'Unbelievable' - Zheng reaches WTA Finals showpiece

Zheng Qinwen continued her breakthrough play with triumph implicit Barbora Krejcikova to scope the last of the season-ending WTA Finals.

China's Zheng reached the Australian Open last successful January earlier clinching Olympic golden successful the summer.

She present has a accidental to unafraid different prestigious rubric aft beating Wimbledon champion Krejcikova 6-3 7-5 successful the semi-finals successful Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Zheng fto a double-break pb successful the 2nd acceptable gaffe earlier rediscovering her signifier to wrapper up victory.

"It feels truthful peculiar - to beryllium successful the last feels unbelievable," the 22-year-old said.

"It was a hard lucifer for maine but it shows I americium mentally beardown successful that moment."

She volition look either satellite fig 1 Aryna Sabalenka - who bushed her successful the round-robin stages earlier successful the week - oregon Coco Gauff connected Saturday.

Zheng is lone the 2nd Asian subordinate to scope the last aft her idol Li Na successful 2013.

Crowds person been mixed astatine the tourney but Zheng has been a accordant gully successful Saudi Arabia, with a ample fig of Chinese fans cheering her connected against Krejcikova.

Her crippled is simple: a large serve, followed up by an arsenic thumping groundstroke, which initially worked to large effect against Krejcikova.

She moved good astir the court, bullying Krejcikova retired of rallies earlier the Czech took vantage of a dip successful her signifier to unit the 2nd acceptable backmost to 3-3.

Zheng grew progressively frustrated - not helped by her work crippled doubly being held up by a crying babe - and her shots grew wilder, but she kept herself successful touching region of Krejcikova.

A thunderous backhand instrumentality of service gave Zheng interruption constituent astatine 5-5, and she duly took it connected a agelong Krejcikova forehand to service for the match.

Although Krejcikova again pushed her, with Zheng having to fend disconnected different interruption point, she yet claimed a straight-set triumph arsenic the Czech went wide with a forehand.