2024 WTA News & Gossip

[MargaretMcAleer]

New Career Highs WTA Top 100, Monday 23 September,
31. Frech
47. Avanesyan
61. Sramkova
67. E.Andreeva
74. Zaeazua
84. Gadecki

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

WTA Top Ten, Monday September 23rd,

1. Swiatek
2. Sabalenka
3. Pegula
4. Rybakina
5. Paolini
6. Gauff
7. Zheng
8. Navarro
9. Collins (+1)
10. Krejcikova (+1)

Maria Sakkari loses point from Guadalajara 2023 and leaves the Top Ten. Down to #17.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

China Open, WTA1000
Tournament takes place in Beijing, China from September 25-October 6th.
This year the tournament was expanded to 2 weeks and to 96 players in singles.It is held at the same time as an ATP500 tournament.

Defending champion Iga Swiatek.
Top 8 seeds,
Sabalenka, Pegula, Paolini, Gauff, Zheng, Navarro, Krejcikova, Ostapenko.
There are 32 seeds and all receive a first round bye.
There are 8 wild cards all are from China.
Protected Ranking,
Irina-Camelia Begu, Ajla Tomljanovic, Wang Qiang
There were 17 withdrawals including,
Swiatek, Rybakina, Jabeur, Sakkari, Collins and Raducanu.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Longest losing streak in WTA history finally snapped!
After enduring a record breaking run of 24 consecutive losses, Zhang Shuai gets her first singles win since January 2023, defeating McCartney Kessler 76(5) 76(1) at home in Beijing.Zhang has continued to thrive in doubles, now faces Emma Navarro

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Ostapenko has withdrawn from Beijing.Dolehide moves into her seeded slot and Kprpatsch comes in as a LL to play Burel

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Having split with previous coach Brad Gilbert, Coco Gauff is now working with Matt Daly ( Daly worked with Denis Shapovalov last year) as a new voice in addition to long time coach Jean Christophe Faurel.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Zhang Shuai, who lost a record 24 consecutive tennis matches in the last 19 months, easily defeats world no 8 Emma Navarro 64 62 to reach the 3rd round at the WTA100 in Beijing
( this is a big blow on Emma's WTA Finals chances)

 

[kskate2]

Welp, she might have overperformed. I've noticed that about her climb this year. She can't put 2 good back to back results together. She did well at IW and then bombed out of MIA and Charleston. Same thing happened this summer. She did well at Wimby, but bombs out of OG and Cinci.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Caroline Garcia has announced she is closing the curtain on her 2024 season, as she needs to heal her ongoing shoulder injury and mentally reset.
Garcia registered a 3-4 record at Grand Slams this year and fell in the 1st round of the Olympics.