Sunday, September 15, 2024

Wk.37- A Final Summer Fling (or two)

It's late summer, and that's when the sombrero is worn at a jaunty angle.







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*WEEK 37 CHAMPIONS*
GUADALAJARA, MEXICO (WTA 500/Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Magdalena Frech/POL def. Olivia Gadecki/AUS 7-6(5)/6-4
D: Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva (KAZ/RUS) def. Oksana Kalashnkova/Kamilla Rakhimova (GEO/RUS) 2-6/7-5 [10-7]
MONASTIR, TUNISIA (WTA 250/Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Sonay Kartal/GBR def. Rebecca Sramkova/SVK 6-3/7-5
D: Anna Blinkova/Mayar Sherif (RUS/EGY) def. Alina Korneeva/Anastasia Zakharova (RUS/RUS) 2-6/6-1 [10-8]
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (WTA 125/Red Clay Outdoor)
S: Miriam Bulgaru/ROU def. Kathinka von Deichmann/LIE 6-3/1-6/6-4
D: Carole Monnet/Darja Semenistaja (FRA/LAT) def. Aliona Bolsova/Katarzyna Kawa (ESP/POL) 1-6/6-2 [10-7]
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (WTA 125/Red Clay Outdoor)
S: Jil Teichmann/SUI def. Nuria Parrizas Diaz 7-6(8)/6-4
D: Nuria Brancaccio/Leyre Romero Gormaz (ITA/ESP) def. Lina Gjorcheska/Jil Teichmann (MKD/SUI) 5-7/7-5 [10-7]




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Magdalena Frech/POL
...while Iga Swiatek remains the leading Polish figure in women's tennis, the crowd is growing just a few paces behind her. As of this Monday, the first countrywoman in line behind the world #1 will now be Frech.

Frech reached her first slam second week at the Australian Open in January (Iga didn't even do that, falling in the 3r), and then played in her maiden tour final earlier this summer, where she lost a battle with fellow Pole Magda Linette. This week, the 26-year old made her way to an even bigger final in Guadalajara, taking out the likes of Emina Bektas, Ashlyn Krueger, Marina Stakusic and Caroline Garcia to get there.

Frech downed first-time finalist Olivia Gadecki in the title match in straight sets, picking up career tour win #1 in her second try. She'll crack the Top 40 on Monday, rising from #43 to #32 and passing Linette for POL #2 in the process.


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RISERS: Eva Lys/GER and Camila Osorio/COL
...in Monastir, 22-year old Lys reached her second '24 SF (third career) with a good run of victories that included wins over Lesia Tsurenko, top seed Elise Mertens (fourth career Top 50, first this year, after trailing 6-1/2-0) and Zeynep Sonmez before retiring due to illness down 5-1 in the 1st set against Sonay Kartal.

A qualifier this season at three straight majors (RG/WI/US; after falling in the final Q-round at the AO), Lys will rise near her previous career-high (#108 in July) to #110.



In Guadalajara, Osorio's first career 500 SF (and first by a Colombian) included wins over Hailey Baptiste and Kamilla Rakhimova, as well as one of the monster comebacks of the year. In her 2nd Round match, Veronika Kudermetova held a 5-0, *three*-break lead in the 3rd set before Osorio reeled off seven straight games to take home the victory. A loss to Olivia Gadecki ended Osorio's week, but only after her second-best result of '24 after her title in Bogota.

Before this week, Osorio had been just 1-2 on summer hard courts following a 3rd Round Olympic result that included wins over Alona Ostapenko and Dayana Yastremska (and a three-setter vs. Danielle Collins).

Osorio will lift her ranking from #80 to #61.


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SURPRISES: Sonay Kartal/GBR and Rebecca Sramkova/SVK
...already a Wimbledon qualifier who reached the 3rd Round (w/ maiden Top 100 wins over Sorana Cirstea and Clara Burel), as well as having won five ITF challenger titles on the season and setting a series of career high ranks in recent months, Kartal continues to climb the ladder.

In Monastir, the Brit became the first qualifier to win a title on tour this season, knocking off career-first appearances in the QF, SF and final while defeating the likes of Jaqueline Cristian (7-5 3rd, for her third Top 100 win this year), Mai Hontama, Yuliia Starodubtseva and Eva Lys (ret. at 5-1 in 1st). In the final, the 22-year old Kartal defeated Sramkova 6-3/7-5, good enough to pick up her maiden tour title, crack the Top 150 and *nearly* the Top 100 (#105) in the new rankings.



Sramkova fell to Kartal in her maiden appearance in a tour-level final (her SF was also a first) in Monastir, but the Slovak did good work to get there, taking out Elsa Jacquemot, Clara Burel, Sara Sorribes Tormo (in 3:22, from a set and a break down, then after saving a MP in the 3rd) and Lucia Bronzetti.

Even before this week, '24 had been a career year for the 27-year old, who made her 1000 MD debut at Indian Wells, garnered an opening round win, and then reached the Round of 16 in her second 1000 MD (Madrid) a few months later. Sramkova cracked the Top 100 in the spring, and climbed as high as #89. She'll move up from #136 to #101 on Monday.


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VETERAN: Nuria Parrizas Diaz/ESP
...Parrizas Diaz didn't pick up the title at the Ljubljana 125, falling in the final to Jil Teichmann, but the 33-year old Spaniard added another good result to an under-the-radar season.

A SF win over Olga Danilovic was Parrizas Diaz's 13th straight win, as she reached her fourth singles final this season (she'd been 3-0, with a 125 and two $100K titles). Up to #83 on Monday (she didn't break the Top 100 until after turning 30), she's reached a tour-level QF (Cluj) and recorded her sixth career 1000 MD win (Indian Wells) in 2024.
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COMEBACK: Jil Teichmann/SUI
...Teichmann has been ranked as high as #21 (2022), reached a slam second week ('22 RG 4r), starred in Cup play for SUI, played in a 1000 final ('21 Cincy) and two other SF (Madrid '21/Dubai '22) and won a pair of WTA titles (both in '19), but has had a difficult time staying consistent enough to remain relevant for long.

There's been some movement, albeit it at lower levels, this season. Already with a small challenger title under her belt in May, the current #182-ranked Swiss took the Ljubljana 125 crown this week, her biggest since tour-level Palermo five years ago.

Teichmann showed resilience en route to the final, avoiding a collapse in the 1st Round vs. Susan Bandecchi after failing to convert six MP and being forced into a 3rd set TB, then saving a MP vs. Kristina Dmitruk in the QF. Wins over Francesca Jones and Nuria Parrizas Diaz finished off her run, after which she'll be ranked #169.

Teichmann's 33 match wins (29 on clay) on the season are her most since 2019.

Teichmann also reached the doubles final alongside Lina Gjorcheska, but fell in a MTB to Nuria Brancaccio & Leyre Romero Gormaz.
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FRESH FACES: Olivia Gadecki/AUS and Marina Stakusic/CAN
...in 2021, an 18-year old Gadecki caused a stir when she upset then world #4 Sofia Kenin (the reigning AO champ) in a pre-Australian Open event Down Under. Now 22, after her progress was somewhat delayed by her inability to travel outside of Australia a few seasons ago (due to vaccine regulations), she's finally made her move in 2024.

The Aussie won her first WTA doubles title in Austin earlier this year, and reached a $100K final last month. This week in Guadalajara she qualified and then ran off wins over Sloane Stephens, Danielle Collins, Martina Trevisan and Camilia Osorio as she cracked tour-level barriers with every round with her maiden QF, SF and final appearance.

In the Sunday night final vs. Magdelana Frech, Gadecki didn't become the second qualifier of the week (w/ Sonay Kartal) to lift a trophy, nor did she become the first Aussie to win a tour-level singles title since Ash Barty's AO triumph in 2022, but with her runner-up result she'll crack the Top 100 and go from being the AUS #7 (at #152) at the start of the week to the new #1-ranked Aussie at #88 on Monday, passing by the likes of Saville, Joint, Rodionova, Tomljanovic, Preston and Birrell in one fell swoop.

In Guadalajara, 19-year old Canadian wild card Stakusic (from Mississauga, Ontario... just like you-know-who) reached her maiden tour-level QF with big wins over Olympic semifinalist Anna Karolina Schmiedlova and Alona Ostapenko, the latter her first career Top 15 win (Alona just fell out of the Top 10 after the U.S. Open) after staving off four MP. She fell to Magdalena Frech, but will rise to a new career high #127.


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DOWN: Alona Ostapenko/LAT and Veronika Kudermetova/RUS
...both have been common nominees for this spot more and more as the season has gone on, and the opening week of the final quarter of the season proved to be no different for both in Guadalajara.

Ostapenko lost in her opening match to teenager Marina Stakusic after leading 4-1 and 5-3 in the 3rd and holding four MP, dropping her fourth straight match and sixth in seven since reaching the Wimbledon QF.

Meanwhile, Kudermetova may be nearing the end of the most disappointing season in singles of any player on tour. In 2023, the Hordette won a 500 title, reached a 1000 final and two other 1000 semis while recording six Top 10 wins.

This week, she lost in the 2nd Round to Camila Osorio after having a *triple*-break lead in the 3rd (5-0!) only to then lose seven straight games to close out the "L." She's 13-20 on the season, with just a single QF (Charleston) on her ledger.

She's managed to salvage *something* with her doubles game, at least, reaching three 500 finals (winning one) and the U.S. Open semis with Chan Hao-ching.
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ITF PLAYERS: Talia Gibson/AUS and Tessah Andrianjafitrimo/FRA
...Gibson lost in qualifying at all four majors in '24, but her run to her biggest career title in a $75K challenger in Perth, with a three-set win over Maddison Inglis in the final, will likely lead to the 20-year old Aussie getting a wild card into the 2025 AO MD.

Gibson lost in the 1st Round to Clara Burel in Melbourne (as a WC) in her lone slam MD appearance in 2023.



In Le Neubourg (FRA), 25-year old Pastry Andrianjafitrimo carried out what has been a good summer run, reaching her third final since the start of July and winning her second straight challenger at the $75K event. Ranked #429 after an injury-related late start to her season (in April), the wild card French woman upset top seed Daria Snigur, then followed up a win over Tamira Paszek with a 6-2/6-4 victory over Manon Leonard in the final. She'll climb back to nearly inside the Top 300 on Monday (her career high is #139 in '22).

It's Andrianjafitrimo's eighth and biggest career title. With ten straight match wins, she's 27-8 on the season and is on a 19-2 sprint this summer.

When Andrianjafitrimo has missed time due to injury in recent seasons, she's often served as an additional coach for boyfriend Ugo Humbert.


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DOUBLES: Anna Danilina/Irina Khromacheva, KAZ/RUS
...Danilina & Khromacheva have been piling up results at all levels this season, winning a pair of 125 crowns and going 1-1 in tour-level finals (winning in Iasi, RU in Budapest) since July. In Guadalajara, they added another.

The pair dropped no sets en route to the final, then rallied from a set down vs. Oksana Kalashnikova & Kamilla Rakhimova to win a 10-7 MTB for the crown.

It's title #7 for Danilina (third in '24, in her fifth overall final), while it's the sixth tour-level win from Khromacheva (fourth this year, tying Bucsa and Siniakova for the tour lead).


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WHEELCHAIR: Luna Gryp/GER
...with the big WC tour taking a top-level break after the Paralympics, 15-year old Gryp took the Cologne Junior WC event title with a dominating week of round robin play.

The German, #6 in the girls' rankings and coming off an appearance in the U.S. Open junior doubles final (w/ singles finalist Vitoria Miranda), went 4-0 in matches, sweeping all eight sets and claiming 48 of 53 games played.

Gryp posted a big win over a higher seed in the U.S. Open girls' singles just two weeks ago.


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1. Guadalajara 2nd Rd. - Marina Stakusic def. Alona Ostapenko
...6-3/5-7/7-6(0). Hmmm, is Stakusic getting ready for Canada's BJK Cup defense in the fall?

The teenager claimed her first Top 15 win vs. Ostapenko, after both players staged in-match comebacks to stay alive.

Stakusic led 6-3/5-3, but Ostapenko forced a 3rd with a 7-5 win. In the decider, it was Ostapenko who led 5-3, holding a MP at 5-4 and then three more at 6-5 before the teenager got the break on BP #4 of game 12. Having gained the momentum in the match, Stakusic then swept a 7-0 tie-break to get the upset victory.


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2. Monastir QF - Rebecca Sramkova def. Sara Sorribes Tormo
...1-6/7-6(5)/7-5. In Sorribes Tormo's tour lead-tying (w/ Saville) fifth three-hour MD WTA match this season, the Spaniard fails to cross the finish line in the lead after holding a set and 2-0 advantage, and serving for the match at 6-5 in the 2nd.

Sramkova held a double-break lead at 3-0 in the 3rd, but Sorribes Tormo staged a comeback to lead 5-3 and hold a MP. Sramkova swept the final four games and reached her maiden tour-level final.

Meanwhile, Sramkova also pulled off one of the niftier (I guess that's the right word, but "unexepected" would also work) tweener passing shots we've seen in a while.


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3. Guadalajara Final - Magdalena Frech def. Olivia Gadecki
...7-6(5)/6-4. After falling to Magda Linette in the first all-POL WTA final earlier this summer in Prague, Frech gets hers.

Three different Poles have won titles in '24 (someone named Iga has won multiple), tied for the season with one (CZE) and just behind two other nations (USA-8, RUS-4) that are arguably (or not, really) the three deepest tennis nations in the sport.

Now, the sombreros (and they both were them well, though quite differently)...


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4. Monastir Final - Sonay Kartal def. Rebecca Sramkova
...6-3/7-5. The second of the weekend's two final match-ups between players seeking their maiden tour singles title.

Kartal becomes the fourth active British woman with a tour title, joining Katie Boulter, Heather Watson and Emma Raducanu.
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5. Bucharest 125 Final - Miriam Bulgaru def. Kathinka von Deichmann
...6-3/1-6/6-4. #202-ranked Bulgaru, 25, emerged as the winner in the 125 event in Bucharest, as the Romanian overcame a series of negative stats -- 19-25 on the year coming in, a runner-up in five straight singles finals (all ITF) -- to pick up her biggest career title in front of a home crowd.

Bulgaru's trip to the final included wins over a lucky loser and two qualifiers, then she defeated Liechtenstein's 30-year old von Deichmann (#199), who'd posted victories over two seeds (#1 Maria Lourdes Carle and #6 Selena Janicijevic) and another Romanian (Patricia Maria Tig) to reach her biggest career final.

Bulgaru will climb to #177, a new career high.
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6. Monastir 1st Rd. - Zeynep Sonmez def. Rebeka Masarova 4-6/7-6(4)/6-3
Monastir 2nd Rd. - Zeynep Sonmez def. Greet Minnen 6-4/1-6/6-3
...en route to her first WTA QF (and first by a Turkish woman since the 2017 season, when Cagla Buyukakcay and Basak Eraydin did it), Sonmez overcame Masarova serving for the match at 6-4/6-5 in the 1st Round, then defeated Greet Minnen in another three-setter.

The 22-year old Sonmez made both her 1000 (Doha) and slam (RG) debuts earlier this season, and reached her career high rank of #130.


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7. Monastir 1st Rd. - Sonay Kartal def. Jaqueline Cristian
...4-6/6-3/7-5. Kartal's title run began with a rally from 4-2 back in the 3rd to hand Cristian her fourth straight defeat. Since her 3rd Round result in Madrid, the Romanian has gone 10-14.
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8. Monastir 2nd Rd. - Eva Lys def. Elise Mertens
...1-6/6-2/7-6(4). Mertens led 6-1/2-0, only to see Lys run off ten straight games to lead 4-0 in the 3rd. The Belgian closed to 4-4, and led 6-5 (on serve) before the young German held to force a TB and won it 7-4 to pick up her first Top 50 win of the season.

Mertens is a two-time Monastir winner (2022-23) and had an 11-match unbeaten streak in the event (last year she defeated Jasmine Paolini 3 & love in the final).
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9. Ljubljana 125 1st Rd. - Jil Teichmann def. Susan Bandecchi 6-4/2-6/7-6(4)
Ljubljana 125 QF - Jil Teichmann def. Kristina Dmitruk 5-7/6-4/7-6(1)
...Teichmann's run to the Ljubljana title included a pair of dramatatic three-setters decided by tie-breaks, both of which tested her mettle in different ways from *both* ends of the scoreboard spectrum.

In the first, vs. Bandecchi in her opening match, Teichmann squandered a 5-2 final set set in which she served at 5-4, 40/love and held *six* MP in the game, only to a few games later finding herself *behind* her countrywoman 6-5 on the scoreboard. Teichmann held to force the TB, then won it on MP #8.

In the QF, Teichmann dropped the 1st after leading 3-1, but then erased a 5-3 final set deficit vs. Dmitruk, saving a MP (at 6-5) and then dominating a 7-1 TB.
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10. Monastir 1st Rd. - Antonia Ruzic def. Nadia Podoroska
...1-6/6-2/6-2. 21-year old Croatian Ruzic (#173) pulls the upset of Podoroska in her tour MD debut, and ends up playing into the QF.

Before this WTA result, 2024 had been a lower-level breakout campaign for Ruzic, who picked up her biggest career title ($50K) early in the season. She'll rise to a career-high #154 this week.


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11. Guadalajara 2nd Rd. - Olivia Gadecki def. Danielle Collins
...6-3/6-3. In the final weeks of her WTA career, Collins is still on the outside looking in at her first apperance at the WTAF.

She entered the week at #8 in the Race standings, but behind #10 Barbora Krejickova (an automatic entry w/ her SW19 title), and remains around 400 points behind her nearest target, #7 Emma Navarro.

Ironically, Collins will replace Krejcikova at the bottom of the Top 10 in the newest weekly tour rankings, making it *four* Bannarettes in the Top 10.
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12. Guadalajara 1st Rd. - Renata Zarazua def. Anhelina Kalinina
...6-1/3-6/6-1. Fresh from competing in a fourth major MD in a single season for the first time in her career and climbing to a new career-high ranking, Zarazua gets a 1st Round win on home soil and sees her ranking rise (after a 2nd Rd. exit vs. Martina Trevisan) to another best-ever position of #78.


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13. Guadalajara 2nd Rd. - Kamilla Rakhimova def. Victoria Azarenka
...6-2/3-0 ret. Azarenka is 30-15 on the year, but this was her third in-match retirement of the season. It's her most since 2011.
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14. Monastir 1st Rd. - Sara Sorribes Tormo def. Anna Blinkova
...6-4/6-4. Ttalk about adding insult to injurious ending. Aside from seeing her season record drop to 11-25 with a *ninth* straight loss, Blinkova saw her latest defeat come via an overruled call on MP after she'd thought she'd staved off her own demise. Ouch.



At least Anna got *something* out of singles this week (for what it's worth)...


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1. Guadalajara 2nd Rd. - Camila Osorio def. Veronika Kudermetova
...7-6(5)/6-7(2)/7-5. Osorio has likely never rallied from such a deep deficit, while the same can be said when it comes to "shoulda won" moments for Kudermetova.

In a back-and-forth 1st set, Osorio held a SP at 5-4, but Kudermetova forced a TB. The Colombian led 5-1, and eventually edged the Russian 7-5.

Come the 3rd set, Kudermetova was running away with things, leading 5-0. And not just a "normal" 5-0, it was a triple-break sort of 5-0 lead. She served for the win *three* times as a result, and failed to secure a hold. This time, a TB wasn't even necessary as Osorio won seven straight games to get the win in 3:21.


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2. Monastir Final - Anna Blinkova/Mayar Sherif def. Alina Korneeva/Anastasia Zakharova
...2-6/6-1 [10-8]. While Blinkova's week in singles was pretty disheartening, just like much of her season (the 42-point TB seems like a lifetime ago), she *did* manage to end things on a good note with a doubles title run alongside Mayar Sherif.

It's Blinkova's second WTA win (her first came back in 2018), and Sherif's first at tour-level (in her third career final).

On a side note, this was the first tour-level final (s/d) for 17-year old Korneeva, last year's girls' champion at the AO and RG.


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Meanwhile, back at the ranch...



Apparently, Patrick M. is figuratively "bullet-proof" as a coach.

NOTE TO NAOMI: double and triple-check everything, and then do it again.

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So, in case you were wondering... no, Sakkari isn't out of the Top 10 YET. The voodoo is apparently good for one more week, as since last year's Guadalajara event (a 1000, before this year's downgrade to a 500) was held a week later on the schedule, she only dropped 99 points (from her '23 San Diego QF result).

Actually -- get this -- she'll go UP from #10 to #9 on Monday.

But she's not playing an event this coming week, either, so her title points will come off for the next ranking and she'll *finally* drop from the Top 10 on September 23.

Sakkari has already fired *two* coaches this season -- Tom Hill *and* David Witt -- so no one is expected to bear the brunt of her rankings fall this time around (she fired Hill right after she dropped out of the Top 10 -- for just a week -- earlier this year).






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*2024 FIRST-TIME WTA CHAMPIONS*
Hobart - Emma Navarro, USA (22/#31)
Hua Hin - Diana Shnaider, RUS (19/#108)
Austin - Yuan Yue, CHN (25/#68)
Rabat - Peyton Stearns, USA (22/#81)
Iasi - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (17/#32)
Cleveland - McCartney Kessler, USA (25/#98)
Monterrey - Linda Noskova, CZE (19/#35)
Monastir - SONAY KARTAL, GBR (22/#151)
Guadalajara - MAGDALENA FRECH, POL (26/#43)
[doubles]
Austin - Olivia Gadecki, AUS (21)
Charleston - Ashlyn Krueger, USA (19)
Charleston - Sloane Stephens, USA (31)
Monastir - MAYAR SHERIF, EGY (28)
[mixed]
Australian Open - Hsieh Su-wei, TPE (38)
Olympics - Katerina Siniakova, CZE (28)
U.S. Open - Sara Errani, ITA (37)

*2024 FIRST-TIME WTA FINALISTS*
Emma Navarro, USA (#31/22 = Hobart)-W
Diana Shnaider, RUS (#108/19 = Hua Hin)-W
Anna Kalinskaya, RUS (#40/25 = Dubai)
Mirra Andreeva, RUS (#32/17 = Iasi)-W
Elina Avanesyan, RUS (#76/21 = Iasi)
Magdalena Frech, POL (#57/26 = Prague)
McCartney Kessler, USA (#98/25 = Cleveland)-W
Lulu Sun, NZL (#57/23 = Monterrey)
SONAY KARTAL, GBR (#151/22 = Monastir)-W
REBECCA SRAMKOVA, SVK (#136/27 = Monastir)
OLIVIA GADECKI, AUS (#152/22 = Guadalajara)

*2023 2024 QUALIFIERS IN FINALS*
[2023]
Adelaide 1 - Linda Noskova, CZE (L)
Auckland - Rebeka Masarova, ESP (L)
Hobart - Lauren Davis, USA (W)
Merida - Rebecca Peterson, SWE (L)
[2024]
Dubai - Anna Kalinskaya, RUS (L)
Monastir - SONAY KARTAL, GBR (W)
Guadalajara - OLIVIA GADECKI, AUS (L)

*2024 LOW-RANKED WTA FINALISTS*
#228 - Bianca Andreescu (Rosmalen, lost to Samsonova)
#190 - Ajla Tomljanovic (Birmingham, lost to Putintseva)
#152 - OLIVIA GADECKI (Guadalajara, lost to Frech)
#151 - SONAY KARTEL (Monastir, def. Sramkova)
#136 - REBECCA SRAMKOVA (Monastir, lost to Kartal)
#134 - Aliaksandra Sasnovich (Budapest, lost to Shnaider)
#132 - Amanda Anisimova (Toronto, lost to Pegula)

*2024 MULT.DIFFERENT WTA CHAMPIONS BY COUNTRY*
8-USA [Collins,Gauff,Kessler,Keys,Navarro,Pegula,Stearns,Stephens]
4-RUS [M.Andreeva,Kasatkina,Samsonova,Shnaider]
3-CZE [Krejcikova,,Noskova,Pliskova]
3-POL [FRECH,Linette,Swiatek]
2-CHN [Yuan,Zheng Q.]
2-GBR [Boutler,KARTAL]
2-KAZ [Putintseva,Rybakina]
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[1-BLR,CHN,COL,ESP,ITA,LAT]

*2024 FINALS w/ TWO TITLE-LESS PLAYERS*
Iasi - Mirra Andreeva (0-0) def. Elina Avanesyan (0-0)
Monterrey - Linda Noskova (0-2) def. Lulu Sun (0-0)
Monastir - Sonay Kartal (0-0) def. Rebecca Sramkova (0-0)
Guadalajara - Magdalena Frech (0-1) def. Olivia Gadecki (0-0)

*CAREER WTA TITLES - GBR (active)*
4 - Heather Watson(2012,'15-16,'19-20)
3 - Katie Boulter (2023-24)
1 - SONAY KARTAL (2024)
1 - Emma Raducanu (2021)

*2024 WTA DOUBLES TITLES*
4 - Cristina Bucsa
4 - IRINA KHROMACHEVA
4 - Katerina Siniakova
3 - ANNA DANILINA
3 - Sara Errani
3 - Jasmine Paolini
3 - Hsieh Su-wei
3 - Lyudmyla Kichenok
3 - Elise Mertens
3 - Asia Muhammad
3 - Alona Ostapenko
3 - Taylor Townsend

*2024 WTA DOUBLES FINALS*
7 (2-5) = Erin Routliffe
6 (4-2) = IRINA KHROMACHEVA
5 (4-1) = Katerina Siniakova
5 (3-2) = ANNA DANILINA
5 (3-2) = Lyudmyla Kichenok
5 (1-4) = Gaby Dabrowski

*MOST DIFF. WD #1's IN A SEASON (CAPS: 1st-time #1)*
=2000: 8=
Kournikova-Hingis-Davenport-MORARIU-RAYMOND-STUBBS-HALARD DECUGIS-SUGIYAMA
=2018: 7=
Hingis-L.Chan-MAKAROVA-VESNINA-BABOS-KREJCIKOVA-SINIAKOVA
=2021: 6=
Hsieh-SABALENKA-MERTENS-Mladenovic-Krejcikova-Siniakova
=1992: 5=
Novotna-NEILAND-Zvereva-SANCHEZ VICARIO-Sukova
=1999: 5=
Zvereva-Novotna-Hingis-Davenport-KOURNIKOVA
=2010: 5=
C.Black-L.Huber-S.WILLIAMS-V.WILLIAMS-DULKO
=2011: 5=
Dulko-PENNETTA-PESCHKE-SREBOTNIK-L.Huber
=2017: 5=
Mirza-MATTEK SANDS-SAFAROVA-Hingis-L.CHAN
=2023: 5=
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All for now.

posted by Todd.Spiker @ 11:37 PM 

3 Comments:

Blogger khan35 said...

Frech is a WTA 500 champion. WOW! Let that sink in.... Frech is actually 26 years old.

Raducanu chose wrong tournament to play this week. She should play loads of WTA 250S & WTA 125s. She would get plenty of easy ranking points in that way . I mean Navarro, last year, got herself in the top 50 in the rankings in that route.

Mon Sep 16, 04:30:00 AM EDT  
Blogger Diane said...

Thank you, as always, for the poetry promotion. And I was thrilled for Frech.

Mon Sep 16, 01:57:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Todd.Spiker said...

K-

With all the coaching changes *and* scheduling decisions (both the oddly long breaks *and* 500/250/125 picks) it's hard to tell sometimes just what the path is that Raducanu is trying to go down.

Thanks with the Frech catch (I did have her as 26 in the lists, but not in the PoW section). :/


D-

;)

Sat Sep 21, 11:51:00 PM EDT  

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