Second WTA title for Qiang Wang

Latest results from the WTA Tour

WTA Guangzhou final 

• Qiang Wang (3) defeated Yulia Putintseva (5) to capture the Guangzhou International Women’s Open, her second career WTA title, both coming in 2018, and both in China.

Unbroken throughout the match, Qiang Wang hit 25 winners in her 6-1 6-2 victory, which completed a tournament without dropping a set.

In fact only 18 games were conceded by the champion all week, the fewest by any winner of a WTA title winner this year.

Qiang Wang now sits at 34 in the world rankings, a new career high, previously 41, becoming the new Chinese number one.

WTA Tokyo semi finals

• Naomi Osaka (3), 2018 US Open champion, celebrated her newly found status in her in front of a Japanese crowd, powering into the final of the Toray Pan Pacific Open, defeating Camila Giorgi.

The Osaka serve was virtually impenetrable in the opening set, where only two points were conceded to Giorgi from eighteen available.

Never facing a break point in the entire match, Osaka was leading 6-2 2-2, before deciding to finish off Giorgi’s more competitive set two display with a final streak of four games.

6-2 6-3 earned a meeting with Karolina Pliskova (4) in the finale.

• Pliskova paid farewell to Donna Vekic, but it took three sets to do it, the third such requirement in as many matches for the Czech number two player.

After taking the first set easily, Pliskova found her second serve massacred in set two, and subsequently she was broken three times, thus requiring the decider.

Karolina gathered her game together from the pieces she had scattered all over the place, and won the key points in a closely contested third set to reach only her second final this year - she won in Stuttgart in April. 

WTA Seoul semi finals

• Ajla Tomljanovic defeated Su-Wei Hsieh (6) 6-4 5-7 6-4

This is the third WTA final for Ajla, the second since gaining Australian citizenship, and both this year. (Morocco the first in May, losing to Mertens)

• Kiki Bertens (2) defeated Maria Sakkari (3) 6-4 6-2 and will play Ajla Tomljanovic in the final, her fourth for 2018, having won twice, in Charleston (April) and Cincinnati (August)