Lucie Safarova grabbed the last spot at the WTA Finals in Singapore after Carla Suárez Navarro lost, 6-1, 6-2, to the qualifier Daria Kasatkina at the Kremlin Cup in Moscow. Suárez could have qualified for the season-ending tournament by reaching the final in Moscow.
u25a0 Lukas Rosol defeated the former champion Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna, dealing a blow to Tsonga’s chances of qualifying for the ATP finals. At the start of the week, Tsonga was ninth in this year’s standings, with only the top eight advancing to the season-ending tournament in London in November.