Russian tennis player Mirra Andreeva won the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) Finals, defeating Ukraine's Elina Svitolina in the final, infohub.kz reports.
The season-ending tournament was hosted in Indian Wells, USA, with matches played on hard courts.
The decisive match ended 7-5, 6-3 in Andreeva's favor. The players spent 1 hour 48 minutes on court.
Throughout the WTA Finals, the Russian won all five matches without dropping a set and earned the maximum possible prize money of $3.37 million (about 1.5 billion tenge).
The 19-year-old Andreeva became the youngest WTA Finals champion in 22 years. She will finish the year as world No. 2, moving up from No. 3. She will trail leader Elena Rybakina by 293 points. The Kazakhstani won the WTA Finals last year but withdrew from the recent tournament due to health issues.
Svitolina will retain sixth place in the world rankings. Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka will drop from second to third after being eliminated in the group stage.