 .333 [1] KERBER 0-1 .000 1-2 .333 13-13 .500 [4] KVITOVA 0-1 .000 0-2 .000 6-12 .333 [3] OSAKA 0-1 .000 1-2 .333 12-17 .413 Svitolina d. Kvitova 6-3 6-3 Stephens d. Osaka 7-5 4-6 6-1 Pliskova d. Wozniacki 6-2 6-4 Bertens d. Kerber 1-6 6-3 6-4 ABOUT THE WHITE GROUP PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

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• If Svitolina and Kvitova win, Svitolina qualifies as group winner, Wozniacki is eliminated (Kvitova and Pliskova would play for the No. 2 spot on Thursday)

• If Svitolina wins in straight sets and Wozniacki wins in three sets, Svitolina qualifies (position tbd) • If Pliskova and Wozniacki win, Pliskova qualifies as group winner, Kvitova is eliminated (Wozniacki and Svitolina play

for the No. 2 spot on Thursday) • If Pliskova wins in straight sets and Kvitova wins in three sets, Pliskova qualifies (position tbd) • Any other combination of results will mean qualification comes down to Thursday’s matches













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ON THIS DAY October 23, 2012 Angelique Kerber made her WTA Finals debut, losing her opening match against Serena Williams in Istanbul. She failed to progress from the group stage that year, and then in her following two appearances (2013 and 2015), before her long wait to reach a WTA Finals semifinal came in 2016, finishing as runner-up that year. WHITE GROUP QUICK HITS

• With No.6 seed Elina Svitolina and No.7 Karolina Pliskova winning their opening matches, coupled with No.5 Sloane

Stephens and No.8 seed Kiki Bertens doing the same from the Red Group, this is the first time since the current round robin format was re-introduced in 2003 that the four bottom seeds all won their first matches at the WTA Finals

• The White Group features the WTA match win leader this season – entering the WTA Finals, Karolina Pliskova and Petra Kvitova were tied on 47, however Pliskova’s win on Match Day 1 over Caroline Wozniacki (coupled with Kvitova’s loss to Elina Svitolina) moves her ahead

• Wozniacki is the defending champion at the WTA Finals. The title has not been defended here since 2014, which marked the end of Serena Williams’ three-peat, having triumphed at the season-ending event from 2012 to 2014

• Wozniacki lost her opening match against Pliskova on Sunday - the last time the WTA Finals was defended, in 2014, Serena Williams also lost her opening match, falling to Simona Halep

• In total, there have been seven occasions where a player lost a match in the round robin stage and gone on to win the WTA Finals title:

YEAR PLAYER ROUND ROBIN W-L SINGLE-ELIINATION RESULTS 2004 Maria Sharapova 2-1, 2nd in group d. Mauresmo in SF, d. S.Williams in F 2005 Amelie Mauresmo 2-1, 2nd in group d. Sharapova in SF, d. Pierce in F 2006 Justine Henin 2-1, 2nd in group d. Sharapova in SF, d. Mauresmo in F 2010 Kim Clijsters 2-1, 2nd in group d. Stosur in SF, d. Wozniacki in F 2014 Serena Williams 2-1, 2nd in group d. Wozniacki in SF, d. Halep in F 2015 Agnieszka Radwanska 1-2, 2nd in group d. Muguruza in SF, d. Kvitova in F 2016 Dominika Cibulkova 1-2, 2nd in group d. Kuznetsova in SF, d. Kerber in F 2017 Caroline Wozniacki 2-1, 2nd in group d. Ka.Pliskova in SF, d. V.Williams in F

• Wozniacki is scheduled to play her 23rd match at the WTA Finals today, meanwhile Kvitova is set to move ahead of

Svetlana Kuznetsova with 20 matches contested (active players):

Player (active) Matches Wins Losses Serena Williams 35 29 6 Agnieszka Radwanska 25 11 14 Caroline Wozniacki 22 13 9 Maria Sharapova 22 21 11 Venus Williams 21 14 7 Svetlana Kuznetsova 19 5 14 Petra Kvitova 19 10 9


• Following her win on Sunday over Wozniacki, Pliskova has won all three of her opening matches at the WTA Finals, also defeating Garbiñe Muguruza in 2016 and Venus Williams in 2017





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• Two Grand Slam champions are featured, in the form of Kvitova (2011, 2014 Wimbledon) and Caroline Wozniacki (2018 Australian Open). Pliskova reached the 2016 US Open final, while Elina Svitolina’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the quarterfinal stage three times (2015, 2017 Roland Garros, 2018 Australian Open)



• Svitolina and Wozniacki were both nominated in the WTA Awards this year – Svitolina won the Jerry Diamond ACES Award, in recognition of her promotion of women’s tennis to fans, media, and local communities by performing off-court promotional and charitable activities. Wozniacki lost out in the Player of the Year category to Simona Halep

WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. REMAINING MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 3 Tuesday Oct 23 7.30pm Singles RR (2) - White Group Session 4 Wednesday Oct 24 7.30pm Singles RR (2) - Red Group Session 5 Thursday Oct 25 1:30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - White Group Session 6 Thursday Oct 25 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - White Group Session 7 Friday Oct 26 1.30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - Red Group Session 8 Friday Oct 26 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - Red Group Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final





[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5)


2018 HARD O SF PETRA KVITOVA 156 mins 3-6 7-6(3) 7-5 DOHA 2017 HARD O R16 PETRA KVITOVA 74 mins 6-1 6-4 BEIJING 2016 HARD O R2 PETRA KVITOVA 6-2 6-4 OLYMPICS 2015 HARD O SF PETRA KVITOVA 101 mins 7-5 6-1 NEW HAVEN 2014 HARD I R1 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 70 mins 6-2 6-3 WTA FINALS 2013 HARD O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 125 mins 3-6 6-2 6-3 CINCINNATI 2013 HARD O SF PETRA KVITOVA 83 mins 6-3 6-4 DUBAI 2012 HARD O SF PETRA KVITOVA 114 mins 3-6 6-2 6-3 MONTREAL 2011 HARD I R1 PETRA KVITOVA 84 mins 6-4 6-2 WTA FINALS 2010 HARD O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 75 mins 6-3 6-2 BEIJING 2010 GRASS O R16 PETRA KVITOVA 46 mins 6-2 6-0 WIMBLEDON 2010 CLAY O R1 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 80 mins 6-4 6-2 MADRID 2009 CLAY O R16 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 91 mins 6-4 6-2 BASTAD


11-07-1990 (28) $5,703,719 $32,538,413

3 / 30 0 / 2

40-16 / 572-238 11-5 / 147-78 6-7 / 89-79

PETRA KVITOVA 5 5

08-03-1990 (28) $3,150,389 $27,191,207

5 / 25 0 / 0 10-9

47-15 / 398-187 17-5 / 120-76 7-7 / 78-57

WTA RANKING







13-9

26-11 / 263-129 25-11 / 411-161 4-2 / 57-28 3-2 / 44-14

2-1 / 60-66 7-2 / 52-48 7-6 / 131-105 15-6 / 99-82




Rnd Result Duration

RR K. PLISKOVA d. C. WOZNIACKI 6-2,6-4 92 mins

Rnd Result Duration

RR E. SVITOLINA d. P. KVITOVA 6-3,6-3 88 mins

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R2 W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #4) 6-3 7-6(3)

R1 L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #3) 6-4 4-6 7-5

R1 L - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #7) 6-2 7-6(3)

R1 W - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #9) 7-5 7-5 2014

R1 W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #2) 6-3 6-2


R1 L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #8) 6-2 6-3 2013

R2 L - NA LI (CHN #5) 6-4 6-2

R1 L - SERENA WILLIAMS (USA #1) 6-2 6-3

R1 W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) 6-4 6-4

R1 W - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #9) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 2012

R1 L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) 6-3 6-2 2011


R2 W - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #7) 5-7 6-3 6-3

R1 W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #8) 7-6(4) 6-3

R1 W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #1) 6-4 6-2

R1 W - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #6) 6-2 6-4


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WOZNIACKI:

WTA Finals



• Dropped only 17 games across three round robin matches last year – the fourth fewest in the tournament’s history


Kuznetsova)

• Scheduled to play her 23rd match at the WTA Finals today, moving her third on the list among active players:





S.Williams)


d. A.Radwanska)






• Fell in opening match against No.8 Ka.Pliskova on Sunday – was first loss to a Top 10 player this season, having

previously beaten No.1 Halep (Australian Open) and No.9 Kerber (Doha)

• Last time the WTA Finals was defended, in 2014, Serena Williams also lost her opening match, falling to Simona Halep

• Faces Kvitova in their 14th meeting, their first having coming back in 2009. Also third meeting at WTA Finals, record here

split 1-1

• A loss today coupled with a Svitolina win would see her eliminated

• Nominated for WTA Player of the Year, however lost out to Simona Halep

• With her this week in Singapore is Piotr Wozniacki (father and coach), Michael Przysiezny (hitting partner), Julien

Cassainge (agent) and David Lee (fiancé)

Season







• Win over Konta in Eastbourne 3r was 50th grass court win, becoming just the seventh active player with as many wins on

the surface (also S.Williams, V.Williams, Sharapova, A.Radwanska, Kerber and Jankovic)















Career





• Also defended title at Tokyo [PPO] (d. Pavlyuchenkova in F) and reached a further six finals in 2017, finishing as R-Up at

Doha (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Dubai (l. Svitolina) in back‐to‐back weeks, and then Miami (l. Konta), Eastbourne (l.
















Grand Slam History













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KVITOVA:

WTA Finals

• Making her sixth appearance at the WTA Finals, and first since 2015. Among active players, owns joint third-most

appearances at the season-ending event

• WTA Finals champion on debut in 2011 (d. Azarenka in F) - one of only four players to win the title on first attempt (also

S.Williams in 2001, Sharapova in 2004 and Cibulkova in 2016). Went 3-0 in RR stage, one of only seven players to post

perfect RR record and go on to win the title

• Also R-Up on last outing here in 2015 (l. A.Radwanska in F). That year, posted a 1-2 record in the round robin stage – one

of only four players to post a 1-2 record and reach the final – also V.Williams in 2000 (l. S.Williams), A.Radwanska in

2015 (d. Kvitova) and Cibulkova in 2016 (d. Kerber)

• Other results here read RR stage in 2012 (l. A.Radwanska in first match then withdrew w/ injury), SF in 2013 (l. Li Na) and

RR stage in 2014 (1-2 record, d. Sharapova, l. A.Radwanska, Wozniacki)

• Playing her 20th WTA Finals match today, and set to move ahead of Kuznetsova on the list among active players:




• Owns a 10-9 record at WTA Finals

• Owns second-most match wins this season (47, behind Ka.Pliskova, 48)

• Joined in White Group by fellow Czech Ka.Pliskova – Czech Republic have had at least one player compete every year at

WTA Finals (in singles) since 2011


• Lost opening match on Sunday to No.7 Svitolina, only her second loss to a Top 10 player this season (also No.5

Ostapenko at Miami). Wins this season have come over No.6 Ostapenko and No.10 Mladenovic (St. Petersburg), No.3

Svitolina, No.10 Goerges and No.1 Wozniacki and No.4 Muguruza (Doha) and No.6 Ka.Pliskova (Madrid)

• Was her third opening match loss at WTA Finals in a row, having fallen to A.Radwanska in 2014 and Kerber in 2015.

• Faces Wozniacki today – when the pair first met in 2009, Kvitova was ranked No.59 in the world and yet to defeat a Top

10 player

• A loss today coupled with a Pliskova win would see her eliminated

• With her this week in Singapore is Jiri Vanek (coach), David Vydra (fitness trainer), Marijn Bal (agent) and Jiri and Pavla

(parents)

Season











• Enjoyed a 14-match winning streak between St. Petersburg (5), Fed Cup (2), Doha (6) and Indian Wells (1), bettering her



• Defence of Birmingham title means she has successfully defended a title twice in career, also at New Haven in 2014-15





• Posted R16 runs at Miami (as No.9 seed, l. eventual R-Up Ostapenko), Eastbourne (withdrew prior to match vs. A.Radwanska








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[6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)

Head to Head: KAROLINA PLISKOVA leads 5-2

2018 HARD O SF ELINA SVITOLINA 100 mins 7-5 7-5 BRISBANE 2017 CLAY O QF ELINA SVITOLINA 92 mins 6-2 7-6(9) ROME 2017 HARD O SF KAROLINA PLISKOVA 65 mins 6-2 6-4 BRISBANE 2015 HARD O SF KAROLINA PLISKOVA 61 mins 6-3 6-1 ZHUHAI 2015 HARD O R16 KAROLINA PLISKOVA 113 mins 2-6 6-4 6-4 WUHAN 2014 CLAY O SF KAROLINA PLISKOVA 82 mins 2-6 6-1 6-2 NÜRNBERG 2011 CLAY O SF KAROLINA PLISKOVA 6-4 6-3 PREROV

ELINA SVITOLINA 7 7

12-09-1994 (24) $2,877,247 $10,248,625

3 / 12 0 / 2

40-15 / 222-124 10-6 / 66-41 3-6 / 44-33


21-03-1992 (26) $2,592,050 $13,427,441

2 / 11 0 / 5 4-4

48-21 / 256-140 16-4 / 81-43 12-8 / 54-56

WTA RANKING







2-2

31-14 / 183-92 29-10 / 159-83 6-3 / 20-21 7-3 / 22-19

5-3 / 25-32 5-4 / 25-33 10-6 / 43-61 8-9 / 49-63



* Updated entering Day 3 of 2018 WTA Finals

Rnd Result Duration

RR E. SVITOLINA d. P. KVITOVA 6-3,6-3 88 mins

Rnd Result Duration

RR K. PLISKOVA d. C. WOZNIACKI 6-2,6-4 92 mins



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straight sets





• In opening match on Sunday, defeated No.5 Kvitova in straight sets to improve to 3-2 vs. Top 5 opponents in 2018,

also defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane) and No.1 Halep (Rome). Lost to No.5 Ostapenko (Miami) and No.3

Stephens (Montreal)


• Faces No.8 Ka.Pliskova today, going 5-3 vs. Top 10 ranked opponents, defeating No.4 Ka.Pliskova and No.9 Konta

(Brisbane), No.9 Kerber (Dubai), No.1 Halep (Rome) and No.5 Kvitova (WTA Finals)

• Can advance to SF with a win today, coupled with other results (see cover sheet for breakdown)

• Owns a good record vs. Czech players this year, going 6-1, defeating Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane), Siniakova and Allertova

(Australian Open), Vondrousova (Doha and Stuttgart) and Kvitova (WTA Finals). Loss came to Kvitova at Doha

• Bidding to win back-to-back matches at WTA Finals for first time in career




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RR L - CAROLINE GARCIA (FRA #8) 6-7(7) 6-3 7-5










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and Kvitova in 2011

• Defeated Wozniacki in opening match on Sunday to lead the WTA Tour for match wins, now with a 48-21 record in 2018

(Kvitova has 47)


• Defeat of No.3 Wozniacki improves record vs. Top 5 players this season to 3-1 in 2018, also defeating No.5 Ostapenko

(Stuttgart) and World No.1 Halep (Madrid). Loss came to World No.1 Halep (Australian Open)

• Today faces No.7 Svitolina – is 5-4 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ostapenko (Stuttgart), No.9 Stephens and

World No.1 Halep (Madrid), No.7 Osaka (Tokyo PPO) and No.3 Wozniacki (WTA Finals)

• Can advance to SF with a win today, coupled with other results (see cover sheet for breakdown)


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WTA Finals Information: www.wtafinals.com l @WTAFinalsSG l facebook.com/WTAFinalsSG l #WTAFinals WTA Information: www.wtatennis.com l @WTA l facebook.com/WTA Communications Staff: Catherine Sneddon ([email protected]), Adam Lincoln ([email protected]), Alex Prior ([email protected]), Estelle LaPorte ([email protected]), Bryan Shapiro ([email protected]), Chase Altieri ([email protected]) DAY TWO (OCTOBER 22) - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM Start at 7.30pm

[3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4) vs. [5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6) Stephens leads 1-0 Followed by

[1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) vs. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9) Kerber leads 2-1 WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH




[6] SVITOLINA 1-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 12-6 .666 [1] KERBER 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [7] PLISKOVA 1-0 1.000 2-0 1.000 12-6 .666 [3] OSAKA 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [2] WOZNIACKI 0-1 .000 0-2 .000 6-12 .333 [5] STEPHENS 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [4] KVITOVA 0-1 .000 0-2 .000 6-12 .333 [8] BERTENS 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 ABOUT THE RED GROUP PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

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PRIZE $ YTD MD

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CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES

[1] Angelique Kerber 2 GER 30 6-8 5,382,362 45-17 2 26,852,841 594-309 12 [3] Naomi Osaka 4 JPN 21 0-0 6,243,289 40-17 2 7,478,197 177-116 2 [5] Sloane Stephens 6 USA 25 0-0 3,868,099 33-18 1 12,176,203 265-176 6 [8] Kiki Bertens 9 NED 26 0-0 2,666,688 44-21 3 6,025,124 369-223 7

RED GROUP QUICK HITS

• The Red Group features three players making their WTA Finals debut (singles), in the form of Naomi Osaka, Sloane

Stephens and Kiki Bertens • This is the fourth year in a row three players are making their Finals’ debuts, following 2015 (Lucie Safarova, Flavia

Pennetta and Garbiñe Muguruza), 2016 (Karolina Pliskova, Madison Keys, Dominika Cibulkova) and 2017 (Elina Svitolina, Jelena Ostapenko and Caroline Garcia). This is the first year in this run that all three debutantes have been drawn in the same group

• Angelique Kerber is the only player aged 30 or above at this year’s WTA Finals. This is the fifth year in a row there has only been one thirty-something in the draw – Venus Williams, 37 (2017, R-Up), Svetlana Kuznetsova, 31 (2016, SF), Flavia Pennetta, 33 (2015, RR) and Serena Williams, 33 (2014, WON)














• The Red Group features three Grand Slam champions, in Kerber (2016 Australian Open and US Open, 2018 Wimbledon), Stephens (2017 US Open) and Osaka (2018 US Open). Bertens’ best result at the majors is reaching the semifinals at 2016 Roland Garros

• Aged 18 and ranked No.202, Noami Osaka appeared in Singapore at the 2015 WTA Rising Stars Invitational, which brought together four players (Ons Jabeur, Caroline Garcia and Zhu Lin) after a fan vote to compete that the event. She defeated Caroline Garcia in the final to win the competition. Osaka returns three years later to compete at the WTA Finals in full, ranked No.4 in the world and a Grand Slam champion

• Stephens has posted the lowest amount of match wins (33) among all of the qualifiers • Both Osaka (No.4) and Bertens (No.9) are competing here on career-high rankings. Meanwhile Kerber, currently

ranked No.2, is playing on her highest-ranking since July 2017 (as World No.1) • Stephens is the only player to have a positive head-to-head record against all three of the player’s in her group,

overall going 6-1 versus the Red Group:

RED GROUP – HEAD-TO-HEADS - CAREER

KERBER OSAKA STEPHENS BERTENS

KERBER X 3-1 1-4 2-1 OSAKA 1-3 X 0-1 1-0 STEPHENS 4-1 1-0 X 1-0 BERTENS 1-2 0-1 0-1 X

ON THIS DAY October 22, 2014 World No.1 Serena Williams was beaten by Simona Halep at the WTA Finals in their first staging in Singapore, Halep running out the winner 6-0 6-2. It was Serena’s heaviest defeat since 1998, when she fell to Joannette Kruger 6-1 6-1 at Oklahoma City. Halep, then 23, said she had played "the best match of my life.” WTA TV – LIVE ACTION FROM SINGAPORE Every main draw match from Singapore is LIVE and ON DEMAND on wtatv.com. Catch the action at home or on the go. You won’t want to miss a minute of this year’s star-studded lineup in both singles and doubles. Want to watch multiple matches at once? On WTA TV, you can watch up to four matches simultaneously via the multibox. REMAINING MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 2 Monday Oct 22 7.30pm Singles RR (2) – Red Group Session 3 Tuesday Oct 23 7.30pm Singles RR (2) - White Group Session 4 Wednesday Oct 24 7.30pm Singles RR (2) - Red Group Session 5 Thursday Oct 25 1:30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - White Group Session 6 Thursday Oct 25 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - White Group Session 7 Friday Oct 26 1.30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) - Red Group Session 8 Friday Oct 26 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) - Red Group Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final




OSAKA

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• Is only third ever player from Japan to appear at WTA Finals, after Kimiko Date (1994-96) and Ai Sugiyama (2003). Best

result was Date’s run to SF in 1994 (l. Sabatini)

• Aged 21 (and 12 days), is youngest of all this year’s qualifiers



[3] NAOMI OSAKA (JPN #4) vs. [5] SLOANE STEPHENS (USA #6)


2016 HARD O QF SLOANE STEPHENS 77 mins 6-3 7-5 ACAPULCO

NAOMI OSAKA 4 4

16-10-1997 (21) $6,243,289 $7,478,197

2 / 2 0 / 0

40-17 / 80-56 4-1 / 15-13 4-4 / 13-15

SLOANE STEPHENS 6 6

20-03-1993 (25) $3,868,099 $12,176,203

1 / 6 0 / 0 0-0

33-18 / 192-130 8-8 / 60-43 3-8 / 47-27

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0-0

21-12 / 125-85 29-10 / 61-38 1-1 / 3-4 3-0 / 15-5

3-6 / 5-15 4-4 / 13-32 9-11 / 16-25 9-8 / 31-53




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• Aged 18 and ranked No.202, appeared in Singapore at the 2015 WTA Rising Stars invitational, which brought together four

players (Jabeur, Garcia and Zhu Lin) after a fan vote to compete at the event. Defeated Garcia in the final to win the

competition. Returns three years later to compete at the WTA Finals in full, ranked No.4 in the World and a Grand Slam

champion

• Contested qualifying this season at Doha – the last player to contest qualifying at an event and go on to appear at the WTA

Finals that season was Bouchard in 2014 (qualifying at Dubai)

• Appearing at WTA Finals on a career-high ranking of No.4 (first posted on October 8, 2018)

• Faces No.6 Stephens today in opening match – is 3-6 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ka.Pliskova and World

No.1 Halep (Indian Wells), and No.10 Goerges (Beijing)

• Has won 54-straight matches when winning the first set

• Has not lost a match when winning the first set since her final match of the 2016 season in Tianjin (vs. Kuznetsova in QF)

• Has played only five 3-set matches all season (4-1 record). The next fewest 3-set matches played among this year’s WTA

Finals competitors is 16 (Svitolina, Stephens, Wozniacki)

• With her this week in Singapore is Sascha Bajin (coach), Tamaki (mother), Stuart Duguid (agent), Abdul Sillah (fitness

trainer) and Natsuko Mogi (physio)

Season

• Won the first two titles of her career this season, at WTA Premier Mandatory level Indian Wells (d. Kasatkina in F) and debut

Grand Slam crown at US Open (d S.Williams in F)

• Reached one further final, at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Ka.Pliskova). Record in finals stands at 2-2, having also finished as R-Up at

2016 Toyo [PPO] (l. Wozniacki)

• US Open triumph made her was first Japanese woman to reach Grand Slam final and the youngest US Open champion since

Sharapova in 2006

• By reaching Tokyo [PPO] final, became first maiden Slam champion to make the final of her next event since Azarenka won

Australian Open and then Doha in 2012

• From her efforts in New York, passed USD $5 million in prize money for the season – No.2 (behind Halep) on the 2018 list

of top earners

• En route to the Indian Wells title, defeated five-time major champion Sharapova, and Grand Slam finalists A.Radwanska,

Ka.Pliskova and Halep without dropping a set. Only set dropped all week was against Sakkari in R16

• That eight-match win streak included victories over four players who have held the No.1 ranking (S. Williams, Ka. Pliskova,

Sharapova and current No.1, Halep) as well as a former No.2 (A.Radwanska), along with emerging talents Sakkari and

Kasatkina. Owns a 1-3 record against reigning No.1s (defeated Halep at 2018 Indian Wells and lost to Ka.Pliskova at 2017

Toronto and Halep at 2018 Australian Open and 2018 Rome)

• Other Grand Slam results were R16 at Australian Open (l. eventual R-Up Halep), 3r at Roland Garros (l. Keys) and 3r at

Wimbledon (l. eventual champion Kerber)

• Enjoyed SF runs at Nottingham (l. eventual champion Barty) and Beijing (l. Sevastova)

• Posted QF result at Dubai (l. eventual champion Svitolina)

• Had a R16 showing at Charleston (l. eventual R-Up Goerges)

• Reached 2r at Doha (as qualifier, l. Sevastova), Rome (l. Halep), Birmingham (ret. vs. Jakupovic w/abdominal injury) and

Washington DC (l. Linette)

• Also made 2r exit at Miami Open (l. No.4 seed Svitolina). Defeated eight-time Miami Open champion, S.Williams in 1r,

becoming just the seventh woman to defeat Williams in Key Biscayne and first to do so before the R16

• Posted 1r exits at Hobart (l. Putinseva), Madrid (l. Zhang), Montréal (l. Suárez Navarro) and Cincinnati (l. Sakkari)

• Forced to withdraw from three events this season, at Eastbourne (abdominal injury), Wuhan (viral illness) and Hong Kong

(back injury)

• Also played at Hopman Cup (went 1-1 in singles)

Career

• Produced second Top 100 season in 2017, finishing at No.68 as the Japanese No.1

• Book-ended the season with QF showings at Auckland and Hong Kong; other highlights included 3r runs at Wimbledon and

US Open

• Scored first Top 5 win when she upset No.5 V.Williams at 2017 Hong Kong. Upset win over defending champion and

No.6-ranked Kerber at 2017 US Open marked first career Top 10 win

• Overall owns three wins over Top 5 players: No.5 Ka.Pliskova and No.1 Halep (both at 2018 Indian Wells) and No.5

V.Williams (at 2017 Hong Kong)

• Finished 2016 at then career-high ranking of No.40, which was her first Top 200 finish; voted 2016 WTA Newcomer of the

Year

• Highlight of 2016 was career-first WTA final at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Wozniacki). Also reached three QFs, at Acapulco,

Florianopolis and Tianjin, and 3r at 2016 Australian Open, Roland Garros and US Open. Received direct entry into 2016

Wimbledon but withdrew w/right knee injury

• Won 2015 WTA Rising Stars Invitational in Singapore (d. Garcia in F, saving match points)

• Ranked No.406, made WTA main draw debut at 2014 Stanford. As an alternate, won through qualifying (achieving first WTA

qualifying wins in the process), and came from match point down to shock No.19 Stosur in 1r of main draw, before losing to

No.18 Petkovic in 2r

• Made WTA qualifying debut at Québec City in 2013 (l. Dabrowski)

Grand Slam History

• Defeated six-time champion S.Williams in final of 2018 US Open to become first Japanese player to win a Grand Slam title

• In reaching R16 at 2018 Australian Open, became youngest Japanese player to reach R16 at a Grand Slam since Sugiyama

at 1995 Roland Garros (19 yrs, 342 days) and the youngest player from Japan to reach the fourth round at Australian Open

since Date in 1990 (19 yrs, 122 days)

• Has also made 3r at the other two majors: 2016 Roland Garros (l. Halep) and 2018 Roland Garros (l. Keys), 2017

Wimbledon (l. V.Williams) and 2018 Wimbledon (l. Kerber)

Other Information

• Currently coached by Aleksandar (Sascha) Bajin, former hitting partner of Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka and Serena

Williams. Formerly coached by David Taylor, long-time coach of Sam Stosur

• Was born in Osaka, Japan, and moved to USA when she was three years old; holds dual citizenship. Currently lives in Fort

Lauderdale and trains in Boca Raton

• Sponsorship deals include Citizen, broadcaster WOWOW, Nissin (food brand) and Nissan (automobiles)

• Her father, Leonard Max Francois, was born in Haiti and attended college in NYC before moving to Japan where he lived for

13 years

• Her mother, Tamaki, is Japanese. Older sister Mari is also on tour

STEPHENS

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• Faces No.4 Osaka today – owns a 3-2 record vs. Top 5 opponents this season, defeating No.3 Muguruza and No.5

Ostapenko (Miami) and No.5 Svitolina (Montreal)

• Owns the least amount of wins this season among the qualifers (33 entering the WTA Finals)


Season



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• Helped make history in Miami as the USA provided the winners in all four events (Stephens, Vandeweghe, Isner and Bryan brothers)









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[1] ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #2) vs. [8] KIKI BERTENS (NED #9)

Head to Head: ANGELIQUE KERBER leads 2-1

2018 CLAY O R3 ANGELIQUE KERBER 112 mins 7-6(4) 7-6(4) ROLAND GARROS 2016 CLAY O R1 KIKI BERTENS 101 mins 6-2 3-6 6-3 ROLAND GARROS 2016 HARD O R3 ANGELIQUE KERBER 84 mins 1-6 6-2 3-0 MIAMI

ANGELIQUE KERBER 2 2

18-01-1988 (30) $5,382,362 $26,852,841

2 / 12 0 / 0

45-17 / 398-223 11-8 / 111-87 10-6 / 78-53

KIKI BERTENS 9 9

10-12-1991 (26) $2,666,688

$6,025,124 3 / 7

1 / 10 0-0

44-21 / 152-131 13-10 / 41-45 9-14 / 32-37

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6-8

24-13 / 62-82 27-10 / 259-143 3-1 / 32-19 4-4 / 15-9

5-8 / 36-57 10-5 / 13-18 13-12 / 85-109 13-8 / 21-34



* Updated entering Day 2 of 2018 WTA Finals

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ANGELIQUE KERBER 2016

F L - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #8) 6-3 6-4

SF W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #3) 6-2 6-1

RR W - MADISON KEYS (USA #7) 6-3 6-3


RR W - DOMINIKA CIBULKOVA (SVK #8) 7-6(5) 2-6 6-3 2015

RR L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #3) 6-4 6-4

RR W - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) 6-2 7-6(3)

RR L - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #9) 6-4 6-3


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KERBER

WTA Finals

• Making fifth appearance at WTA Finals, and first since 2016

• Best result is finishing as R-Up in 2016 (l. Cibulkova in F), simultaneously making SF and F debut that year. Posted

perfect 3-0 record in round robin stage, the 19th occasion a player has gone undefeated

• Had never previously progressed beyond the round robin stage, going 0-3 in 2012 (l. Li Na, Azarenka, S.Williams), and

1-2 in 2013 (d. A.Radwanska, l. Kvitova, S.Williams) and 2015 (d. Kvitova, l. Muguruza, Safarova)

• Needed to win one set vs. Safarova in 2015 to qualify for SF, however lost 64 63


• Was second player to qualify for WTA Finals this season (after Halep), securing her place during the US Open

• Is the No.1 seed at the WTA Finals, following withdrawal of Halep (lower back injury). The top seed has won the title 22

times at the season-ending event. In 2014, S.Williams became the first to do so since 2007 (Justine Henin)

• Ranked No.2 this week in Singapore, her highest ranking since July 3, 2017 (at No.1)

• One of two left-handed players this week in Singapore (also Kvitova). The last left-handed player to win the WTA Finals was

Kvitova in 2011 (d. Azarenka in F)

• In 2012 was the first German to qualify since 1999 (Anke Huber). The last German to win the WTA Finals was Stefanie

Graf in 1996

• Oldest qualifier this year, aged 30 years 9 months 10 days. Is fifth year in a row there has only been one 30-year-old in the

draw, dating back to 2013

• Faces No.9 Bertens today – is 5-8 vs. Top 10 opponents in 2018, defeating No.5 V.Williams (Sydney), No.5 Ka.Pliskova

(Dubai), No.10 Kvitova (Stuttgart) and No.7 Garcia (at both Indian Wells and Roland Garros)

• With her this week in Singapore is Joschi Thron (agent), Andre Wiesler (hitting partner), Andre Kreidler (physio) and Beata

(Mother)


2013



RR L - PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #6) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 2012

RR L - VICTORIA AZARENKA (BLR #1) 6-7(11) 7-6(2) 6-4

RR L - NA LI (CHN #8) 6-4 6-3



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Season

• Has won two titles this season, at Sydney (d. Barty in F) and third Grand Slam crown of career at Wimbledon (d. S.Williams

in F)

• Record in tour-level finals stands at 12-16 – her 28 final appearances is the joint tenth-most among active players (level

with A.Radwanska)

• Has shown marked improvement in 2018 from last season:

Return games won: +12.5% (31.8% to 44.3%)

Break Points Converted: +10.0% (39.1% to 49.1%)

Wins vs. Top 20: +12 wins (from 1-12 in 2017 to 13-12 in 2018)

• Sydney title ended 27-tournament drought (dating back to 2016 US Open)

• Triumph at the All England Club made her the first German woman to win there since Graf in 1996

• Kerber hit only five unforced errors in the final vs. S.Williams in just 67 minutes. The win moved Kerber to No.4 in the WTA

Rankings, moving her back into the Top 5 after a near-11 month absence

• Posted SF runs at Australian Open (l. Halep in 3s, having held two match points), Dubai (l. eventual champion Svitolina)

and Eastbourne (l. eventual champion Wozniacki having held match point). Returned to Top 10 following Eastbourne

result – at No.10

• Reached five QFs this season, at Doha (l. Wozniacki in 3s), back-to-back during the ‘Sunshine Double’ at Indian Wells (l.

eventual R-Up Kasatkina) and Miami (l. eventual champion Stephens), Rome (l. eventual champion Svitolina) and Roland

Garros (l. eventual champion Halep)

• Roland Garros QF was best result in Paris of career

• Had R16 showings at Stuttgart (l. Kontaveit via ret. w/right thigh injury), Cincinnati (l. Keys), Wuhan (l. Barty) and Beijing

(l. Zhang Shuai)

• Reached 3r at US Open (l. Cibulkova in 3s)

• 2r exit at Montréal (after 1r bye, l. Cornet) and 1r exit at Mallorca in a darkness delayed match (l. Riske)

• Withdrew from Madrid due to a right thigh injury and Tokyo [PPO] due to an ankle injury

• Lost to Ka.Pliskova and Kvitova during Germany’s Fed Cup semifinal defeat to Czech Republic

• Represented Germany at Hopman Cup w/A. Zverev (R-up to Switzerland, d. Bencic in singles rubber)

• Win-loss record in 2018 stands at 45-17 entering WTA Finals, improving on 29-24 from 2017

Career

• Ended 2017 on a ranking of No.21 – sixth consecutive Top 25 season. Best results of season were R-Up finish at

Monterrey and SFs at Tokyo [PPO] (l. Pavlyuchenkova) and Dubai (l. Svitolina)

• Enjoyed an outstanding 2016 season, winning first Grand Slam titles of career at Australian Open (d. S.Williams in F) and

US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F), finishing R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams in F) and rising to World No.1 in the WTA

rankings

• Courtesy of her results in 2016, doubled her career prize money during season, passing $19 million mark; passed $20

million at 2017 Roland Garros, becoming 15th player to do so

• After 2016 US Open, aged 28, became oldest player to make her debut at World No.1, a record previously held by

Jennifer Capriati, who was 25 years, 200 days when she reached No.1 in October 2001

• Secured the 2016 year-end World No.1 ranking –became 12th WTA player to achieve the feat and second German

woman to do so after Graf (eight times)

• Was voted WTA Player of the Year in 2016 by international media and fans; also, ITF World Champion

• 2016 marked fifth successive Top 10 season finish. Was the WTA match win leader in 2016, going 63-18

• Posted the most wins against Top 10 opponents in 2016, going 12-3, including defeats of No.8 Cibulkova, No.4 Halep,

No.7 Keys and No.3 A.Radwanska in Singapore, as well as No.1 S.Williams (Australian Open), No.6 Halep (Fed Cup),

No.7 Kvitova (Stuttgart), No.5 Halep and No.8 V.Williams (Wimbledon), No.10 Keys (Rio Olympics), No.4 Halep

(Cincinnati) and No.8 Vinci (US Open)

• Reached a career-best total of eight finals across the 2016 season (most finals of any player); as well as winning first two

majors, successfully defended title on home soil at Stuttgart (d. Siegemund in F)

• 2016 Stuttgart marked first time she had successfully defended a title in her career; the first German (and seventh player

overall) to do so in Stuttgart

• Made fourth appearance at WTA Finals in 2016, progressing past round-robin for first time (l. Cibulkova in F); first German

to reach final at the season-ending championships since Graf won title in 1996

• Other runner-up finishes in 2016 came at Brisbane (l. Azarenka in F), Wimbledon (l. S.Williams in F), Rio Olympics (l. Puig,

won silver medal)

• Reached first WTA final of career at 2010 Bogotá and won first title at 2012 Paris [Indoors]. Has won titles on all surfaces:

hardcourt, grass and clay (red and green) Career record in tour-level finals stands at 12 -16

• Made first WTA appearance in qualifying at 2003 Berlin

Grand Slam History

• 2018 US Open marked 44th Grand Slam main draw appearance. Is a three-time Grand Slam champion, winning 2016

Australian Open (d. S.Williams in F), 2016 US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F) and 2018 Wimbledon (d. S.Williams in F)

• At 2016 Australian Open, became first German to win a Grand Slam singles title since Graf at 1999 Roland Garros (d.

Hingis in F). At the time was the fourth player to defeat S.Williams in a Grand Slam final (after V.Williams, Sharapova and

Stosur; since joined by Muguruza and Osaka)

• Also became first Grand Slam champion to save match point en route to the title since Li at 2014 Australian Open (Kerber

saved a match point in 1r win over Doi) and was the first left-handed player to win a Grand Slam singles title since Kvitova

at 2014 Wimbledon

• Won second Grand Slam singles title at US Open (d. Ka.Pliskova in F) and rose to World No.1; was 22nd player to hold

WTA World No.1 ranking, and second German woman to achieve milestone since computer rankings were introduced in

1975 (after Graf, who spent the last of her record 377 weeks at No.1 in March 1997)

• Became the first German since 1996 to win Wimbledon in 2018, her third career Grand Slam singles title (d. S.Williams

in F). Kerber hit only five unforced errors in the match to oust Williams in just 67 minutes. The win moved Kerber to No.4 in

the WTA Rankings, moving her back into the Top 5 after a near-11 month absence

• In 2016, also finished R-Up at Wimbledon (l. S.Williams). Is fourth player in Open Era to reach three Grand Slam finals in

the same year they reached their first, after Goolagong Cawley (1971), Graf (1987) and Hingis (1997)

• Roland Garros remains the only major where she has yet to reach the final. Best results are a pair of QF runs in 2012 (l.

eventual R-Up Errani) and 2018 (l. eventual champion Halep)

Other Information

• Currently without a coach, having ended partnership with Wim Fissette earlier this month. Previously worked with Torben

Beltz

• In January 2017 was named in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Europe (in the entertainment category), alongside the likes of

Gareth Bale and Luis Suárez

• Speaks three languages: German, Polish, and English

BERTENS

WTA Finals






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1996

• Owns ten wins against Top 10 players this season, the most on WTA Tour entering 2018 WTA Finals. Defeats came

over No.2 Wozniacki and No.7 Garcia (Madrid), No.9 V.Williams and No.8 Ka.Pliskova (Wimbledon), No.9

Ka.Pliskova and No.8 Kvitova (Montreal), No.2 Wozniacki, No.7 Svitolina, No.6 Kvitova and World No.1 Halep

(Cincinnati). Prior to 2018, only had three Top 10 wins in her career

• Owns the longest active streak of Top 10 wins (eight)



• Faces No.2 Kerber today – owns a 3-4 record vs. World No.1 and No.2 players. Losses came to No.2 Kvitova (2015

Wimbledon), No.1 S.Williams (2015 US Open), No.1 S.Williams (2016 Roland Garros) and No.2 Wozniacki (2018

Australian Open), with wins coming against No.2 Wozniacki (Madrid) and No.2 Wozniacki and No.1 Halep

(Cincinnati)

• Owns a 44-21 record this year, the most tour-level main draw wins of her career, and an improvement on 2017’s

record of 32-26


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• Having also defeated No.2 Wozniacki en route to Cincinatti title, is first player to defeat the World No.1 and







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ORDER OF PLAY – DAY ONE (OCTOBER 21) - SINGAPORE INDOOR STADIUM Start at 5pm

[4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7) Kvitova leads 7-1 Not before 7.30pm

[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8) Wozniacki leads 6-3 ROUND ROBIN STANDINGS WHITE GROUP RED GROUP PLAYER MATCH




[2] WOZNIACKI 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [1] KERBER 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [4] KVITOVA 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [3] OSAKA 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [6] SVITOLINA 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [5] STEPHENS 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [7] PLISKOVA 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 [8] BERTENS 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000

ABOUT THE WHITE GROUP PLAYER RANK NAT AGE WTA FINALS

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CAREER W/L

CAREER TITLES


Includes Moscow results excluding YTD and Career Prize Money Ranking based on week of October 22, 2018

• The White Group features the two players who have won the most matches in 2018 – both Petra Kvitova and Karolina

Pliskova have posted 47 wins entering the WTA Finals • Two Grand Slam champions are featured, in the form of Kvitova (2011, 2014 Wimbledon) and Caroline Wozniacki

(2018 Australian Open). Pliskova reached the 2016 US Open final, while Elina Svitolina’s best Grand Slam result is reaching the quarterfinal stage three times (2015, 2017 Roland Garros, 2018 Australian Open)

• Wozniacki is the defending champion at the WTA Finals. The title has not been defended here since 2014, which marked the end of Serena Williams’ three-peat, having triumphed at the season-ending event from 2012 to 2014


• Svitolina has posted the second-lowest amount of match wins of all the eight qualifiers, with 39 (the Red Group’s Sloane Stephens has 33)















• Svitolina and Wozniacki were both nominated in in the WTA Awards this year – Svitolina won the Jerry Diamond ACES Award, in recognition of her promotion of women’s tennis to fans, media, and local communities by performing off-court promotional and charitable activities. Wozniacki lost out in the Player of the Year category to Simona Halep





MATCH SCHEDULE SESSION DAY TIME MATCHES Session 1 Sunday Oct 21 5.00pm Singles RR (2) Session 2 Monday Oct 22 7.30pm Singles RR (2) Session 3 Tuesday Oct 23 7.30pm Singles RR (2) Session 4 Wednesday Oct 24 7.30pm Singles RR (2) Session 5 Thursday Oct 25 1:30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) Session 6 Thursday Oct 25 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) Session 7 Friday Oct 26 1.30pm Doubles (1), NB 4pm Singles RR (1) Session 8 Friday Oct 26 7.30pm Singles RR (1), Doubles (1) Session 9 Saturday Oct 27 1.30pm Doubles SF (1), NB 4pm Singles SF (1) Session 10 Saturday Oct 27 7.30pm Singles SF (1), Doubles SF (1) Session 11 Sunday Oct 28 4.00pm Doubles Final, NB 7.30pm Singles Final Subject to change RR = Round Robin





[4] PETRA KVITOVA (CZE #5) vs. [6] ELINA SVITOLINA (UKR #7)


2018 HARD O R16 PETRA KVITOVA 90 mins 6-4 7-5 DOHA 2016 HARD O F PETRA KVITOVA 71 mins 6-4 6-2 ZHUHAI 2016 HARD O R2 PETRA KVITOVA 61 mins 6-3 6-1 WUHAN 2016 HARD O R3 PETRA KVITOVA 71 mins 6-3 6-4 US OPEN 2016 HARD O QF PETRA KVITOVA 6-2 6-0 OLYMPICS 2015 HARD O R2 PETRA KVITOVA 107 mins 2-6 6-3 6-2 DUBAI 2014 HARD O SF PETRA KVITOVA 96 mins 6-3 7-5 WUHAN 2014 HARD O R2 ELINA SVITOLINA 100 mins 6-2 7-6(2) CINCINNATI

PETRA KVITOVA 5 5

08-03-1990 (28) $3,150,389 $27,191,207

5 / 25 0 / 0

47-14 / 398-186 17-5 / 120-76

7-7 / 78-57

ELINA SVITOLINA 7 7

12-09-1994 (24) $2,877,247 $10,248,625

3 / 12 0 / 2 1-2

39-15 / 221-124 10-6 / 66-41 3-6 / 44-33

WTA RANKING







10-8

28-10 / 158-83 26-10 / 263-128 3-2 / 44-14 5-3 / 19-21

7-1 / 52-47 4-3 / 24-32 15-5 / 99-81 9-6 / 42-61



* Updated entering Day One at 2018 WTA Finals

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PETRA KVITOVA 2015


SF W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #4) 6-3 7-6(3)

RR L - GARBIÑE MUGURUZA (ESP #3) 6-4 4-6 7-5

RR L - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #7) 6-2 7-6(3)

RR W - LUCIE SAFAROVA (CZE #9) 7-5 7-5






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KVITOVA:

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• Making her sixth appearance at the WTA Finals, and first since 2015. Among active players, owns joint third-most appearances at the season-ending event

• WTA Finals champion on debut in 2011 (d. Azarenka in F) - one of only four players to win the title on first attempt (also S.Williams in 2001, Sharapova in 2004 and Cibulkova in 2016). Went 3-0 in RR stage, one of only seven players to post perfect RR record and go on to win the title

• Also R-Up on last outing here in 2015 (l. A.Radwanska in F). That year, posted a 1-2 record in the round robin stage – one of only four players to post a 1-2 record and reach the final – also V.Williams in 2000 (l. S.Williams), A.Radwanska in 2015 (d. Kvitova) and Cibulkova in 2016 (d. Kerber)

• Other results here read RR stage in 2012 (l. A.Radwanska in first match then withdrew w/ injury), SF in 2013 (l. Li Na) and RR stage in 2014 (1-2 record, d. Sharapova, l. A.Radwanska, Wozniacki)



• Entering 2018 WTA Finals, owns joint-most match wins this season (47, level with Ka.Pliskova)

• Joined in White Group by fellow Czech Ka.Pliskova – Czech Republic have had at least one player compete every year at WTA Finals (in singles) since 2011



2014

RR W - MARIA SHARAPOVA (RUS #2) 6-3 6-2

RR L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #6) 6-2 6-3

RR L - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #8) 6-2 6-3 2013

SF L - NA LI (CHN #5) 6-4 6-2



RR W - ANGELIQUE KERBER (GER #9) 6-7(3) 6-2 6-3 2012

RR L - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #4) 6-3 6-2 2011


SF W - SAMANTHA STOSUR (AUS #7) 5-7 6-3 6-3

RR W - AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA (POL #8) 7-6(4) 6-3

RR W - CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #1) 6-4 6-2

RR W - VERA ZVONAREVA (RUS #6) 6-2 6-4


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• Faces No.7 Svitolina today – owns a 7-1 record vs. Top 10 players this season (level with Kasatkina, trailing Sabalenka, 8, and Bertens, 10). Wins this season have come over No.6 Ostapenko and No.10 Mladenovic (St. Petersburg), No.3 Svitolina, No.10 Goerges and No.1 Wozniacki and No.4 Muguruza (Doha) and No.6 Ka.Pliskova (Madrid). Loss came to No.5 Ostapenko (Miami)

• With her this week in Singapore is Jiri Vanek (coach), David Vydra (fitness trainer), Marijn Bal (agent) and Jiri and Pavla (parents)

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• Enjoyed a 14-match winning streak between St. Petersburg (5), Fed Cup 2), Doha (6) and Indian Wells (1), bettering her



Highlighted indicates streak from this season

• Defence of Birmingham title means she has successfully defended a title twice in career, also at New Haven in 2014-15





• Posted R16 runs at Miami (as No.9 seed, l. eventual R-Up Ostapenko), Eastbourne (withdrew prior to match vs. A.Radwnaksa








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• Enters 2018 WTA Finals with a 39-15 record this season (second-lowest amount of wins of all this year’s qualifiers –

Stephens has 33)

• Faces No.5 Kvitova today – owns a 2-2 record vs. Top 5 opponents this season, defeating No.5 Ka.Pliskova (Brisbane)

and No.1 Halep (Rome), and losing to No.5 Ostapenko and No.3 Stephens (Montreal)



fans, media, and local communities by performing off-court promotional and charitable activities

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[2] CAROLINE WOZNIACKI (DEN #3) vs. [7] KAROLINA PLISKOVA (CZE #8)

Head to Head: CAROLINE WOZNIACKI leads 6-3

2017 HARD I R2 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 117 mins 7-6(9) 6-3 WTA FINALS 2017 HARD O QF KAROLINA PLISKOVA 67 mins 6-2 6-4 CINCINNATI 2017 HARD O QF CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 176 mins 7-5 6-7(3) 6-4 TORONTO 2017 GRASS O F KAROLINA PLISKOVA 81 mins 6-4 6-4 EASTBOURNE 2017 HARD O S CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 136 mins 5-7 6-1 6-1 MIAMI 2017 HARD O F KAROLINA PLISKOVA 79 mins 6-3 6-4 DOHA 2014 HARD O QF CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 100 mins 6-1 3-6 6-2 ISTANBUL 2014 HARD O QF CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 125 mins 6-7(3) 6-3 6-3 MONTERREY 2013 HARD O R2 CAROLINE WOZNIACKI 138 mins 5-7 6-3 6-3 MIAMI


11-07-1990 (28) $5,703,719 $32,538,413

3 / 30 0 / 2

40-15 / 572-237 11-5 / 147-78

6-7 / 89-79


21-03-1992 (26) $2,578,730 $13,414,121

2 / 11 0 / 5 3-4

47-20 / 255-139 16-4 / 81-43 12-8 / 54-56

WTA RANKING







13-8

30-13 / 182-91 25-10 / 411-160 4-2 / 57-28 7-3 / 22-19

2-0 / 60-65 4-4 / 24-33 7-5 / 131-104 7-9 / 48-63




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• Dropped only 17 games across three round robin matches last year – the fourth fewest in the tournament’s history:

NAME GAMES YEAR RR RECORD Justine Henin* 11 2007 37-11 (.771)

Amélie Mauresmo 15 2004 37-15 (.712) Serena Williams* 15 2013 36-15 (.706)

Caroline Wozniacki* 17 2017 38-19 (.691) Maria Sharapova 18 2006 36-18 (.667)

Kim Clijsters 18 2006 32-18 (.640) * went on to win WTA Finals title

• Faces No.8 Ka.Pliskova today – is 2-0 vs. Top 10 players in 2018, defeating No.1 Halep (Australian Open) and No.9

Kerber (Doha)

• With her this week in Singapore is Piotr Wozniacki (father and coach), Michael Przysiezny (hitting partner), Julien Cassainge (agent) and David Lee (fiancé)

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• During Eastbourne, win over Konta in Eastbourne 3r was 50th grass court win, becoming just the seventh active player

with as many wins on the surface (also S.Williams, V.Williams, Sharapova, A.Radwanska, Kerber and Jankovic)















Career





• Also defended title at Tokyo [PPO] (d. Pavlyuchenkova in F) and reached a further six finals in 2017, finishing as

• R-Up at Doha (l. Ka.Pliskova) and Dubai (l. Svitolina) in back‐to‐back weeks, and then Miami (l. Konta), Eastbourne (l.
















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and Kvitova in 2011

• Joint-match win leader this season entering 2018 WTA Finals, going 47-21 across the season (level with Kvitova)

• Faces No.3 Wozniacki today – is 2-1 when facing Top 5 players in 2018, defeating No.5 Ostapenko (Stuttgart) and World

No.1 Halep (Madrid). Loss came to World No.1 Halep (Australian Open)


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