ZHUHAI, China, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- No.7 seed Julia Goerges of Germany staged a spectacular comeback as she beat No. 2 seed CoCo Vandeweghe 7-5, 6-1 in the final of the Hengqin Life WTA Elite Trophy Zhuhai on Sunday.
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The 25-year-old American committed the first of all her six double faults of the match to get her serve broken by the composed Goerges.
From then on, Goerges won 11 of the remaining 12 games to wrap up her second consecutive title as well as a nine-match winning streak.
"I just tried to hang in there. Somehow you always get a chance, and if you have a chance you still need to take it. I am very happy that I could take it," said Goerges.
While the 29-year-old German raised arms to celebrate her win, Vandeweghe, who hurled her racket, yelled and struck the ball onto the stands during the match Bottes Ugg Classic Mini 5854 Camel Acheter , hugged her coach weeping. Goerges hinted that Vandeweghe's failure to control her temper contributed to the American's loss.
"I know she's very emotional in some parts, in positive and negative parts. We battled out that first set. And in the second, yeah, I felt I got a little bit more in control of her and her emotions, as well," she said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and his wife Peng Liyuan (1st R) welcome U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd L) and his wife Melania Trump at the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, in Beijing Bottes Ugg Classic Mini 5854 Gris France , capital of China, Nov. 8, 2017. They had an informal afternoon tea in the Baoyun Building, also known as the Hall of Embodied Treasures, in the southwestern corner of the Forbidden City. (XinhuaXie Huanchi)
BEIJING, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan welcomed their U.S. counterparts with an informal afternoon tea at the Palace Museum Wednesday afternoon.
U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump arrived in Beijing earlier on Wednesday.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (2nd R) and his wife Peng Liyuan (1st R) welcome U.S. President Donald Trump (2nd L) and his wife Melania Trump at the Palace Museum, or the Forbidden City, in Beijing, capital of China, Nov. 8, 2017. They had an informal afternoon tea in the Baoyun Building, also known as the Hall of Embodied Treasures à vendre Bottes Ugg Classic Basse 5825 Camel , in the southwestern corner of the Forbidden City. (XinhuaXie Huanchi)
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BEIJING,Jun 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Shanghai for the first time will stage a five-star equestrian show-jumping event — the Global Champions Tour — from today to Sunday in the Chinese Year of the Horse.
The three-day event, to be held in front of the China Art Museum in the Pudong New Area, is the fourth stop of the 14-leg tour. It will also mark the first time a Chinese mainland city hosts a premier international equestrian competition.
The Global Champions Tour has grown from six events in 2006 to 14 events this year, and Shanghai is one of the three cities joining for the first time, along with Antwerp and Paris.
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Eighty world-class horses and more than 50 top riders will gather in Shanghai for the competition, all determined to get their hands on the Grand Prix winner’s 40 Championship points and the major share of the record US$1.1 million in prize money. The horses will go over barriers set as high as 1.6 meters, organizers said. Only about 100 horses around the world can scale barriers of such height.
The competitors confirmed for the Shanghai leg include Olympic, world, regional and national champions from all over the globe.
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Heading up the star-studded list is four-time Olympic gold medalist and world No. 3 Ludger Beerbaum of Germany. Beerbaum will be the likely favorite heading into the Shanghai event, though he might face a challenge from his compatriot Christian Ahlmann, last year’s GCT runner-up Bottes Ugg Classic Haute 5815 Noir Femme Outlet , Olympic bronze medalist and five-time European medalist.
British show-jumping powerhouse Michael Whitaker, winner of 11 major championship medals and an Olympic silver medal, will be joined in Shanghai by his fellow countryman Sam Hutton.
Lying No. 9 in the GCT rankings after three stops, Italian rider Emanuele Gaudiano has been the rising star of the 2014 season. Meanwhile, female rider Edwina Tops-Alexander of Australia, now No. 1 in the GCT ranking, will take the overall lead if she continues her strong form through Shanghai.
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