After ending her six-year title drought at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow, Julia Goerges punched a last-minute qualifying ticket for the Hengqin Life WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai, where she continued the excellent form, racing through the tournament without dropping a set and lifting her second champion’s trophy in two weeks. The German’s victim in the final was American Coco Vandeweghe, 7-5 6-1.
The second-seeded Vandeweghe earned a 5-2 lead in the first set, even though only 36% of her first serves got in, but then as she failed to serve it out at 5-3, she got furious, tossed her racquet and the seventh-seeded Goerges reeled off 11 of the last 12 games for her ninth consecutive match win.