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Sunday, July 24, 2022

Wk.29- Nobody Puts Pera in the Corner (even if the schedule does)

All hail Bernarda Pera, the Queen of the, ummm, Blink-and-You-Missed-It (but really unnecessary and borderline pointless) Clay Court Season Between Wimbledon and the Summer Hard Court Stretch That is Supposed to Be a Lead-in to the U.S. Open.

Yeah, that sounds *fairly* accurate. Right?





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*WEEK 29 CHAMPIONS*
HAMBURG, GERMANY (WTA 250/Clay Outdoor)
S: Bernarda Pera/USA def. Anett Kontaveit/EST 6-2/6-4
D: Sophie Chang/Angela Kulikov (USA/USA) def. Miyu Kato/Aldila Sutjiadi (JPN/INA) 6-3/4-6 [10-6]
PALERMO, ITALY (WTA 250/Clay Outdoor)
S: Irina-Camelia Begu/ROU def. Lucia Bronzetti/ITA 6-2/6-2
D: Anna Bondar/Kimberley Zimmermann (HUN/GER) def. Amina Anshba/Panna Udvardy (RUS/HUN) 6-3/6-2




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Bernarda Pera/USA
...proving once again just how important momentum and confidence often are on the WTA tour, 27-year old Pera followed up her maiden tour-level title run in Budapest with another in Hamburg, pushing her winning streak to 12 matches and 24 sets.

Pera began by knocking off no less than the defending champ in Gabriela Ruse, then followed up with wins over Swiss youngster Joanne Züger, Katerina Siniakova, Maryna Zanevska and top-seeded Anett Kontaveit in the final. Pera surrendered just 22 games through her five matches.



After standing at #130 two weeks ago, Pera will climb from #81 this week to #54 on Monday.

Of some note, it was around this time a year ago that another 27-year old Bannerette reached her first WTA final and claimed her first maiden tour title, then came back in her very next event and won a second straight crown. In that case, it was Danielle Collins who won on the clay in Palermo, then won the next tour event on the schedule (held after Olympic week) on hard court in San Jose. About six months later, Collins was playing in the Australian Open final.
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RISERS: Lucia Bronzetti/ITA and Sara Sorribes Tormo/ESP
...23-year old Bronzetti has been gradually climbing the tour ladder for a while now, and her upward progression climbed another logical step in Palermo with her maiden tour final appearance.

After reaching her first three tour-level QF (including at Palermo) in '21, the Italian cracked the semifinal stage for the first time in Rabat earlier this season. She also recorded her maiden slam MD win in Melbourne, and 1000 level victories en route to the Miami 4th Round. This week, after having gone 2-6 since Rabat, wild card Bronzetti knocked off Wang Xiyu, Elina Avanesyan, Caroline Garcia and countrywoman Jasmine Paolini (after dropping the 1st at love) to reach her first final, becoming just the second player in '22 to play a WTA singles final on home soil (w/ Barty, in Adelaide and the AO). She fell in straights to Irina-Camelia Begu.

With a rankings chart with a distinctly upward curve for her entire career, Bronzetti will continue to trend up in '22. Her season-ending ranking has risen every season since her first ranking campaign of 2015, and after finishing '21 at #145 she's set to make her most important one-year leap at the end of this year. She'll rise from #78 to #65 on Monday, at the very least surely adding her name to the growing list of potential BJK Cup squad members who might try to add a few unexpected additional chapters to the nation's successful legacy in the competition (her only match to date was a dead rubber WD match vs. France earlier this year).



Also in Palermo, Sorribes finally broke her '22 season QF losing streak, snapping the string after failing on her previous five attempts to reach a singles SF this season by reaching the stage for the first time since last August in Cleveland.

The Spaniard opened her week with a three-set victory over Ana Bogdan in the blazing heat, a win that was helped along by the Romanian being docked six penalty points (meaning she immediately trailed 0-1, love/30 to start the 3rd) after her late return to the court following a between-sets exit. Sorribes dropped just two games against Léolia Jeanjean, then only five vs. Anna Bondar, before losing a 3:12 three-setter to Irina-Camelia Begu that didn't finish up until after 1:30 a.m. local time.


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SURPRISES: Sophie Chang/Angela Kulikov (USA/USA) and Maryna Zanevska/BEL
...recent USC graduate Kulikova enjoyed a *full* WTA experience in Hamburg.

She made her tour-level debut in the doubles, teaming with Chang, with whom she's already won five ITF crowns since October. In the QF, she put her body on the line...



It paid off with her (and Chang's) maiden tour final appearance after a pair of MTB wins in the 1st Round (over Barnett/Nichols) and SF (Potapova/Sizikova), and the pair were further rewarded with their maiden title after another MTB win in the championship match over Miyu Kato & Aldila Sutjiadi.



Chang and Kulikov are the sixth and seventh Bannerettes to win their first tour-level doubles titles in 2022.





Zanevska won her maiden tour title in Gdynia exactly one year ago, but the 28-year old Waffle entered this week on a five-match losing streak that ran from her Strasbourg QF through Roland Garros and Wimbledon. She was just 10-11 on the year.

But Hamburg provided her a chance to regroup, and she did just that with her first SF result of the season. Wins over Viktoriya Tomova, Alexandra Cadantu-Ignatik and Aliaksanda Sasnovich (her second career Top 50 win) set up a SF match with eventual champ Bernarda Pera, who dispatched the Belgian is straights just as she has all twelve of her opponents the last two weeks.

It's important that Zanevska take something good from this week, too, considering the loss of her title points from Gdynia, even with her semifinal run, will drop her 27 spots in the rankings from #72 to #99 on Monday.
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VETERAN: Irina-Camelia Begu/ROU
...it took five years, but Begu is back in the WTA winner's circle for a fifth time.

The 31-year old Romanian, a decade after reaching the semis in the event, won the Palermo crown with wins over Spaniards (Marina Bassols Ribera and Sara Sorribes Tormo, the latter a SF affair that lasted over three hours and ended around 1:30 a.m. local time) and Pastries (Oceane Dodin and Diane Parry) before taking out home favorite and first-time tour finalist Lucia Bronzetti in a 2 & 2 final. Begu fired an ace on MP, emphatically claiming her first crown since winning in Bucharest in '17.

With her fifth title wrapped up in her ninth career final, and with a quiet effectiveness in this year's majors (6-3 overall, and with her RG 4th Round her best in a major in six years), Begu will climb from #45 to #33 this week, within shouting distance of the career high of #22 she set in 2016.


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COMEBACK: Anett Kontaveit/EST
...sure, Kontaveit is currently ranked #2. But she needed the week she had in Hamburg.

Since reaching a pair of finals in the early months of '22, the Estonian had contracted Covid, continued to feel (and play) below par even after she was officially clear of the virus, twice more failed to post a second week slam result (RG 1r/WI 2r -- making it nine straight first week losses in majors), split with the coach (Dmitry Tursunov) who'd overseen her summer/fall super-surge last season (replacing him w/ Torben Beltz) and came into Hamburg on a 1-4 slide. Kontaveit had gone 4-6 since her Doha runner-up result in her second (w/ Saint Petersburg) of back-to-back finals, a 2 & love loss to Iga Swiatek.

Saying she now feels back to 100%, the Estonian posted four wins -- over Irina Bara, Rebecca Peterson, Andrea Petkovic (ret.) and Anastasia Potapova -- to reach her first clay court final in nearly two years (and just her second since '17). Playing in her tour-best tenth final since the start of last year (she actually qualified for an 11th, but it wasn't played), Kontaveit fell in straight sets to *the* pre-summer hard court clay season "form" player Bernarda Pera.

Kontaveit has won her last four indoor finals, but has gone 0-3 outdoors over the same period.


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FRESH FACES: Anastasia Potapova/RUS and Joanne Züger/SUI
...having already won her maiden tour title in Istanbul in April, Potapova produced her first career back-to-back SF combo as she followed up her run in Lausanne with another in Hamburg, posting wins over Varvara Gracheva, Maria Carle and Barbora Krejcikova. The Hordette fell to top-seeded Anett Kontaveit, but will climb into the Top 60 for the first time in the new rankings.



Also in Hamburg, 21-year old Swiss Züger (#165) qualified for her maiden WTA MD with wins over Jesika Malecková and Anastasia Gasanova, then posted her first tour-level MD victory with a 1st Round upset of Jule Niemeier.


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DOWN: ??
...none, really.

But how about a hand (or something) for Timea Bacsinszky for quite possibly the worst/best coin toss performance ever.


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ITF PLAYERS: Sara Bejlek/CZE and Séléna Janicijevic/FRA
...Bejlek is now leading the Czech Crush's ITF charge, as the 16-year old improved to 4-0 in career pro finals with a 6-2/7-6 win over Macedonia's Lina Gjorcheska in the $60K challenger in Olomouc, Czech Republic. The win means that Bejlek is one of the few 16-year olds to manage to *defend* a pro title, as she was the event champ in '21, as well.



Ranked just inside the Top 200, Bejlek is the youngest player ranked in the Top 300. Another 16-year old, Victoria Jimenez Kastinseva is ranked higher, but the next youngest player in the women's rankings is 15-year old Brenda Fruhvirtova at around #322.

In Perugia, Italy, 20-year old of Pastry Janicijevic won her circuit-leading fifth '22 challenger crown, improving to 7-1 in career finals (5-1 in '22) with a 6-2/6-2 win in the final over Anna Turati.

Janicijevic's win improves her current run to 16-2, with three titles. In the sixteen victories, she's won 32 of 33 sets.

She's now about ten months away from making her Roland Garros MD debut.


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JUNIOR STARS: Victoria Mboko/CAN & Kayla Cross/CAN and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva/AND
...Mboko and Cross have already been linked via junior success in '22, reaching both the AO and WI girls double finals and winning a trio of J1 titles on three different surfaces (Traralgon HC, Porto Alegre RC, Roehampton GR). This week in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan the teenagers again reached the winner's circle on the same weekend on home soil, just not with each other.

Wimbledon girls' semifinalist Mboko, 15, won her maiden pro singles title, knocking off three seeds -- #1 Valentini Grammatikopoulou, #5 Stacey Fung and #6 Elysia Bolton -- as well as Cross (in the 2nd Rd.) before defeating (the latest entry in the Bannerette Madisons game) 19-year old Madison Sieg in the final. This was just Mboko's sixth pro event, and her second final (w/ $25K Monastir in April).

Meanwhile, 17-year old Cross, who held MP early in the Wimbledon girls' event vs. eventual champ Liv Hovde, claimed her maiden pro doubles crown alongside another Canadian, 17-year old Marina Stakusic. It was Cross' seventh pro event appearance, but just her third time in an ITF WD draw.

Mboko didn't play doubles this week, but one suspects -- ala "McCoco" -- the pair's junior doubles combo (MCrosso? Cboko?) will next become a regular thing in pro events, as well.



In Klosters, Switzerland, top-seeded Jimenez Kasintseva claimed the European 18-and-Under championship crown with a 2 & 3 win in the final over Swiss Celine Naef. VJK, 16, had already outlasted Nikola Daubnerova (SVK) and Brenda Fruhvirtova (CZE) in three-setters to reach the final in just her second junior event (w/ RG) of '22. The Andorran came up just short of making her slam MD debut at Wimbledon, losing to Astra Sharma in three sets in the final Q-round last month. Kasintseva is 13-9 in pro action this year.



Naef also lost in the doubles final (w/ fellow Swiss Karolina Kozakova), but once again found strong footing on the clay, where she'd gone 17-2 in the spring with a pair of J1 and JA singles title runs
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DOUBLES: Anna Bondar/Kimberley Zimmermann, HUN/GER
...in Palermo, Bondar & Zimmermann dropped no sets en route to their first title as doubles partners, knocking off top-seeded Muhammad/Guarachi in the semis, then first-time tour finalists Amina Anshba & Panna Udvardy in a 6-3/6-2 final.

The final was also Bondar's first in doubles on tour, as she becomes the third first-time WD title winner this week alone (w/ the Hamburg pair of S.Chang/Kulikov), while Zimmermann's second WTA win comes in her second straight final (she was RU w/ Katarzyna Kawa last week in Budapest) and allows her to defend the Palermo crown she won a year ago alongside Erin Routliffe.

Bondar also reached the singles QF.
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WHEELCHAIR: Zhu Zhenzhen/CHN
...with the top two players still on the sidelines, WC #5 Zhu picked up her biggest singles title since 2019 at the Swiss Open in Geneva, claiming her second career Series 1 crown and her third title of 2022. The 32-year old defeated Dana Mathewson in the semis, then Macarena Cabrillana in a 6-0/6-3 final. Top-seeded Aniek Van Koot had lost in the QF to Manami Tanaka.

Zhu swept both the singles and doubles crowns, extending her doubles winning streak to ten matches (and five titles) by teaming with Tanaka to defeat Mathewson & Lucy Shuker in the final. Zhu's winning streak has seen her team with four different partners during the run.
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1. Palermo QF - Jasmine Paolini def. Nuria Parrizas Diaz
...6-7(5)/7-5/6-2. Parrizas Diaz led 7-6/5-2, holding two MP, before Paolini swept the final five games of the 2nd and went on to win the three-hour affair to reach her third career SF, her best tour-level result since she last played a WTA event in her home nation (Courmayeur/October).


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2. Hamburg 1st Rd. - Katerina Siniakova def. Dasha Kasatkina
...6-2/2-6/6-4. Kasatkina had a noteworthy week *off* the court, but it started inauspiciously with an opening round loss in an early MD match played last Sunday. The Russian had led 4-2, 40/15 in the 3rd, but a series of UE opened the door for the Czech, who notched her first Top 20 win since March (Raducanu/Miami) and just her second since August of last year (Muguruza/Montreal).
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3. Hamburg 1st Rd. - Andrea Petkovic def. Tamara Korpatsch
...6-3/6-3. And Korpatsch was thus free for doubles (but she lost in the 1r), while the Petko Dance returned...



And was given an encore after a 4 & 3 win over Misaki Doi.



Unfortunately, Petko had nothing to dance about after that, as an injury saw the German be unable to record a game against Anett Kontaveit in the QF as she retired after dropping the first eight games.
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4. Hamburg Final - Bernarda Pera def. Anett Kontaveit
...6-2/6-4. The obligatory Iga reference as Pera's current streak includes two straight titles, 12 consecutive wins and 24 sets won in a row.



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5. Iga Swiatek & Friends for Ukraine Exhibition (Krakow) - Aga Radwanska def. Iga Swiatek 6-4
MX Doubles - Iga Swiatek/Martyn Pawelski def. Aga Radwanska/Sergiy Stakhovsky 6-4
...the Iga-organized charity event for Ukraine (w/ Elina Svitolina) went over without a hitch in Krakow, as Swiatek shared the court with Aga Radwanska.







Swiatek returns to action for real this week in Warsaw.
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6. Palermo Final - Irina Camelia Begu def. Lucia Bronzetti
...6-2/6-2. Coming into the week, Romanians had been almost shockingly unproductive in '22 after reaching tour singles semis. The nation stood third behind the U.S. and Russia for the most semifinalists this season with 10, but had only seen *one* post a win and reach a final (Halep in Week 1) while 10 Bannerettes and 6 Hordettes had done so.

Begu took it upon herself to improve those numbers a little.


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7. Hamburg 1st Rd. - Joanne Züger def. Jule Niemeier
...6-4/0-6/6-4/6-2. Niemeier loses consecutive matches for the first time since April, as the Swiss newcomer makes her tour MD debut match a successful one.
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8. Palermo 1st Rd. - Sara Sorribes Tormo def. Ana Bogdan
...2-6/6-4/6-2. Sorribes recovers from a set deficit to win in three en route to her first '22 semifinal. Playing in the thick of the current European heat wave, the Spaniard received a visit from a physio when down 6-2/3-2. She went on to level the match, then received a potentially important boost to start the deciding final set when Bogdan returned to the court 90 seconds late from the between-sets break and was docked six penalty points by the chair umpire. Up 1-0, 30/love without having played a point, Sorribes closed out the win.
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9. Palermo Q2 - Elina Avanesyan def. Carolina Alves 6-3/7-5
Palermo 1st Rd.- Elina Avanesyan def. Carolina Alves 6-2/5-7/6-1
...it happened again, but Avanesyan didn't fall prey to the qualifier/lucky loser do-over trap as the Russian posted back-to-back wins (though the second one took a little longer) over the Brazilian.
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10. $60K Evansville (USA) Final - Ashlyn Krueger def. Sachia Vickery
...6-3/7-5. 18-year old Krueger grabs her maiden pro title as the USTA's Wild Card Challenge for a berth in the U.S. Open MD begins.



In the last Challenge summer (2019), Kristie Ahn won the multi-event contest and played all the way into the Round of 16 at Flushing Meadows, the best result from any of the sixteen men and women who've earned the spot with their results since the start of the multi-event challenge process back in 2012.
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11. $60K Nur-Sultan KAZ Final - Moyuka Uchijima def. Natalija Stevanovic
...6-3/7-6(2). The 20-year old from Japan wins her third '22 challenger singles crown (two of them $60K events), improving to 7-2 in career finals with her win over the Serb.


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12. Prague Q2 - Barbora Palicova def. Yanina Wickmayer 6-4/4-6/6-2
Prague Q2 - Dominika Salkova def. Natalia Vikhlyantseva 6-7(3)/7-5/6-2
...you could seemingly fill the entire Q draw in Prague with the exceeding deep talent of the Crush of Czechs populating the junior circuit over the past year. Three got the chance to play their way into the MD this weekend. Nikola Bartunkova ('22 RG Jr. SF & WI Jr. QF) lost in her Q-round opener to Oksana Selekhmeteva, but Palicova posted wins over Viktoria Kuzmova and Wickmayer to reach her maiden tour MD, while Salkova upset the likes of Astra Sharma and Vikhlyantseva to do the same.



The main draw of singles includes additional Czech Crush wild cards Linda Havlickova ('22 RG Jr. champ) and Linda Noskova ('21 RG Jr. champ). Palicova & Salkova are teamed as a wild card doubles MD entrant in the event, as well. They'll play fellow WC duo Havlickova/Noskova in the 1st Round.
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13. $15K Monastir TUN Final - Priska Madelyn Nugroho def. Vaidehi Chaudhari
...6-3/1-6/6-4. The 19-year old Indonesian claims her maiden pro singles title with the win over the Indian, as well as picking up her sixth WD crown (w/ Wei Sijia of China).

Nugroho won the '20 AO girls' doubles with Alex Eala.
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14. $15K Cancun MEX Final - Lya Fernandez def. Sophia Biolay 6-3/6-2
$15K Les Contamines-Montjoie FRA Final - Jenny Lim def. Nina Radovanovic 6-1/7-6(8)
...it was a productive week for juniors on the ITF pro circuit, as in addition to singles titles won by Bejlek, Mboko and Krueger, both Mexico's Lya Fernandez (on her 15th birthday, playing in her second straight final in Cancun) and France's Jenny Lim (17) lifted maiden pro crowns.


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15. European 16&U Jr. Final (Prerov, CZE) - Mia Ristic/SRB def. Marta Soriana Santiago/ESP 6-1/6-1
European 14&U Jr. Final (Most, CZE) - Alena Kovackova/CZE def. Mia Pohankova/SVK 5-7/6-2/6-4
...Ristic becomes the first Serb to win the 16U title since Olga Danilovic in 2016, while Kovackova is the second consecutive Czech and third in four event years (Noskova '18, Valentova '21) to win the 14U crown.

Kovackova also won the doubles with yet another member of the Crush, Eliska Forejtkova.


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HM- $15K Caloundra AUS Final - Destanee Aiava vs. Talia Gibson
...the all-Aussie final is being played Down Under on Sunday night (Monday afternoon in AUS), with 22-year old Aiava playing in her first singles final since the start of the pandemic, looking for her first title since 2019.

UPDATE: 18-year old Gibson won 7-6(4)/6-4, picking up her second career title
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It's not even August... and Big Sascha and Fissette are free agents. Despite the hot weather, it sure *feels* like October.

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Yeah... so the f*** what?




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Yes, his body, his choice... and his choice is to not play. There are a few hundred others whose choice will be *to* play.




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Once in a while, he says something I nod in agreement with (the "broken clock is right two times a day" theory in action).

This is by far my least favorite stretch of the schedule, since as it is currently constituted this three-week period feels, at best, unnecessary and, at worst, pointless when it comes to intelligently planning a season schedule. We just had a unique part of the year with the grass season, and summer hard courts is the next important stretch. But the tours are playing clay court events in Europe. What, they don't have hard courts in Europe?














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*2022 CONSECUTIVE WTA WS FINALS*
6 - FEB/JUN - Iga Swiatek, POL (Doha to RG; 6-0)
2 - JAN - Ash Barty, AUS (Adelaide/AO; 2-0)
2 - FEB - Anett Kontaveit, EST (St.P/Doha; 1-1)
2 - APR/MAY - Ons Jabeur, TUN (Madrid/Rome; 1-1)
2 - JUN - Beatriz Haddad Maia, BRA (Nott/Birm; 2-0)
2 - JUN/JUL - Ons Jabeur, TUN (Ber/Wim; 1-1)
2 - JUL - BERNARDA PERA, USA (Bud/Ham; 2-0)

*2022 CONSECUTIVE WTA MATCH WINS*
37 - Iga Swiatek (w/ 2 BJK) - ended by Cornet
12 - Beatriz Haddad Maia - ended by Kvitova
12 - BERNARDA PERA - active
11 - Ash Barty - retired
11 - Ons Jabeur - ended by Swiatek
11 - Ons Jabeur - ended by Rybakina
10 - Martina Trevisan - ended by Gauff

*2022 OLDEST WTA WS CHAMPIONS*
34 - Tatjana Maria, GER (Bogota)
34 - Angelique Kerber, GER (Strasbourg)
33 - Zhang Shuai, CHN (Lyon)
32 - Petra Kvitova, CZE (Eastbourne)
31 - Petra Martic, CRO (Lausanne)
31 - IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU, ROU (Palermo)
30 - Simona Halep, ROU (Melbourne 1)

*MOST WTA FINALS in 2022*
6 - Iga Swiatek, POL (6-0)
5 - Ons Jabeur, TUN (2-3)
3 - ANETT KONTAVEIT, EST (1-2)
3 - Veronika Kudermetova, RUS (0-3)
[2020-22]
11 - ANETT KONTAVEIT (5-5-1)
9 - Iga Swiatek (9-0)
9 - Ash Barty (8-1)
8 - Ons Jabeur (3-5)
8 - Aryna Sabalenka (5-3)
7 - Elena Rybakina (2-5)
6 - Garbine Muguruza (3-3)

*2022 FIRST-TIME WTA WS FINALISTS*
Laura Pigossi, BRA (#212/27 = Bogota
Martina Trevisan, ITA (#85/28) = Rabat (W)
Claire Liu, USA (#92/21) = Rabat
Kaja Juvan, SLO (#81/21) = Strasbourg
Bernarda Pera, USA (#130/27) = Budapest (W)
LUCIA BRONZETTI, ITA (#78/23) = Palermo

*2022 FIRST-TIME WTA WD CHAMPIONS*
Bernarda Pera, USA (Melbourne 2)
Jessie Pegula, USA (Melbourne 1)
Kaitlyn Christian, USA (Guadalajara)
Catherine Harrison, USA (Monterrey)
Sabrina Santamaria, USA (Monterrey)
Aldila Sutjiadi, INA (Bogota)
ANNA BONDAR, HUN (Palermo)
SOPHIE CHANG, USA (Hamburg)
ANGELA KULIKOV, USA (Hamburg)
[first-time WD finalist]
Jessie Pegula, USA (Melbourne 1 - W)
Bernarda Pera, USA (Melbourne 2 - W)
Vivian Heisen, GER (Sydney - L)
Panna Udvardy, HUN (Sydney - L)
Alicia Barnett, GBR (Lyon - L)
Olivia Nicholls, GBR (Lyon - L)
Catherine Harrison, USA (Monterrey - W)
Emina Bektas, USA (Bogota - L)
Tara Moore, GBR (Bogota - L)
Aldila Sutjiadi, INA (Bogota -W)
AMINA ANSHBA, RUS (Palermo - L)
ANNA BONDAR, HUN (Palermo - W)
SOPHIE CHANG, USA (Hamburg - W)
ANGELA KULIKOV, USA (Hamburg - W)

*2022 WTA WS FINAL IN HOME NATION*
Adelaide 1 - Ash Barty, AUS (W)
Australian Open - Ash Barty, AUS (W)
Palermo - LUCIA BRONZETTI, ITA

*CAREER WTA TITLES - ROU*
23 - Simona Halep (2013-22)
12 - Virginia Ruzici (1975-85)
5 - IRINA-CAMELIA BEGU (2012-22)
4 - Irina Spirlea (1994-98)
4 - Ruxandra Dragomir (1996-97)

*RECENT EUROPEAN JUNIOR CHSP. WINNERS*
[18-and-under]
2013 Barbora Krejcikova, CZE
2014 Sara Sorribes Tormo, ESP
2015 Anna Bondar, HUN
2016 Amina Anshba, RUS
2017 Kaja Juvan, SLO
2018 Clara Tauson, DEN
2019 Anna Kubareva, BLR
2020 DNP
2021 Antonia Ruzic, CRO
2022 Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva, AND
[16-and-under]
2012 Sara Sorribes Tormo, ESP
2013 Dasha Kasatkina, RUS
2014 Fanny Stollar, HUN
2015 Anna Slovakova, CZE
2016 Olga Danilovic, SRB
2017 Maja Chwalinksa, POL
2018 Kamilla Bartone, LAT
2019 Polina Kudermetova, RUS
2020 DNP
2021 DNP
2022 Mia Ristic, SRB
[14-and-under]
2014 Anastasia Potapova, RUS
2015 Iga Swiatek, POL
2016 Helene Pellicano, MLT
2017 Daria Lopatetskaya, UKR
2018 Linda Noskova, CZE
2019 Michaela Laki, GRE
2020 DNP
2021 Tereza Valentova, CZE
2022 Alena Kovackova, CZE

*USTA WILD CARD CHALLENGE WINNERS*
2010 Beatrice Capra
2011 Madison Keys
2012 Mallory Burdette
2013 Shelby Rogers
2014 Nicole Gibbs
2015 Samantha Crawford
2016 Sofia Kenin
2017 Sofia Kenin
2018 Asia Muhammad
2019 Kristie Ahn
2020-21 - not held
2022 ?
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NOTE: multiple event combination since 2012





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A little Sharapova-esque? Maybe circa 2037?




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If you know, you know.




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