Saturday, June 29, 2024

Wk.26- Cheer the Kasatkina (on the grass)







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*WEEK 26 CHAMPIONS*
EASTBOURNE, ENGLAND (WTA 500/Grass Outdoor)
S: Dasha Kasatkina/RUS def. Leylah Fernandez/CAN 6-3/6-4
D: Lyudmyla Kichenok/Alona Ostapenko (UKR/LAT) def. Gaby Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe (CAN/NZL) 5-7/7-6(2) [10-8]
BAD HOMBURG, GERMANY (WTA 500/Grass Outdoor)
S: Diana Shnaider/RUS def. Donna Vekic/CRO 6-3/2-6/6-3
D: Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez (USA/AUS) def. Chan Hao-ching/Veronika Kudermetova (TPE/RUS) 4-6/6-3 (10-8)




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Dasha Kasatkina/RUS
...at times in Eastbourne this week, watching Kasatkina was magical. She often seemed to have the answer to every question, and pulled them off with flair and precision worthy of a museum. If she hadn't walked off with the title -- *finally* this season, and for the first time in almost two years -- it would have been sorely disappointing. This week, at least, even the Tennis Gods weren't *that* cruel.

Wins over Wang Xinyu and Yuan Yue opened Kasatkina's week, then she stepped up to abruptly end Emma Raducanu's QF run in straights. Against RG finalist Jasmine Paolini, the Hordette rallied from a set down and an early break in the 3rd to collect her 23rd career Top 10 win, improving to 3-0 in SF (w/ a walkover W) in 2024 and reaching a final on a third different surface this season.

But as Kasatkina advanced to the final against Leylah Fernandez, one year after losing in the Eastbourne final to Madison Keys (in a match that included a 15-13 2nd set TB loss), her five-final losing streak hovered like an albatross over her head. Her last win was in the tiny Granby event days before the U.S. Open in 2022. For good or bad, Fernandez had prevented a rematch with Keys, defeating the U.S. veteran in the semis.

Kasatkina brought her best vs. the Canadian, though, winning 3 & 4 to grab her 7th tour title (first on grass, after being 0-2), allowing her to add her name to the list of active players (now 16) who have won WTA titles on hard court, clay and grass over their careers.

Kasatkina reached a QF at Wimbledon six years ago, but hasn't advanced past the 3rd Round in her three appearances since then.


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RISERS: Leylah Fernandez/CAN and Jasmine Paolini/ITA
...for the second time this month a Canadian woman reached a tour-level grass final, but also for the second time she didn't leave town with the crown. The first week of the pre-SW19 grass season started with a final run from Bianca Andreescu at Rosmalen (where she lost to a Hordette), and this week the last included Fernandez doing the same in Eastbourne (and also losing to a Hordette).

Oh, Canada.

Fernandez posted wins over Barbora Krejcikova, Ashlyn Krueger and Harriet Dart to reach her first SF of the season (her last were her back-to-back Hong Kong title and Nanchang SF two-fer last October, which preceded her BJK Cup Final heroics), and the first of her tour career on grass (all eight of her pro finals -- 5 WTA, 3 ITF -- had come on hard court). After taking down defending champ Madison Keys in three sets, the Canadian played in her sixth career final against Dasha Kasatkina.

As she'd been all week, though, Kasatkina's game was too finely tuned in Eastbourne for many to make much of a dent. The Russian won 3 & 4, though Fernandez will climb back into the Top 25 in the last pre-Wimbledon rankings.

Fernandez has only played in two Wimbledon MD in her career, putting up 1r & 2r results, respectively, in 2021 and '23.



In her first outing since her RG final run, Paolini picked up where she left off with a SF in Eastbourne, the first of her career on grass. After Elise Mertens retired in Paolini's opening match, Paolini knocked off Nottingham champ Katie Boulter to reach her third '24 SF on a third different surface. She fell in three sets to Dasha Kasatkina, but heads to Wimbledon as the #7 seed at the AELTC. The Italian is 0-3 in MD play at SW19, but is 9-2 in slam play this year.


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SURPRISE: Viktorija Tomova/BUL
...the later-blooming Tomova's career year continued in Bad Homburg. The 29-year old Bulgarian reached a QF on her third different surface in '24 (w/ Hobart hard court QF, Rabat clay SF), and her second SF of the season.

Tomova got wins over past Wimbledon semifinalist Tatjana Maria and Linda Noskova, then assured her Top 50 ascension with a win over Anna Blinkova in which she saved five MP and won an 11-9 deciding TB. A win away from her first tour final for the second time this year, though, Tomova lost to Donna Vekic to fall to 0-4 in her WTA career in semis (w/ the previous two coming in 2020).

Tomova is also still looking to post a new career-best slam result this season, having gone out in the 2nd Round in both Melbourne and Paris, though those finishes match her previous career bests (three Wimbledon 2r results in three MD appearances between 2018-23). With a 1st Round win at SW19 next week, Tomova could then face #5 Jessie Pegula in the 2nd Round.
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VETERAN: Donna Vekic/CRO
...a year ago, Vekic reached her fourth career tour-level grass final (and the biggest yet) in the Berlin 500. She fell in straight sets to Petra Kvitova, leaving her title run in Nottingham in 2017 as the only of her four career WTA titles to come on the surface (she'd also lost finals in Birmingham and in a second Nottingham title match).

Vekic was back in Germany this week, in Bad Homburg, and once again found her way into another 500-level grass final, her first on any surface since her loss in Berlin. Wins over Lucia Bronzetti and Ekaterina Alexandrova had preceded a walkover from Katerina Siniakova that put her in the semis, where she defeated Viktoriya Tomova to add another city to her grass final list.

That's where it ended, though, as Vekic fell in three sets to Diana Shnaider. It drops her to 1-4 in grass finals, and 4-9 overall in her WTA career. The Croat hasn't seen her success on other lawns translate to success at the All-England Club just yet, though, as she's reached just one Round of 16 (2018) in nine appearances.

Once again, just like last year, Vekic didn't leave Germany with a title, but she'll always have her "Happy Birthday" moment after her Friday SF win over Tomova, which just so happened to occur on the 28th anniversary of her birth.


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COMEBACK: Emma Raducanu/GBR
...it was a good tune-up week in Eastbourne for Raducanu, who played well but not *so* well that she risked *over*-playing into the weekend ahead of Wimbledon, hurting her chances there. As a result, by Friday...



The Brit posted a dominant victory over Sloane Stephens, then saved MP vs. Jessie Pegula to record her first career Top 10 win (yes, that's a real stat... showing just how stunning her '21 U.S. Open run was, as well as her inability to stay on the court for long ever since).

That said, Raducanu *has* beaten several Top 10 players the last few years, they just weren't ranked in the Top 10 *at the time* (including the likes of Azarenka, Bencic, Garcia, Haddad Maia, Kerber, Sakkari, Stephens, Vondrousova and S.Williams).

Against Pegula, after escaping the 2nd set, Raducanu led 5-2 in the 3rd but struggled with the pressure of serving it out. It took her three tries, but she finally prevailed. The Brit fell a round later in the QF to an in-form Dasha Kasatkina.

One note: during Tennis Channel coverage, Jimmy Arias talked about working a bit with Raducanu, and recounted how once he wanted her to fix a tiny kink in her forehand. He said that he told Raducanu that she just needed to add a little spin to do it. Arias remembered that she wouldn't simply make the change until he gave her all the details on *why* he wanted her to do it, how it would change things, etc. Arias (you could still hear the frustration in his voice) said he went round and round with her on the subject until he finally gave up and explained everything she wanted just to move forward.

One wonders if that sort of thing might offer some insight into why Raducanu has gone through so many coaches the last few years, as the "perfect fit" for her isn't just a "plug-and-play" type of deal.
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How the week started for Diana Shnaider...



How it ended...



FRESH FACES: Diana Shnaider/RUS and Emma Navarro/USA
...having already won her first tour title in 2024 (after playing in her first WTA final last September), Shnaider made herself a multi-title winner (and maiden 500 champ) by the end of the first week of summer by taking the honors in Bad Homburg.

Straight sets wins over Angie Kerber, Dayana Yastremska and Paula Badosa put the Hordette into her first grass semi, then back-to-back three setters over Emma Navarro and Donna Vekic got her into the winner's circle. The result jumps Shnaider from an already career-high #47 to #30 in the final pre-Wimbledon rankings.

Afterward, Diana had a date with an elephant...



Navarro's "Most Improved Player" nomination campaign added her fourth SF of the season in Bad Homburg. The Bannerette posted wins over Jaqueline Cristian, Peyton Stearns and Caroline Wozniacki (the Dane retired in the 3rd) before falling in three sets to Shnaider.


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DOWN: Maria Sakkari/GRE
...so, we now at least know it's not all David Witt's fault.



After becoming the second Top 10 player (after Pegula) this year to dump Witt as coach (after her Berlin 1st Round exit), Sakkari promptly went to Bad Homburg and -- checks notes -- was tossed in the 1st Round again.

After starting 17-6 after hiring Witt back in February (reaching the Indian Wells Final, Miami QF, Charleston SF and Madrid/Rome 4th Rd., praising Witt all the way), Sakkari dropped her last three matches in the partnership. The Greek's loss this week to Jule Niemeier was her fourth straight.

Only this time Sakkari was shown the door in a match in which she unsuccessfully argued a call and then accused the chair umpire (who was German) of not ruling in her favor because her opponent (Niemeier) was also German. "You think I was born yesterday," she said.

So we add this to the lenghty list of the Greek's complaints since the start of last season, which have previously included opponents who yell too loudly in her direction when they score a point (which Sakkari also does), those who hit balls aimlessly around court (which she's also done) and those who rub out marks in the dirt after their opponent's argument over a call has already been decided against and it's time to move on with play (Niemeier couldn't do that during Sakkari's tantrum since, you know, it was a grass match).

Earlier Sakkari firee Tom Hill -- apparently it gets easier after you do it once -- was canned the week she fell out of the Top 10 for a lone week, but Witt was shown the door before that could happen again. And it might. Sakkari heads into Wimbledon at #9, just four points ahead of #10 Ons Jabeur, and just less than 300 points from #11. Sounds familiar. As does this...

Of course, with Jabeur defending finalist points at SW19, Sakkari could get yet another in the long, long, long list of reprieves (she lost in the 1st Round in '23, so she'll lose nothing) when it comes to somehow, some way holding onto a Top 10 spot. Maybe the Tennis Gods will give the rest of us a break, though. We'll see.

Sakkari has been ousted in the opening round at four of the last five majors.
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JUNIOR STAR: Hannah Kluglman/GBR
...jumping over to Wimbledon qualifying for this one.

While she ultimately fell just short, 15-year old Brit Klugman was one of the stories of the week at Roehampton. She opened with a win over Petra Marcinko, then backed it up with an even bigger upset of #28-seeded Czech Crusher Linda Fruhvirtova. She fell 3 & 3 in the final round to Alycia Parks (w/ her ninth straight win), but marked herself as the latest new young hope for GB. If Klugman had won she would have *easily* been the youngest player in the MD, besting by two years the 17-year olds (Mirra Andreeva and Brenda Fruhvirtova) who'll be competing in the 1st Round... against each other, by the way.

Klugman (now the girls' #6) had already sent up some signs over the past year that she was worth watching. A year ago at Wimbledon, she upset #9-seeded Federica Urgesi in the 1st Round of juniors, then reached the girls' doubles final. She also reached the QF at the U.S. Open junior singles, and at age 14 won the Orange Bowl 18s crown in December, notching wins over Laura Samson, Iva Jovic and Tyra Caterina Grant.

She reached the Traralgon SF heading into the AO this past January, as well.

Last October at the Shrewsbury $100K challenger, Klugman made it through qualifying, breaking Coco Gauff's record as the youngest to reach a $100K MD. She reached the QF.


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DOUBLES: Lyudmyla Kichenok/Alona Ostapenko, UKR/LAT and Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez, USA/AUS
...Ostapenko's singles results left a lot to be desired this grass season (1-2, w/ Tomljanovic awaiting in the Wimbledon 1st Rd.), but her doubles game was on point in Eastbourne.

The Latvian teamed with Kichenok to claim a fourth WTA title together, their second this season. Two years ago, the pair reached but lost the Eastbourne final, but they made good on their second chance, eliminating #2 seeds Krejcikova/Siegemund in the QF and then #1 seeds Dabrowski/Routliffe (recent winners in Nottingham) in a 10-8 MTB in the final. Dabrowski/Routliffe had served for the title at 7-5/6-5.

It's Kichenok's ninth tour title, and Ostapenko's eighth (matching her career singles title total).



Meanwhile, Bad Homburg saw Melichar-Martinez/Perez get a rare title in another of the many WTA titles in which they've appeared since their first less than two years ago.

After losing no sets en route to the title match, the duo's fourth of the season, they rallied from a set down to defeat Chan HC./V.Kudermetova (RU last week in Berlin) in a 10-8 MTB.



The win levels Melichar & Perez's record in '24 finals to 2-2. They're still just 3-11 in finals together, though, after earlier this season ending an eight-final losing streak with a win in San Diego. It's Melichar's 14th tour title (she'd been 0-4 in grass finals), and #7 for Perez.
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WHEELCHAIR: Jiske Griffioen/NED
...the bigger Series 1 pre-SW19 wheelchair event takes place in London during the first week of Wimbledon, but a smaller Series 2 tournament was held in Eastbourne this week. The winner? Griffioen, the woman who won the inaugural Wimbledon WC singles crown back in 2016.

The 39-year old Dutch player took the Rothesay International crown with a 6-1/6-2 win in the final over Zhu Zhenzhen. It's Griffioen's first grass win since she won at the AELTC.



Griffioen teamed with Lucy Shuker to take the doubles, too, defeating Zhu & Dana Mathewson 6-3/7-5 in the final.
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1. Eastbourne 2nd Rd. - Emma Raducanu def. Jessie Pegula
...4-6/7-6(6)/7-5. Nearly three years after winning the U.S. Open, Raducanu finally records her first career Top 10 win. It wasn't easy.

Pegula, who won in Berlin last week after saving five MP, led 6-4/3-1 here, then was up 3-0 in the 2nd set TB. She held a MP at 6-5, but the Brit forced a 3rd.

There, it was Raducanu who raced out to a 5-2 edge before nearly squandering it all. Twice she served for the win, and twice she fell behind love/40. Broken on both occasions, she threw in a DF and several UE as she lost serve at love as Pegula got things back on serve at 5-5. But Raducanu got the break for 6-5, and a third chance to serve it out.

Down love/30, Raducanu seemingly fired a clean winner, only to have Pegula challenge the mark and get the call reversed and take a love/40 lead once again. But Raducanu held on, saving four BP before finally converting on her first MP to get the win.
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2. Bad Homburg QF - Viktoriya Tomova def. Anna Blinkova
...2-6/6-1/7-6(9). Blinkova posted two wins (over Andreescu and Haddad Maia) in Bad Homberg, her first multi-win event since Indian Wells, but couldn't come through in her favored 3rd set TB (in which she'd been 5-1 since 2022).

The Russian held five MP in the deciding TB, starting at 6-4 and with the last at 9-8, but Tomova surged last to sweep the final three points to reach her first career grass semifinal.


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3. Bad Homburg Final - Diana Shnaider def. Donna Vekic
...6-3/2-6/6-3. It hasn't escaped Shnaider's notice that she's been collecting a vast array of animal-related singles trophies this season.



Hua Hin (whale)...



Paris 125 (gorilla)...



Bad Homburg (elephant)...

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4. Eastbourne Final - Dasha Kasatkina def. Leylah Fernandez
...6-3/6-4. For the fourth time in less than two years (since Week 32 of 2022), a pair of Russians lift tour singles titles on the same weekend. On three of those occasions, Kasatkina was one of the two raising trophies.


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5. Bad Homburg 1st Rd. - Jule Niemeier def. Maria Sakkari
...2-6/6-2/7-6(4). Niemeier's 2024 spring upturn ($100K RU, 125 SF, RG Q) had turned downward since Paris, as she came into Bad Homburg at just 2-4 on grass, with three three-set losses for the former Wimbledon quarterfinalist.

But Sakkari is rarely one to stand in the way of allowing an opponent a moment of positivity, adding Niemeier to the long list of players who got a much needed "Top 10" win against the Greek. A lucky loser this week, Niemeier rallied from a set down and won a deciding TB to pick up her fourth career Top 10 victory (third on grass) and hand Sakkari a fourth straight loss.



With four 1st Round lossse in the last five majors, Sakkari opens at Wimbledon vs. McCartney Kessler. Hmmm... yeah, I could envision it.
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6. Eastbourne 1st Rd. - Harriet Dart def. Marie Bouzkova
...7-5/6-7(9)/6-4. Another Brit brings her best on home grass, as Dart takes down Bouzkova in 3:29 to pick up her first Top 50 win since *last* year's Eastbourne event (defeat #11 of Zhang Shuai's 20-match losing streak).


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7. Bad Homburg 1st Rd. - Caroline Wozniacki def. Elina Svitolina
...6-3/6-7(5)/7-5. Hmmm.



So, I guess Svitolina's "mom mission" is now officially over, while Caro's continues on. Hers is not to be confused, of course, with Osaka's "mom on a mission" mission in Paris and (I assume) London, as well. I wonder what Angie has to do to have the WTA social media dub any chapter of *her* season with the "mom on a mission" tag? Oh, and does Vika still count as a "mom on a mission," or did that mission end once Leo was able to talk in complete sentences. I won't even ask about Tatjana Maria.

Still, these are the questions that *need* to be answered before we all get confused.
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8. Bad Homburg QF - Emma Navarro def. Caroline Wozniacki
...4-6/6-1/1-0 ret. Wozniacki took a tumble in the 1st set, but managed to win it. After that, it was a case of diminishing returns until the Wimbledon WC pulled up in the 3rd (likely with the preservation of her SW19 appearance, her first since 2019, in mind).

The Dane posted a pair of Top 40 wins over Elina Svitolina and Veronika Kudermetova on the week, a first in her comeback (and first overall since her title run in Beijing in October 2018, when she notched five straight, along with one over then-#41 Bencic).


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9. Eastbourne QF - Dasha Kasatkina def. Emma Raducanu 6-2/6-2
Eastbourne QF - Leylah Fernandez def. Harriet Dart 6-2/6-1
Eastbourne QF - Jasmine Paolini def. Katie Boulter 6-1/7-6(0)
...a British QF bloodbath on Eastbourne glass.

A day earlier, on the June 26 anniversary of the original Radwanskian Massacre at Wimbledon, Raducanu had saved a MP to upend world #5 Jessie Pegula, while her countrywoman (Boulter def. Alona Ostapenko, Dart def. Sofia Kenin) both took down a former slam champion.
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10. Eastbourne 1st Rd. - Karolina Muchova def. Elina Avanesyan
...3-1 ret. In Muchova's first match since the U.S. Open. What were the odds?
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11. Eastbourne 2nd Rd. - Karolina Muchova def. Magda Linette
...6-4/6-1. A reminder of what we miss from the oft-absent Czech...


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12. Eastbourne QF - Madison Keys w/o Karolina Muchova
...sigh. Hopefully this doesn't spiral, as Muchova's seemingly-precautionary withdrawals/retirements often do.



What she's done on the big stage despite so few opportunities over the years -- including a Top 10 ranking, slam final, major SF+ at three different majors and a pair of QF in a fourth in just 19 MD chances from 2018-23, 11 Top 10 wins over four seasons, and a 6-2 career mark vs. the Top 3 (4-1 in slams) -- is akin to what the most frustrating tennis "What If...?" scenarios are built upon.

Crossing fingers that *this* comeback sticks.
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1. Bad Homburg Final - Nicole Melichar-Martinez/Ellen Perez def. Chan Hao-ching/Veronika Kudermetova
...4-6/6-3 [10-8]. With her two wins in her last two finals this season with Perez, Melichar-Martinez has won as many titles in four months as she did over the nearly three-year stretch (May '21-February '24) it took her win her two most recent previous titles in 16 final appearances.
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2. Eastbourne Final - Lyudmyla Kichenok/Alona Ostapenko def. Gaby Dabrowski/Erin Routliffe
...5-7/7-6(2) [10-8]. Ultimately, Dabrowski/Routliffe (Nottingham champs) came within two points of being the first duo since 2018 (Latisha Chan & Martina Hingis) to win multiple doubles titles on grass between RG and Wimbledon.


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*MOST WTA FINALS in 2024*
5 - Iga Swiatek (5-0)
5 - Elena Rybakina (3-2)
4 - DASHA KASATKINA (1-3)
4 - Aryna Sabalenka (1-3)
3 - Danielle Collins (2-1)
2 - Katie Boulter (2-0)
2 - Alona Ostapenko (2-0)
2 - DIANA SHNAIDER (2-0)
2 - Jasmine Paolini (1-1)
2 - Karolina Pliskova (1-1)
2 - Anna Kalinskaya (0-2)
2 - Marta Kostyuk (0-2)

*MOST WTA FINALS - 2020-24*
25 - 1/2/9/8/5 = Swiatek (22-3)
19 - 3/3/3/6/4 = Sabalenka (9-10)
17 - 5/0/3/4/5 = Rybakina (7-10)
12 - 1/7/4/0 ret...Kontaveit (5-6-1)
12 - 0/3/6/3/0 = Jabeur (5-7)
12 - 0/4/2/2/4 = KASATKINA (5-7)

*RECENT RUS MULT.TITLES IN WTA WEEK*
2022 Wk.32 - Kasatkina/SAN JOSE, Samsonova/WASHINGTON
2022 Wk.35 - Kasatkina/GRANBY, Samsonova/CLEVELAND
2022 Wk.38 - Alexandrova/SEOUL, Samsonova/TOKYO
2024 Wk.26 - Kasatkina/EASTBOURNE, Shnaider/BAD HOMBURG

*2024 WTA TITLES, MOST SURFACES*
2 - Danielle Collins = Hard,Green Clay
2 - Elena Rybakina = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Iga Swiatek = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Katie Boulter = Hard,Grass
2 - DIANA SHNAIDER = Hard,Grass
[2024 WTA FINALS, MOST SURFACES]
3 - Danielle Collins = Hard,Green Clay,Red Clay
3 - DASHA KASATKINA = Hard,Green Clay,Grass
2 - Marta Kostyuk = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Elena Rybakina = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Iga Swiatek = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Aryna Sabalenka = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Jasmine Paolini = Hard,Red Clay
2 - Katie Boulter = Hard,Grass
2 - Karolina Pliskova = Hard,Grass
2 - Anna Kalinskaya = Hard,Grass
2 - DIANA SHNAIDER = Hard,Grass

*MOST WTA SF in 2024*
7 - Iga Swiatek (4-2 +W)
6 - Elena Rybakina (5-1)
6 - Coco Gauff (1-5)
4 - DASHA KASATKINA (3-0 +W)
4 - Danielle Collins (3-1)
4 - Aryna Sabalenka (3-1)
4 - Jessie Pegula (1-2 +L)
4 - Ekaterina Alexandrova (1-3)
4 - EMMA NAVARRO (1-3)
3 - Karolina Pliskova (2-0 +L)
3 - Marta Kostyuk (2-1)
3 - JASMINE PAOLINI (2-1)
3 - MADISON KEYS (1-2)
3 - Liudmila Samsonova (1-2)
3 - Victoria Azarenka (0-3)
3 - Anhelina Kalinina (0-3)

*WTA TITLES - RUS (active)*
12 - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
12 - Vera Zvonareva
7 - DASHA KASATKINA
5 - Liudmila Samsonova
4 - Ekaterina Alexandrova
3 - Elena Vesnina
2 - Veronika Kudermetova
2 - Anastasia Potapova
2 - Margarita Betova (Gasparyan)
2 - DIANA SHNAIDER
1 - Anna Blinkova
1 - Maria Timofeeva

*WTA TITLES ON HARD/CLAY/GRASS (active)*
Belinda Bencic, SUI (gc)
Caroline Garcia, FRA (rc)
Simona Halep, ROU (rc)
Ons Jabeur, TUN (rc/gc)
DASHA KASATKINA, RUS (gc)
Angelique Kerber, GER (rc/gc)
Madison Keys, USA (gc/rc)
Petra Kvitova, CZE (rc)
Sabine Lisicki, GER (gc)
Alona Ostapenko, LAT (rc)
Karolina Pliskova, CZE (rc)
Elena Rybakina, KAZ (rc)
Katerina Siniakova, CZE (rc)
Venus Williams, USA (rc/gc)
Caroline Wozniacki, DEN (rc/gc)
Vera Zvonareva, RUS (rc)

*2024 WTA DOUBLES TITLES - DUOS*
3...Hsieh/Mertens, TPE/BEL
2...Errani/Paolini, ITA/ITA
2...Kenin/Mattek-Sands, USA/USA
2...L.KICHENOK/OSTAPENKO, UKR/LAT
2...MELICHAR-MARTINEZ/PEREZ, USA/AUS
[2020-24 - duos]
12..Krejcikova/Siniakova (1/5/3/3/0)
8...Aoyama/Shibahara (1/5/0/2/0)
7...Siegemund/Zvonareva (1/0/2/4/0)
5...Gauff/Pegula (0/0/3/2/0)
5...Hsieh/Mertens (0/2/0/0/3)
5...Hsieh/Strycova (4/0/-/1/-)
4...L.KICHENOK/OSTAPENKO (0/0/2/0/2)

*2024 WTA DOUBLES FINALS - DUOS*
4...MELICHAR-MARTINEZ/PEREZ (2-2)
3...Errani/Paolini (2-1)
3...L.KICHENOK/OSTAPENKO (2-1)
3...CHAN HC./V.KUDERMETOVA (1-2)
3...DABROWSKI/ROUTLIFFE (1-2)
2...Hsieh/Mertens (2-0)
2...Kenin/Mattek-Sands (2-0)
2...Hunter/Siniakova (1-1)
2...Guo/Jiang (0-2)






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Blogger khan35 said...

For me, Shnaider is the player of the week. Really been impressed by her level this week. Is it grass or her serve got significantly better? I see a future top-ten player in Diana Shnaider. She got a tough draw at Wimbledon, but I expect her to reach at least Round of 16.

I think before retiring, Madison Keys will make at least one Wimbledon final appearance. I think this is the year for that to happen. She got a good draw to achieve that.

Swiatek got a brutal draw from hell.

Sun Jun 30, 04:18:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Todd.Spiker said...

Shhh... you shouldn't say things like that about Madison out loud. ;)

Mon Jul 01, 09:50:00 PM EDT  

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