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Wk.41- Crouching Tiger, Visible Sabalenka




Could a return to the #1 ranking be next?





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*WEEK 41 CHAMPIONS*
WUHAN, CHINA (WTA 1000/Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Aryna Sabalenka/BLR def. Zheng Qinwen/CHN 6-3/5-7/6-3
D: Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva (KAZ/RUS) def. Asia Muhammad/Jessie Pegula (USA/USA) 6-3/7-6(6)




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Aryna Sabalenka/BLR
...China has always been good to Sabalenka. Early in her career, she found some of her initial success there. In the closing weeks of her best season, old habits proved to be too hard to break in Wuhan.

By the end of the final weekend, Sabalenka was lifting another singles titles, the 17th of her career, fifth at tour-level in China and third (in a row, though the tournament took an unscheduled break since last being held in 2019 due to pandemic concerns) in the Wuhan event, setting up a WTAF storyline in which the season-ending #1 ranking will be deeply in play in Riyadh when Iga Swiatek (likely) returns for the first time since the U.S. Open and after making a coaching change.



Wins over Katerina Siniakova, Yulia Putintseva (after dropping the 1st set 6-1, she won a love 3rd), Magdalena Frech and Coco Gauff (again after losing a not-close 1st) set up a replay of the Australian Open, only this time Zheng managed to push Sabalenka to three sets for the first time before the Belarusian finally pulled away (but not before breaking herself at love w/ a DF when first serving for the match, of course).

Now 17-0 in her Wuhan career, Sabalenka moves to within 69 points of #1 Swiatek in the rankings, meaning that the '23 WTAF champ (Iga) will have to post a better result in the event than Sabalenka next month in order to finish ahead of her in the rankings for a third straight season.

Either way, though, no matter what the final scene of the season is for Sabalenka in Saudi Arabia, this second 1000 win (a career first in a single season) in a two-major title year pretty much seals the deal that *she* will be seen, declared and should-be-officially anointed as the top WTA player of 2024.


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RISERS: Zheng Qinwen/CHN and Coco Gauff/USA
...another step taken by Zheng, but with a few more still to take.

A week after her Beijing semifinal, the hometown hero improved upon her result in Wuhan by becoming the first Chinese woman to reach the final of either of the current 1000 events held in China. Wins over Jaqueline Cristian, Leylah Fernandez (love 3rd set) and Jasmine Paolini (3 sets) matched Wang Qiang's 2018 SF as the best run by a local in the tournament's history. A match away from the final, she faced off with countrywoman Wang Xinyu, winning in straights, to reach her fourth final of the season (eighth in her WTA career) and set a new Chinese singles standard in either event.

Facing Aryna Sabalenka for the fourth time (the other three meetings came during three of the last five majors, including in this year's AO final), Zheng managed to finally take a set off the Belarusian, but was unable to prevent the now three-time Wuhan champ from pulling away.

While Zheng won't rise from her #7 ranking, her run moves her into position (and past you-know-who) to claim the last available spot in the field of what seems pretty well assured will be her maiden WTA Finals.



Wuhan didn't end as Beijing did for Gauff, who christened her new coaching setup with a title run a week ago, but the 20-year old once again showed an ability to string wins together when her game is in fine running form.

Gauff extended her Chinese winning streak to nine matches with victories over Viktoriya Tomova, Marta Kostyuk and Magda Linette without dropping a set, then raced to a 5-0 1st set lead in the SF vs. two-time defending champ Aryna Sabalenka. Gauff took the set 6-1, and led 4-2 in the 2nd before a downturn in her serve proved to be too much to overcome. After recovering from 0-3 down in the 3rd to tie things up at 4-4, Gauff was broken in the final game to fall 6-4.

Gauff flips spots with Jessie Pegula in the rankings, moving up a spot to #3 as #2 Sabalenka seeks to do the same as she puts intense heat on Iga Swiatek for the #1 ranking.
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SURPRISES: Hailey Baptiste/USA and Magdalena Frech/POL
...Baptiste has yet to reach a tour-level QF, but she's getting close.

The Washington D.C. native qualified in Wuhan (w/ wins over Wang Yafan and Suzan Lamens), then knocked off Diane Parry and Barbora Krejickova, getting her first career Top 10 win over the Czech while matching her best 1000 result (Guadalajara '23) by reaching the 3rd Round.

Baptiste lost in straights to Ekaterina Alexandrova, but will rise to a new career-high ranking inside the Top 80.



After previously sparking in Cup play, 2024 has proven to be Frech's breakout WTA campaign. The 26-year old Pole has reached her first tour-level singles final, won her maiden title (Guadalajara 500), reached the second week of a major (AO 4r) for the first time, and in Wuhan (following up her 4r in Beijing) played into her first 1000 QF.

After an opening win over Mai Hontama, Frech upset #8 Emma Navarro, her first career Top 10 victory (she'd been 0-11 vs. Top 10ers), and then Seoul champion and U.S. Open quarterfinalist Beatriz Haddad Maia, as well. She fell to top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka in the final eight, but became one of four Poles (along w/ Magda Linette in this same event) to have reached a 1000 QF (Iga & Aga were the other two).

10-2 in her last dozen matches, all in the 4Q, Frech will crack the Top 25 on Monday.


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VETERAN: Magda Linette/POL
...Linette, 32, has had an under-the-radar presence on tour over the past two years while countrywoman Iga Swiatek has spent all but eight weeks of that same stretch looking down from atop the singles rankings.

Last season, Linette reached the AO semis (a year after Iga did it), and cracked the Top 20. This year, she's reached a pair of finals, winning in Prague, her first tour-level singles title in more than four years. After upsetting #5 Jasmine Paolini in the 3rd Round in Beijing, Linette followed up this week with a maiden career 1000 QF in Wuhan.

The Pole knocked off Liudmila Samsonova, Lesia Tsurenko (via retirement... shocking, I know) and Dasha Kasatina before falling to Coco Gauff in the QF in straight sets.

Linette left New York having gone just 3-4 since her Prague title run, but she's picked things up again on the Asian swing, compiling a 6-3 mark thus far.


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COMEBACK: Ekaterina Alexandrova/RUS
...Alexandrova came into Wuhan sitting on a .500 season record (23-23). She found her stride with wins over Sofia Kenin, Anna Kalinskaya and Hailey Baptiste to post her second 1000 QF+ result (w/ Miami SF) of the season. She had a chance for even more, holding 2 MP in a three-set loss -- one before a deciding TB, and another during it after rallying from 5-0 down w/ six straight points -- vs. Wang Xinyu, but fell in an 8-6 breaker.

Alexandrova was ranked as high as #15 in April (a career best), but slipped during a spring stretch when she lost seven of eight after reaching the Miami semis, and had dropped five of seven when she lost to Dasha Kasatkina in the 1st Round in Cincinnati. Since then, she's rebounded with an 8-5 run and will climb back into the Top 30 on Monday.



Playing doubles alongside #1-ranked Katerina Siniakova (as an unseeded pair, which is just unfair to the field), Alexandrova was part of a 2nd Round upset of Beijing champs Errani/Paolini. The duo reached the semifinals, but fell short of the final (Alexandrova's only WD final at tour level came in 2019) with a loss to Anna Danilina & Irina Khromacheva.
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FRESH FACES: Erika Andreeva/RUS and Wang Xinyu/CHN
...while her sister Mirra has been starring on the big tour all season long, Erika has been having her own career year.

The 20-year old has cracked the Top 100 in '24, posted her first MD slam wins in London and New York and reached her maiden tour-level QF (Monterrey). In Wuhan, Andreeva recorded her best result in a 1000 event, doing so the hard way as a lucky loser after falling in qualifying to veteran Lesia Tsurenko.

MD wins over Dayana Yastremska and, in their first meeting as pros, 17-year old Mirra (6-3/6-1) put Erika into the 3rd Round, where she lost in straights to Jasmine Paolini.

While Mirra just cracked the Top 20 at the start of the week, Erika will rise to a new career-high of her own at #67.



While Zheng Qinwen (as in Beijing) was the clear Chinese star in Wuhan, Wang made huge unroads of her own.

The 23-year old reached her maiden 1000 SF with wins over Caroline Dolehide, Lucia Bronzetti and Jessie Pegula (her second career Top 10 win, w/ the other also being over Pegula at Wimbledon) to reach the QF, where she saved a pair of MP and defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova in an 8-6 3rd set TB (after losing a 5-0 TB lead, and facing one of those MP) to help set up the first all-CHN Wuhan semifinal vs. Zhang.

Zhang won in straight sets, but Wang moves back into the Top 40 from #51. Her career high is #32 from last October.
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ITF PLAYER: Olga Danilovic/SRB
...Danilovic always seems as if she's a moment away from one of the sort of results that make you wonder why she doesn't have such moments more often. She had another one of those this week in Cornellà de Llobregat, Spain, where she took a $100K crown without dropping a set.

The 23-year old Serb's second career $100K win included wins over Despina Papamichail, Dalma Galfi, Kaitlin Quevedo and Arantxa Rus in a 6-2/6-0 final.

A WTA title winner in her tour MD debut in 2018, it took Danilovic four years to reach her second WTA final. But she won her biggest title since '18 last year in a 125 (def. Emma Navarro in the final), as well as picking up her first career $100K. This season, she notched her first career Top 10 win in six years with an upset of Danielle Collins at Roland Garros, where Danilovic played her way into her first slam Round of 16.

She'll return to the Top 100 on Monday, rising to a career-best #86.
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JUNIOR STARS: Jana Kovackova/CZE and Maya Iyengar/USA
...another week, another Crusher junior champ. In this case, it's the leading edge of *another* generation of Czechs.

Kovackova is just 14, and has recently claimed 14u event crowns such as the Orange Bowl last winter, this summer's Wimbledon and the most recent ITF 14s team championship. In Casablanca (J300), she competed with a field of older girls and walked off with her biggest career title (she already had six J30/J60/J100/J200 wins in '24).

Ranked #111, Kovackova (#6 seed) defeated Serbia's Luna Vujovic in the final. Vujovic had upset the #1 seed, Jana's 16-year old sister Alena, in the 2nd Round. With the title, Jana is now on a 25-match junior winning streak that dates back to the summer. She's 35-1 since spring, and 44-2 since March.

The Kovackova sisters joined forced to win the doubles, as well.



Meanwhile, 17-year old Bannerette Iyengar took the J300 crown at the Pan American regional championships held in Spring, Texas.

The #5 seed, Iyengar defeated #2 Annika Penickova and #3 Nadia Lagaev before winning an almost three-hour final over #6 Aspen Schuman, 6-3/4-6/6-4.



Iyengar reached her maiden pro final at the San Diego $15K in June.
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DOUBLES: Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva, KAZ/RUS
...while Errani/Paolini likely lead the unofficial race for "Best Doubles Duo" for '24, and Katerina Siniakova for "Doubles Player of the Year," Danilina & Khromacheva's 4Q push is making a case for their inclusion in such conversations.

Both woman claimed their first career 1000 titles in Wuhan (Danilina won the U.S. Open MX crown in '23), taking out top seeds Gaby Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe early in the week, then irregular partners Siniakova & Ekaterina Alexandrova in the semis. A 6-3/7-6 win in the final over Asia Muhammad/Jessie Pegula secured the pair's tour-lead tying (w/ the Italians) fourth title of the season, and sixth overall in '24 with their additional pair of 125 crowns.

Playing (and winning) with other partners earlier in the season, this is Danilina's fifth win of the year and Khromacheva's WTA-leading sixth. They've won *three* titles together (w/ Guadalajara 500 and Hua Hin 250) after the U.S. Open, going 14-1 since New York (where they lost in the QF to eventual champs L.Kichenok/Ostapenko) and 31-5 together over the course of the entire season.

Hmmm, might Danilina actually be under consideration for *Kazakh* Player of the Year?


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1. Wuhan Final - Aryna Sabalenka def. Zhang Qinwen
...6-3/5-7/6-3. Both Sabalenka and Zheng ultimately accomplished long and short-term season goals in Wuhan, as Sabalenka's title run means that Iga Swiatek must outperform her in the WTAF to prevent the Belarusian from claiming the season-ending #1 spot, and Zheng pretty close to assured herself of her maiden WTAF berth by collecting enough points to establish a nearly insurmountable gap between herself and Emma Navarro (in the Points Race, not off the court) for the final spot in the field.

The actual final turned out to be an interesting one, too.

After Sabalenka claimed the 1st set, she nearly closed out Zheng in straights. But the Chinese #1 nipped her to force a 3rd for the first time in their four meetings. Sabalenka led 3-0, and was two points (on serve) from a 4-0 edge and held a BP for 4-1 on Zheng's serve. Zheng won both games to close to 3-2.

Serving for the win at 5-2, Sabalenka was broken at love, handing over the game with a DF on BP. Serving to stay alive a game later, Zheng fell behind love/30 and saved a MP, saw her converted GP overturned by a Sabalenka challenge, and saved a second MP before finally going out on a third as the Belarusian won her third straight Wuhan title (five years after the event was last held in '19) and improved to 17-0 in the tournament.



Meanwhile, another reason that the era of on-court linespeople is likely breathing its last, dying gasps.



Well, nonsensical as the burst of emotion was, at least Qinwen didn't threaten to shove a ball down anyone's throat or, you know, kill them or anything.
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2. Wuhan QF - Wang Xinyu def. Ekaterina Alexandrova
...4-6/7-5/7-6(6). A match that started with seven straight service breaks then had just three the remainder of the match. As it turned, come the 3rd set, both women would blow big leads, as Alexandrova served at 5-4 and held MP.

Wang forced a TB, where she led 5-0 only to see the Russian surge back into the lead at 6-5 with another MP before the Chinese woman swept the final three points to join Wang Qiang (and, later that day, Zheng Qinwen) as the only home favorites to reach the SF in the tournament's history.


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3. Wuhan SF - Zheng Qinwen def. Wang Xinyu
...6-3/6-4. Wuhan was about a *series* of intriguing match-ups, from Andreeva-vs.-Andreeva to Sabalenka-vs.-Gauff and this first all-CHN SF match-up in Wuhan. The only previous Chinese semifinalist in the event had been Wang Qiang in 2018.

Zheng held her position and prevailed, improving upon her Beijing SF to become the first home nation woman to reach the title match in the history of either of the 1000 level events held in China.



The result? Another big match-up with an AO final replay of Sabalenka-vs.-Zheng.
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4. Wuhan 2nd Rd. - Hailey Baptiste def. Barbora Krejcikova
...6-3/7-5. Baptiste notches her first career Top 10 win *and* produces her first better-than-2nd Rd. '24 tour result. She lost in the 2nd Round at RG and in 1000s at Indian Wells and Beijing.

Krejcikova was 10-1 in July (including a 7-win run to the Wimbledon title), but has gone just 8-12 in the other nine months of this year (7 of those wins came in a pair of AO and Olympic QF runs). Still, she'll be in the WTAF singles round robin, with a shot to add another huge result to one of the oddest seasons of recent vintage.


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5. Wuhan SF - Aryna Sabalenka def. Coco Gauff
...1-6/6-4/6-4. Something had to give, as Sabalenka's 15-match Wuhan winning streak met up with Gauff's 9-match run in China.

Coco raced out to a 5-0 1st set lead before Sabalenka found her way into the match as Gauff's serve couldn't keep up the pace.

Gauff dropped serve twice in a row to open the 2nd, but conversely broke Sabalenka *three* straight times to open the set. Gauff led 4-2, but held serve just once more in the set. Sabalenka reeled off four straight games to tie the match, then led 3-0 and 4-2 in the 3rd. She broke Gauff to win a 6-4 3rd, as Coco ended with 21 DF.

The Belarusian's win evened the head-to-head series at 4-all.


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6. Wuhan 1st Rd. - Viktoriya Tomova def. Ashlyn Krueger
...1-6/7-6(8)/7-5. Tomova rallies from triple MP down at 6-3 in the 2nd set TB, then saves a fourth at 8-7 before winning 10-8 to force a 3rd. After falling behind 0-2 in the decider, the Bulgarian completes the comeback to win in three.
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7. Wuhan 1st Rd. - Yulia Putintseva def. Zhang Shuai
...6-4/6-4. No panic. It's just a *two*-match losing streak. Zhang is still 4-2 in her last six.

Okay, so Zhang also lost in the first round of Ningbo qualifying (to Olivia Gadeckia) this weekend. Still, three is long way from twenty-four, right?
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8. Wuhan 2nd Rd. - Magdalena Frech def. Emma Navarro
...6-4/3-6/6-3. Is Navarro the next Sakkari, bound to live on in the Top 10 for seemingly eons, buoyed by a single great result (U.S. Open semi) and nice runs in a smattering of small and/or underpopulated events scattered across the schedule?

Frech's first career Top 10 win dropped Navarro to 2-4 starting with her virtual no-show in the U.S. SF (she's 1-6 in '24 semis, with the last win back in January), and officially opened the door for her to be caught in the WTAF points race at the eleventh hour as Zheng Qinwen passed her for 7th place with her own 2nd Round win on the same day in Wuhan and after reaching the final is now 543 points ahead of her for the final spot in the inaugural WTAF in Riyadh.

Navarro would have to win *both* Ningbo and Tokyo to even have a shot at passing her.

Of course, Elena Rybakina could do the funniest thing...
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9. Wuhan 2nd Rd. - Magda Linette def. Lesia Tsurenko
...5-2 ret. Another week, another Tsurenko retirement. Or so it seems.

After posting good qualifying wins over Linda Fruhvirtova and Erika Andreeva, as well as in the 1st Round over Katie Boulter, the Ukrainian retires after dropping the opening set vs. Linette.

It's her fourth retirement/walkover of '24, and her *19th* since the start of 2021.


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10. Osaka Q2 - Ena Shibahara def. Marina Stakusic
...2-6/7-6(2)/7-6(7). Shibahara's quest for singles success persists, and she continues to find it. Here she won a three-hour final Q-round battle vs. the young Canadian, saving a pair of MP at 6-5 down in the 2nd set. Shibahara won a 9-7 deciding 3rd set TB to take the match.

The two were knotted 123-123 in total points (winners: Shibahara 57, Stakusic 54), and combined to save 21 of 25 BP chances.

Into her fifth WTA MD of the year, former "doubles specialist" Shibahara has totaled 49 singles wins in 2024. She has just 14 in doubles.
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1. Wuhan 2nd Rd. - Erika Andreeva def. Mirra Andreeva
...6-3/6-1. The dynamic between sisters is often misunderstood, especially when it comes to a "big" sister vs. a "little" one.

20-year old Erika (#70, and a LL in Wuhan) handily winning in her maiden match-up vs. 17-year old Mirra (#19) is probably more along the lines of the "norm," as Serena vs. Venus is not exactly the template for *anything* else in tennis (or most things, for that matter).


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2. Osaka Q1 - Ena Shibahara def. Linda Fruhvirtova
...3-6/7-6(4)/7-5. Fruhvirtova led 6-3/5-3 and held a MP, then rallied from 4-1 down in the 3rd to get back on serve at 6-5, only to drop her serve and lose the match.

With the result, the 19-year old Czech loses her ninth straight match, and hasn't won or played a MD tour-level match since Notthingham, nor advanced past the 2nd Round in a WTA event all season long. Ranked at a career-best #49 in June of last year, and finishing in the Top 100 for a second straight season, Fruhvirtova drops out of the Top 200 on Monday.

Last fall, Fruhvirtova reached her maiden WTA SF in Ningbo.
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*2024 WTA SINGLES TITLES*
5 - Iga Swiatek, POL = Slam, 1000(4)
4 - ARYNA SABALENKA, BLR = Slam(2), 1000(2)
3 - Elena Rybakina, KAZ = 500(3)
3 - Diana Shnaider, RUS = 500,250(2)
[2020-24]
22 - 1/2/8/6/5 = Iga Swiatek
12 - 3/2/0/3/4 = ARYNA SABALENKA
8 - 1/5/2 = Ash Barty (ret.)
8 - 0/3/2/2/1 = Barbora Krejcikova
7 - 0/1/0/4/2 = Coco Gauff
7 - 1/0/1/2/3 = Elena Rybakina

*WTA HARD COURT TITLES - active*
31 - Venus Williams
24 - Caroline Wozniacki
20 - Victoria Azarenka
20 - Petra Kvitova
15 - ARYNA SABALENKA (4 in '24)
13 - Simona Halep
12 - Iga Swiatek (2)
[2020-24]
11 - Iga Swiatek (0/1/5/3/2)
10 - ARYNA SABALENKA (3/1/0/2/4)
6 - Ash Barty (1/3/2 ret)
5 - Coco Gauff (0/0/0/3/2)
5 - Anett Kontaveit (0/4/1/0 ret)
5 - Barbora Krejcikova (0/1/2/2/0)
4 - Dasha Kasatkina (0/2/2/0/0)
4 - Jessie Pegula (0/0/1/2/1)
4 - Elena Rybakina (1/0/0/1/2)

*TOP 10 FINALS in 2024*
Brisbane - #4 Rybakina def. #2 Sabalenka
Doha - #1 Swiatek def. #4 Rybakina
Indian Wells - #1 Swiatek def. #9 Sakkari
Madrid - #1 Swiatek def. #2 Sabalenka
Rome - #1 Swiatek def. #2 Sabalenka
Cincinnati - #3 Sabalenka def. #6 Pegula
U.S. Open - #2 Sabalenka def. #6 Pegula
Wuhan - #2 Sabalenka def. #7 Zheng
==2024 FINALS (29) - WON/LOST=
13 (12-1) - Swiatek
14 (5-9) - SABALENKA
5 (1-4) - Pegula
5 (0-5) - Sakkari
3 (2-1) - Barty, Rybakina
3 (1-2) - Kontaveit
2 (2-0) - Gauff
2 (0-2) - Jabeur
1 (1-0) - Badosa, Garcia, Halep, Muguruza
1 (0-1) - Andreescu, Krejcikova, Pliskova, Zheng

*MOST WTA FINALS in 2024*
7 - ARYNA SABALENKA (4-3)
5 - Iga Swiatek (5-0)
5 - Elena Rybakina (3-2)
5 - Dasha Kasatkina (1-4)
4 - Jessie Pegula (2-2)
3 - Diana Shnaider (3-0)
3 - Danielle Collins (2-1)
3 - ZHENG QINWEN (2-1)
3 - Jasmine Paolini (1-2)

*CAREER WTA FINALS - active*
83 - Venus Williams
55 - Caroline Wozniacki
42 - Petra Kvitova
42 - Simona Halep
41 - Victoria Azarenka
34 - Karolina Pliskova (2024:2)
30 - Vera Zvonareva
31 - ARYNA SABALENKA (7)
26 - Iga Swiatek (5)

*2024 REPEAT WTA WS CHAMPS*
Coco Gauff - Auckland
Aryna Sabalenka - Australian Open
Iga Swiatek - Doha (3 con.)
Iga Swiatek - Roland Garros (3 con.)
Katie Boulter - Nottingham
Zheng Qinwen - Palermo
Jessie Pegula - Canada
Aryna Sabalenka - Wuhan (3 con.; 2018-19,'24)

*WUHAN OPEN QF+ - CHN*
2018 Wang Qiang (SF)
2024 Wang Xinyu (SF)
2024 Zheng Qinwen (RU)

*MOST WTA SF in 2024*
9 - Iga Swiatek (4-4 +W)
8 - ARYNA SABALENKA (6-2)
8 - COCO GAUFF (2-6)
7 - Elena Rybakina (5-2)
7 - Jessie Pegula (4-2 +L)
7 - Emma Navarro (1-6)
5 - Dasha Kasatkina (4-0 +W)
5 - ZHENG QINWEN (4-1)
5 - Diana Shnaider (3-2)
5 - Ekaterina Alexandrova (1-4)

*2024 WTA DOUBLES TITLES*
6 - IRINA KHROMACHEVA
5 - ANNA DANILINA
4 - Cristina Bucsa
4 - Sara Errani
4 - Jasmine Paolini
4 - Katerina Siniakova
[duos]
4...DANILINIA/KHROMACHEVA
4...Errani/Paolini
3...Hsieh/Mertens
3...L.Kichenok/Ostapenko
2...Kenin/Mattek-Sands
2...Melichar-Martinez/Perez
[2020-24]
20 - Katerina Siniakova (1/6/6/3/4)
14 - Barbora Krejcikova (1/5/3/4/1)
12 - Elise Mertens (1/4/2/2/3)
11 - Hsieh Su-wei (4/2/0/2/3)
9 - ANNA DANILINA (0/1/2/1/5)
9 - Desirae Krawczyk (2/2/1/3/1)
9 - Nicole Melichar-Martinez (2/2/2/0/3)
9 - Laura Siegemund (1/0/3/5/0)

*2024 WTA DOUBLES FINALS*
8 (6-2) = IRINA KHROMACHEVA, RUS
7 (5-2) = ANNA DANILINA, KAZ
7 (2-5) = Erin Routliffe, NZL
5 (4-1) = Sara Errani, ITA
5 (4-1) = Jasmine Paolini, ITA
5 (4-1) = Katerina Siniakova, CZE
5 (3-2) = Lyudmyla Kichenok, UKR
5 (3-2) = Nicole Melichar-Martinez, USA
5 (3-2) = ASIA MUHAMMAD, USA
5 (2-3) = Chan Hao-ching, TPE
5 (1-4) = Gaby Dabrowski, CAN
[2024 finals - duos]
5...DANILINA/KHROMACHEVA (4-1)
5...Errani/Paolini (4-1)
5...Dabrowski/Routliffe (1-4)
4...L.Kichenok/Ostapenko (3-1)
4...Melichar-Martinez/Perez (2-2)
4...Chan Hc./V.Kudermetova (1-3)

*2024 WTA 1000 CHAMPIONS*
Doha - Iga Swiatek, POL
Dubai - Jasmine Paolini, ITA
Indian Wells - Iga Swiatek, POL
Miami - Danielle Collins, USA
Madrid - Iga Swiatek, POL
Rome - Iga Swiatek, POL
Canada - Jessie Pegula, USA
Cincinnati - Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
Beijing - Coco Gauff, USA
Wuhan - Aryna Sabalenka, BLR
[doubles]
Doha - Demi Schuurs/Luisa Stefani, NED/BRA
Dubai - Storm Hunter/Katerina Siniakova, AUS/CZE
Indian Wells - Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens, TPE/BEL
Miami - Sofia Kenin/Bethanie Mattek-Sands, USA/USA
Madrid - Cristina Bucsa/Sara Sorribes Tormo, ESP/ESP
Rome - Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, ITA/ITA
Canada - Caroline Dolehide/Desirae Krawczyk, USA/USA
Cincinnati - Asia Muhammad/Erin Routliffe, USA/NZL
Beijing - Sara Errani/Jasmine Paolini, ITA/ITA
Wuhan - Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva, KAZ/RUS

*OFFICIAL WTA COACH OF YEAR WINNERS + updates*
2018 Sascha Bajin (Osaka) - fired in 2019
2019 Craig Tyzzer (Barty) - Barty retired in early 2022
2020 Piotr Sierzputowski (Swiatek) - replaced at start of 2022
2021 Conchita Martinez (Muguruza) - ended in late '23; Muguruza retired
2022 David Witt (Pegula) - fired in early 2024
2023 Tomasz Wiktorowski (Swiatek) - replaced in late 2024






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