By Chris Oddo | Sunday August 13, 2017
Elina Svitolina capped a remarkable run in Toronto by notching her fourth consecutive Top 10 win over Caroline Wozniacki.
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Five finals. Five titles.
It’s tough to top what Elina Svitolina has accomplished thus far in 2017, but the year is still young. On Sunday in Toronto the Ukrainian capped off her most impressive tournament of the season by racing past Caroline Wozniacki, 6-4, 6-0, to claim her first Rogers Cup title.
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Svitolina reeled off four straight Top 10 wins from Thursday, starting with a round of 16 win over Venus Williams. She then plowed past Garbine Muguruza and Simona Halep whilst working double duty on Saturday in Toronto before knocking off Wozniacki for the second time in a final before a packed house on a sunny day in Toronto.
Svitolina cracks a nifty milestone with the win by becoming the first player in WTA history to win three Premier 5 titles in a singles season. According to the WTA, since Premier 5 tournaments were introduced in 2009, no player has won three in a season. The only other players to win two in a year were: Wozniacki (2010), Maria Sharapova (2011), Serena Williams (2013, 2014) and Victoria Azarenka (2013).
Svitolina will also climb to a career-high ranking of No.4 in the world on Monday—the first player from her country to ever climb so high.
Svitolina finished the final with 17 winners against 15 unforced errors and broke Wozniacki’s serve six times on seven opportunities. Wozniacki hung tough early, breaking for a second time in the first set to level at four-all, but the Dane ran out of gas after that, dropping the final eight games to fall to 0-6 in WTA finals this season.
Wozniacki only won six points on serve in the second set.