Tennis player Vera Zvonareva made it to the final WTA tournament – Kommersant
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39-year-old Russian Vera Zvonareva will take part in the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun, the final tournament of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), which will be held in Cancun, Mexico from October 28 to November 5. She will perform there in doubles with 35-year-old German Laura Siegemund. They managed to get a ticket to this prestigious competition at the last minute thanks to the title won today at the Jiangxi Open – a WTA 250 category tournament with a prize fund of $260 thousand that ended in Nanchang, China, after defeating the Japanese duo Eri Hozumi – Makoto Ninomiya in the final – 6: 4, 6:2.
It is interesting that in the event of a defeat in this match, Zvonareva and Siegemund would only need 5 rating points to get into the list of the eight best couples in the world this season. As a result, they will be seeded sixth in Kanun, following the pairs Jessica Pegula-Coco Gauff (USA), Storm Hunter-Elise Mertens (Australia-Belgium), Shuko Aoyama-Ena Shibahara (Japan), Barbora Krejcik-Katerina Siniakova ( Czech Republic) and Demi Schuurs-Desiree Krawczyk (Netherlands-USA), but ahead of the duets Gabriela Dabrowski-Erin Routliffe (Canada-New Zealand) and Nicole Melichar-Ellen Perez (USA-Australia).
Zvonareva and Siegemund, whose combined age is 74, won three WTA titles this year (Washington, Ningbo, Nanchang), reached the final of the US Open and were the most experienced duo in this eight. Moreover, in the first hundred of the WTA doubles rankings, where Zvonareva and Siegemund will occupy 16th and 9th places from Monday, respectively, there is no older tennis player than the Russian.
The total prize fund of the GNP Seguros WTA Finals Cancun will be $9 million. In singles there will be: Arina Sabalenka (Belarus), Iga Schwiatek (Poland), Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina (USA), Jessica Pegula, Uns Jabir (Tunisia), Marketa Vondrousova and Karolina Muchova (both Czech Republic).
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