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As It Happened: Halep Outsteadies Keys To Take Red Group Lead

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

SINGAPORE – 2014 finalist Simona Halep put on an emphatic display to outlast and outsteady American No.6 seed Madison Keys, 6-2, 6-4, to take the early initiative in round robin play at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.

Relive all the action, including play-by-play analysis, stats, and quotes from the first match from Singapore!

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Kuznetsova Gets Mid-Match Haircut

Kuznetsova Gets Mid-Match Haircut

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

SINGAPORE – Svetlana Kuznetsova is a woman of many talents. Top 10 tennis player, designer, polyglot, rapper and now hairdresser.

Midway through the final set of her round-robin encounter with Agnieszka Radwanska, Kuznetsova realized something was not quite right: her haircut.

Trailing 2-1, the Russian took out her frustration with scissors, lopping off her ponytail during the changeover. The change had the desired effect, too, inspiring Kuznetsova to break back in the following game and go on to win the match.

Kuznetsova is not the first player to get an impromptu trim in the heat of battle. At last year’s ATP World Tour Finals, Andy Murray famously took a pair of scissors to his unruly mane…

Andy Murray

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Singapore: Cibulkova Interview

  • Posted: Jan 01, 1970

An interview with Dominika Cibulkova after her straight-sets defeat to Madison Keys in the round-robin stage of the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.

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