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Exceptional start for Nelly Korda spells bad news for rest of Tour
After winning seven times on tour, including her second major, and winning the LPGA Tour Player of the Year in 2024, Nelly Korda was looking to start this year off right. She made a run in her first tournament and secured a second-place finish to start off 2025.
At the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, Korda shot a 7-under 65 in the final round to secure the finish. It was her fifth top-five at the kickoff tournament for the LPGA Tour. It is an impressive start to the year for the superstar golfer.
She made 24 birdies through four rounds, including nine in the final round. She shot a 67 in the third round and tallied only one bogey on Saturday. Unfortunately, in the end, she came up just a little bit shy of overtaking A Lim Kim who won the tournament by two strokes.
“This is what I love about golf, being in the hunt on a Sunday going down the back nine,” she said about the finish. “I played well. I wish I had a couple of those putts back this week. I three-putted nine twice for par, and when you think about it that way, you’re never going to be happy with the outcome. But I think first week back, get into contention and play well, there is never anything bad about it.”
The second-place finish secured Nelly Korda her sixth consecutive top-five
That includes her victory at the Annika Driven by Gainbridge in November. That tournament helped raise Korda’s profile as she was paired during the Pro-Am with basketball superstar, Caitlin Clark.
Her finish at the Hilton Grand was better than last season’s. During the tournament a year ago, she finished in a tie for 16th. Her best round came in the second when she shot a 4-under 69 on the day.
It would be the only tournament that she would not win at the start of 2024 until the Cognizant Founders Cup in early May. This season, the Founders Cup is coming up this weekend and Korda will look to use her momentum to claim the top prize this time around.
Her finish should give her the confidence to take on 2025 in the same way as she did in 2024. It should also be a warning to the rest of the tour. When Korda’s name is on the leaderboard on a Sunday, it may be starting to have echoes of how it felt for players when Tiger Woods was making his push as well. Look for Nelly Korda to be in the running again this weekend.
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Express Sport brings you the latest tennis news from the Paris Masters.
We’re reaching the business end of the Paris Masters, as eight players become four in the French capital. Jannik Sinner is the overwhelming favourite to lift the trophy after Carlos Alcaraz was dumped out by Cameron Norrie in the Spaniard’s opening match. Norrie was then beaten by Valentin Vacherot, whose amazing 10-match winning streak at Masters 1000 level came to an end when he lost to Felix Auger-Aliassime.
Canadian star Auger-Aliassime will face Alexander Bublik in the semis. Bublik defeated Alex de Minaur, who is among those to have already qualified for the year-end ATP Finals. Sinner is through to his first Paris Masters semi-final after beating Ben Shelton. He’ll face defending champion Alexander Zverev, who survived a tough match against Daniil Medvedev.
Novak Djokovic is not involved in the Paris Masters, having decided to skip the event for the second year in a row, but he has learned his fate in the draw of next week’s ATP 250 in Athens. And over in Riyadh, the WTA Finals are about to get underway.
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