Game-by-game updates from the final in SingaporeEmail Daniel or tweet @DanielHarris 1.57pm GMT *Stephens 6-3 2-6 2-4 Svitolina (*denotes server)Svitolina’s coach says she’s playing too flat from outside the baseline, and to copy Stephens’ shape then go flat from inside. He points out that Stephens isn’t enjoying the physical points – the question is whether, if Stephens finds her angles again, she can make them thus. But it’s Svitolina imposing her will, and she breaks to 15! What moxie! 1.53pm GMT Stephens 6-3 2-6 2-3 Svitolina* (*denotes server)Has Stephens found a second wind? She gets to 0-30 which makes it six points in a row, but Svitolina produces a brilliant serve, comes to the net to clean up … and somehow Stephens reads it, blocking back a winner! Three break-back points! Svitolina saves one, but Stephens pounds her out thereafter, even though she’s made to hit two overheads when she’d have thought one will suffice. Back on serve! Continue reading…
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