Svitolina downs Wozniacki to win in Toronto

Elina Svitolina won her fifth WTA title of the season, beating Caroline Wozniacki 6-4 6-0 in the final of the Rogers Cup. The Ukranian, who beat Venus Williams, Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep en route to the title, becomes the first woman in WTA history to win three Premier 5 titles in the same year.

In tight opening exchanges, the pair were locked at 4-4 in the opening set when the match turned. Svitolina secured her second break of the match to lead 5-4, before serving out the opener.

If the first had been a tightly-contested affair, the second was anything but. Svitolina marched away from the tiring Dane, winning six straight games and securing her maiden Rogers Cup crown.

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“It was an incredible week,” Svitolina said after the win. “I played against great players, I beat them, and it’s just something really amazing and I am very, very tired.”

“I left everything out there. It’s been incredible that I could go through this. I didn’t even think that I could.”

Svitolina continues to go from strength to strength. The Ukranian not only set a new WTA Premier 5 record, but will move up to world No.4 when the new rankings are released on Monday.

For Wozniacki, though, it was the sixth-straight defeat in a WTA final in 2017. There were positives for the Dane, who had not won a Rogers Cup match in Toronto before this week.

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“It was a tough day. She played well. She mixed up the pace and made it uncomfortable for me out there,” Wozniacki told the WTA. “Today, probably I could have used some more pace, but she played really smart today and used my pace to her advantage.

“I wasn’t really expecting much out of myself when I came into the tournament. Obviously I haven’t won a match [in Toronto] before, but it was a good week and I beat some great players, and I can really take a lot with me and be proud of that.”