2019 - WTA FINALS - CHINA

WTA Finals 2019: Story of the semifinals

All the best photos from semifinal day at the 2019 Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen.

01 /08
Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai got off to a red-hot start in the first doubles semifinal, taking a 6-1, 2-0 lead over Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic (Getty)
02 /08
However, defending champions Babos and Mladenovic fought back to edge a tight match tiebreak (Getty)
03 /08
Playing disciplined tennis, Belinda Bencic took a one-set lead over Elina Svitolina in the first singles semifinal (Getty)
04 /08
Defending champion Svitolina also bounced back to take the second set over an ailing Bencic (Getty)
05 /08
Trailing 1-4 in the deciding set, Bencic was forced to retire due to cramping, sending Svitolina into the WTA Finals title round for the second year in a row (Getty)
06 /08
In her third consecutive WTA Finals semifinal, Karolina Pliskova took a set lead over Ashleigh Barty in her quest for a first final (Getty)
07 /08
Barty roared back with two sets of dazzling tennis to block Pliskova and to reach her own maiden final at the WTA Finals (Getty)
08 /08
In the second doubles semifinal, Hsieh Su-Wei and Barbora Strycova routed Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Demi Schuurs for the loss of just three games (Getty)

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