Serena rallies past Li to take WTA crown
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Serena Williams ended the best season of her career in suitable style, coming from behind to beat Li Na 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 in Istanbul yesterday for her second straight WTA Championship.
Williams collected her 11th title of the year and became the first player to defend the title since Belgian Justine Henin in 2007.
The American won her fourth WTA Championship, having captured the elite tournament of the eight top-ranked players also in her debut in 2001 and in 2009 and 2012.
Williams has won 78 of 82 matches this year and will finish the year as the top-ranked player for the third time in her career after 2002 and 2009.
Li was in her first WTA Championship final and will finish the year at a career-high No. 3.
But there was some joy for China as Peng Shui teamed up with Hsieh Su-wei of Chinese Taipei to take the doubles crown earlier in the day.
The second-seeded duo beat Russians Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina 6-4, 7-5.
In Basel, Switzerland, Juan Martin del Potro denied Roger Federer his hometown Swiss Indoors title for the second straight year, winning the final 7-6 (3), 2-6, 6-4 yesterday.
The top-seeded Argentine clinched the title when Federer could not return a forcing forehand.
Federer looked to the home comforts and raucous support at Basel, where he is a five-time champion, to revive his difficult season and has now won just one title in the past 14 months.
Still, the sixth-ranked Swiss edged closer to securing his place in the eight-man lineup at the ATP World Tour Finals in London starting a week on Monday.
Del Potro earned his fourth title this season.
In Valencia, Spain, Mikhail Youzhny beat top-seeded David Ferrer 6-3, 7-5, to win the Valencia Open yesterday.
The 31-year-old Russian dominated the No. 3-ranked Ferrer throughout, breaking the defending champion and home-town favorite four times on the indoor hardcourt.
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