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Williams beats Zvonareva for first WTA Championship title
Nov 9, 2008, 15:56 GMT
Doha - Venus Williams rallied to beat Vera Zvonareva 6-7 (5-7), 6-0, 6-2 on Sunday to win the season-ending WTA Championships for the first time.
The seventh-seeded Wimbledon champion Williams threw away a 5-1 advantage in the first-set tiebreak, after saving three set points earlier, but then dropped only two further games en route to victory in 2 hours 10 minutes.
Williams, 28, improved her record against Zvonareva to 6-1 and claimed a winners cheque of 1.34 million dollars (1.05 million euros) for her third title of the year and 39th overall. She will rise from eighth to sixth place in the final 2008 rankings Monday.
Eight seed Zvonareva received 715,000 dollars and will move from ninth to seventh in the rankings.
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