<p><a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/article/gauff-beats-pegula-swiatek-prevails-in-her-first-match-after-two-months-23423242" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Coco Gauff</strong></a> won the WTA Finals for the first time by rallying to beat Olympic champion Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) in the final.</p>
<p>The 20-year-old American came from 2-0 and 5-3 down in the final set and was two points from defeat at one stage.</p>
<p>Yet she took the set to a tiebreaker and won the first six points. Zheng threatened a comeback but Gauff took the victory off her third match point with a forehand winner as she came into the net.</p>
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<p>She is the first American to win the Finals since Serena Williams in 2014, and received $4.8 million in prize money. She also is the youngest player to win it since Maria Sharapova in 2004, the year Gauff was born.</p>
<p>Gauff beat the world&rsquo;s top two players &mdash; <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/sports/other-sports/article/sabalenka-takes-the-cake-23424610" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"><strong>Aryna Sabalenka</strong></a> and Iga Swiatek &mdash; on her run to the final at the season-ending event in Riyadh.</p>
<p>She felt vindicated after that and appeared to take a swipe at observers who wrote her off.</p>
<p>&ldquo;I just love to say I&rsquo;m right. Specifically today, I got comments about how I was going to lose badly, so I was just like, &lsquo;OK, we&rsquo;ll see,&rsquo; &rdquo; Gauff explained. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s honestly just liking the idea of just proving people wrong and, and letting your racquet do the talking. And so, yeah, I use it as motivation.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Gauff edged the three-hour final which included 26 break points. Gauff also won their only previous meeting, in the Rome quarter-final on clay in May.</p>
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After beating Zheng Qinwen 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (2) to win the WTA Finals, USA’s Coco Gauff hits back at naysayers; says proving people wrong serves as motivation

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