Caroline Garcia wins biggest title of her career at WTA Finals
Garcia, who is the reigning world No. 1, takes the crown, surpassing Mary Pierce and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova by a slim margin, at WTA’s U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York.
Caroline Garcia (C) takes the WTA Championships trophy against American Bethanie Mattek-Sands (L) during the WTA Finals at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Flushing, New York, U.S., on Saturday. Photo: Reuters
Caroline Garcia (C) takes the WTA Championships trophy…
Caroline Garcia (C) takes the WTA Championships trophy against American Bethanie Mattek-Sands…
Garcia, who is the reigning world No. 1, takes the crown, surpassing Mary Pierce and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova by a slim margin, at WTA’s U.S. Open in Flushing Meadows, New York. Photo: Reuters
The U.S. Open title gave Garcia, who is the reigning world No. 1, her first major win, her first Grand Slam title and her first major singles title in her 18-year professional career. The 23-year-old will become the first British woman to claim a WTA title since Tracy Austin in 1998 and has been named WTA’s Best Player of the year.
Garcia, who is a former world No. 50, will be the first British woman since Kim Clijsters in 1998 to win an Olympic gold, a grand slam and the WTA title at the same time. Garcia, who took out Mary Pierce 7-5, 6-4 in the final, will now take on Australian Johanna Konta and defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska at the WTA Championships next week in New Haven.
But Garcia, who is the reigning world No. 1, will go down as one of the greatest players of all time – one of the three best players of her generation and the fourth in history to have won the WTA’s biggest tournaments in all three of their disciplines – and the first British woman to take the biggest titles of her career.