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WTA Moscow: Belinda Bencic with comeback win against Pavlyuchenkova

The Swiss Belinda Bencic won the title at the WTA tournament in Moscow.

by Florian Goosmann
last edit: Oct 20, 2019, 04:08 pm

Bencic beat local hero Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 3: 6, 6: 1, 6: 1 to celebrate her second tournament this year - her eleventh overall.

The 22-year-old also qualified for the WTA Finals in Shenzhen with her win on Saturday; Thanks to her final triumph, she is now seventh in the annual ranking. In addition to 470 ranking points Bencic also takes 180.520 US dollars.

Bencic had already cracked the top ten in the summer of 2016, but was then plagued by injuries - in the meantime even from the top 300. The season 2019, she had started in 54th place.