(CNN) -- Caroline Wozniacki recovered from the loss of the opening set to beat French Open champion Francesca Schiavone at the WTA Championships in Doha and seal the year-end No.1 spot.
The Danish top seed prevailed 3-6 6-1 6-1 Thursday to claim her second victory in the Maroon Group round-robin and all but clinch her place in the semifinals of the $4.5 million end of season tournament.
But more importantly, it guarantees she will top the global rankings in 2010, having fluffed a chance to seal the status 24 hours earlier as she slumped to a straight sets defeat to Samantha Stosur of Australia, who has booked her place in the last four.
Wozniacki, who has yet to win a grand slam, has produced a late season run of five tournament wins from seven, to become world number one at the expense of Serena Williams of the United States.
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