Elina Svitolina will face world number one Ashleigh Barty in the WTA Finals showpiece in Shenzhen.

 

Ukrainian Svitolina, 25, had fought back to lead 5-7 6-3 4-1 when a tearful Belinda Bencic, 22, retired from their semi-final with cramp.

 

Karolina Pliskova, 27, forced the only break of the first set in the other semi-final, but Australian Barty, 23, controlled the second set.

 

Barty then claimed the decider, winning 4-6 6-2 6-3 to reach Sunday's final.

it's been such an underwhelming tournament with so many retirements + bad games

watching Barty play, she's not that good, she can run but she doesn't have any signature shot

the game yesterday with Pliskova felt like watching the world #101 vs the #102 instead of #1 vs #2

it's always the games of makes less errors

This happens to Rafa every time he plays at the O2 Arena with injuries and fitnrss.

Dominic Thiem stunned Novak Djokovic to become the first player into the semi-finals at the ATP Finals in London.

 

The Austrian won a thriller 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 7-6 (7-5) to advance, ensuring Djokovic and Roger Federer will fight for the other place when they meet in their final group match on Thursday.

Alexander Zverev has denied using his phone during his match against Stefanos Tsitsipas at the ATP Finals.

 

Zverev was asked about the incident at a news conference after he was seen touching something in his bag at a changeover during Wednesday's defeat.

 

The 22-year-old German, who lost 6-3 6-2 at London's O2 Arena, said: "I don't know what they saw, but it was definitely not a phone."

wow crazy win by Nadal, I was so sure he was gonna lose that I even stopped watched at 5-1... but somehow he ended up winning :o

 

oh and Zverev was totally looking at his phone, and it's not even the first time, he did the say at the China Open

Stefanos Tsitsipas came from a set down to beat Dominic Thiem on a thrilling final-set tie-break and become the youngest winner of the ATP Finals in 18 years.

Dan Evans loses to Robin Haase in the singles rubber in the Davis Cup meaning that is 1-1 between Great Britain and Netherlands in the opening round-robin match taking place in Madrid.

 

 

Great Britain secured their place in the knockout stage of the Davis Cup finals as Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski won their pivotal doubles match to clinch victory over Kazakhstan.

I've been watching some of this. A lot of the GB matches were quite close but they managed to come through them. They play Germany in the quarter-final tomorrow.

It's live on Eurosport isn't it? BBC will be annoyed that they aren't showing it.

Yes,Eurosport have been showing all the matches.

Kyle Edmund wins his match against Feliciano Lopez. A strange decision by Spain to play Lopez in that match when they had higher ranked players in their team. Maybe the others are a bit tired. Rafael Nadal will surely beat Dan Evans meaning the semi-final will be decided by the doubles match.

The 2nd Spanish, his father died the day before yesterday so he's not there anymore

The 3rd got injured playing yesterday against Argentina

Spain has not much left, relying 100% on Nadal, this Feliciano Lopez is pretty shitty

Oh I see,thanks. GB must have a great chance with their regular doubles pairing of Murray and Skupski. Spain didn't finish until ten past one Madrid time last night.

'This Lopez' and Nadal have helped Spain reach the Davis Cup final by beating GB in two tie-breaks.

 

 

The GB doubles pair unlucky not to take any of those set points. Nadal was a machine.

Nadal is just too confident right now, in the doubles game the Spanish team was clearly worse but won just by guts and determination

 

not sure who's gonna win the final, maybe Canada, cos against the 2nd Spanish will sure lose, so it all depends again on Nadal

Rafael Nadal clinched an emotional Davis Cup victory for Spain over Canada when he beat Denis Shapovalov in front of a jubilant home crowd in Madrid.

 

His 6-3 7-6 (9-7) win sealed the title, with Roberto Bautista Agut returning to the team three days after his father's death to put the hosts 1-0 up.

 

Bautista Agut was in tears after beating 19-year-old Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (7-3) 6-3 in the opener.

 

Nadal's win gave Spain an unassailable 2-0 lead and a sixth Davis Cup title.

wow amazing

the Spanish press is a bit overdramatic today

just read a newspaper headline calling the Spanish team "5 heroes and 1 God" in reference to Nadal :D