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Gavrilova goes down in maiden WTA final

 

Gavrilova goes down in maiden WTA final

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Gavrilova goes down in maiden WTA final
Rio 2016 Olympian Daria Gavrilova has lost her maiden WTA final after going down in straight sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Kremlin Cup.

TENNIS: Rio 2016 Olympian Daria Gavrilova has lost her maiden WTA final after going down in straight sets to Svetlana Kuznetsova at the Kremlin Cup.

The Russian took a little more than an hour to defeat Gavrilova 6-2 6-1 in Moscow on Saturday, which qualifies her for the WTA finals in Singapore.

The top-seeded Russian saved six of the seven break points she faced and converted six of her eight opportunities to beat the 38th-ranked Gavrilova in 72 minutes.

Melbourne-based Gavrilova, playing in her former home town of Moscow, made it to her first WTA final after dispatching highly rated 2014 champion Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Germany’s Julia Goerges.

Despite the result it has been a strong year for Gavrilova. 

She progressed through to the round of 16 of the Australian Open, wore the green and gold as she made her Olympic debut in Rio and currently sits 37th in the WTA rankings. 

 

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