Annette Kontaveit registered her 12th consecutive WTA match win.© AFP
Annette Kontaveit defeated third seed Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-0 on Friday to reach the semi-finals End of Season WTA Finals, The eighth-seeded Estonian recorded their 12th consecutive WTA match win and was assured of finishing in the top two of their group in the round-robin stage. Kontaveit, whose winning streak included titles in Moscow and Cluj-Napoca, defeated French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova in her first match of the tournament.
She needed only 57 minutes to overtake Pliskova, won 24 of her 29 first-serve points and claimed the last eight games for the first win of her career over the Czechs in four meetings.
The collective action against Garbine Muguruza along with Krejcikova continued on Friday.
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This year the elite tournament was moved from its usual home in Shenzhen, China to Guadalajara due to the coronavirus pandemic.
World number one Ashleigh Barty of Australia is not defending her title due to continuing pandemic travel restrictions.
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