<p>Iga Swiatek beat an out-of-sorts Coco Gauff 6-0 6-4 in windy conditions at the WTA Finals in Cancun on Wednesday while Ons Jabeur avenged her Wimbledon final loss by besting Marketa Vondrousova 6-4 6-3, blowing the race to the semis wide open.</p><p>Swiatek came out firing in their group stage match and broke the US Open champion for a second time with a lovely looping crosscourt winner to take a 4-0 lead.</p><p>Two games later, the second-seeded Pole pounced on a poor drop shot from the American teenager and blasted a backhand past her to capture the one-sided first set.</p><p>Gauff raised her level early in the second, winning three straight games for a 3-1 advantage and coming out on top of a marathon service game 4-2.</p><p>But the four-time major champion would not back down, holding at love and then breaking back on Gauff's badly missed forehand into the net for 4-4.</p>.Tunisia's Jabeur donates part of WTA Finals prize money to help Palestinians.<p>From there Gauff began to unravel.</p><p>She threw her racket against the court in frustration after four straight double faults while serving for the set at 5-4 and appeared on the verge of tears in the next game, where she whiffed on a return of serve en route to a love hold.</p><p>Swiatek improved her lifetime tally to 9-1 against Gauff when the third seed's overhead landed in the net on match for her 31st unforced error of the contest.</p><p>The evening group stage match saw a rematch of the Wimbledon final as sixth seed Ons Jabeur got back at the grand slam winner Vondrousova with a straight set win.</p><p>The first set had a competitive start with both players locked 2-2, until Jabeur swung the momentum in her favor by breaking Vondrousova's serve.</p><p>The former world number two took just short of an hour to win the first set and about half that to clinch the second, ending her three-match losing streak against Vondrousova with a commanding victory.</p><p>It was Jabeur's first win in the group after Monday's loss to Gauff, leaving both of them with one win each as Swiatek holds the top spot with two victories.</p><p>Vondrousova is at the bottom after two losses in the group.</p><p>All four players in the group can reach the semi-finals as Friday's fixtures pit Swiatek against Jabeur and Gauff against Vondrousova in the last round of the group stage.</p>
<p>Iga Swiatek beat an out-of-sorts Coco Gauff 6-0 6-4 in windy conditions at the WTA Finals in Cancun on Wednesday while Ons Jabeur avenged her Wimbledon final loss by besting Marketa Vondrousova 6-4 6-3, blowing the race to the semis wide open.</p><p>Swiatek came out firing in their group stage match and broke the US Open champion for a second time with a lovely looping crosscourt winner to take a 4-0 lead.</p><p>Two games later, the second-seeded Pole pounced on a poor drop shot from the American teenager and blasted a backhand past her to capture the one-sided first set.</p><p>Gauff raised her level early in the second, winning three straight games for a 3-1 advantage and coming out on top of a marathon service game 4-2.</p><p>But the four-time major champion would not back down, holding at love and then breaking back on Gauff's badly missed forehand into the net for 4-4.</p>.Tunisia's Jabeur donates part of WTA Finals prize money to help Palestinians.<p>From there Gauff began to unravel.</p><p>She threw her racket against the court in frustration after four straight double faults while serving for the set at 5-4 and appeared on the verge of tears in the next game, where she whiffed on a return of serve en route to a love hold.</p><p>Swiatek improved her lifetime tally to 9-1 against Gauff when the third seed's overhead landed in the net on match for her 31st unforced error of the contest.</p><p>The evening group stage match saw a rematch of the Wimbledon final as sixth seed Ons Jabeur got back at the grand slam winner Vondrousova with a straight set win.</p><p>The first set had a competitive start with both players locked 2-2, until Jabeur swung the momentum in her favor by breaking Vondrousova's serve.</p><p>The former world number two took just short of an hour to win the first set and about half that to clinch the second, ending her three-match losing streak against Vondrousova with a commanding victory.</p><p>It was Jabeur's first win in the group after Monday's loss to Gauff, leaving both of them with one win each as Swiatek holds the top spot with two victories.</p><p>Vondrousova is at the bottom after two losses in the group.</p><p>All four players in the group can reach the semi-finals as Friday's fixtures pit Swiatek against Jabeur and Gauff against Vondrousova in the last round of the group stage.</p>