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Kuznetzova edges Pliskova
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Svetlana Kuznetsova’s hard-fought 3-6 6-2 7-6 victory over Karolina Pliskova maintained her winning run at the WTA Finals in Singapore.
Despite having never progressed past the group stage of the season-ending tournament on five previous occasions, a second victory of the week has given her the best possible chance of progress to the last four.
Most of those following the season finale of the WTA Tour will have given this match only a cursory glance, awaiting the more tempting fixture of Garbine Muguruza and Agnieszka Radwanska, but those who tuned in were rewarded with a lengthy battle, and compelling comeback story.
This year, Kuznetsova qualified at the last possible moment, scraping into the draw with a title defence in Moscow and arriving as an outsider.
Just as she did in her opening match of the event, during which she came from a match point down to topple reigning champion Agnieszka Radwanska, the Russian discarded the form book, and fought hard for a well-deserved victory.
After a poor start, allowing Pliskova to tear into a one set lead, Kuznetsova could have gone one of two ways: clearing her mind and staging an improbable comeback, or crying …
