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By E.J. CrawfordTuesday, October 24, 2017
The WTA Finals annually affection the actual best in women’s tennis, the top eight players in the apple to that point, a accumulating of stars that double, best often, as US Open champions.
But not in 2017. In fact, this year’s WTA Finals affection alone one amateur – Venus Williams – who has anytime won a US Open women’s singles title.
Contrast that to 2016, back Angelique Kerber, Svetlana Kuznetsova and Serena Williams were all in the WTA Finals field, or 2015, back Serena, Flavia Pennetta and Maria Sharapova all competed, and 2017 absolutely feels like an anomaly.
Typically, acceptable a US Open appellation all but ensures a amateur will authorize for the WTA Finals. In fact, the aftermost woman to win the singles appellation in New York and not authorize for the WTA Finals was Kim Clijsters, who came out of retirement and did not alike annals a baronial back she captured her additional of three US Open titles in 2009. Prior to that, it was Venus, who won the additional of her two Open titles in 2001 but had to abjure from that year’s WTA Finals with an injury.
A agnate bearings to Clijsters’ 2009 played out this year. Sloane Stephens won a abruptness US Open acme at No. 83 in the world, her baronial accepting plummeted while she sat out 11 months, from August 2016 to July 2017, with a accent breach in her bottom that appropriate surgery. Stephens’ beginning Grand Slam achievement has alveolate her to No. 13, a beauteous ascend in so abbreviate a time but not abundant to accretion a atom in Singapore.
In agreement of added contempo US Open champions, 2016 champ Kerber suffered through a bottomward 2017 and is currently No. 19 in the world; 2015 best Flavia Pennetta retired afterward her appellation run; and Serena Williams, Flushing’s champ anniversary year from 2012 through 2014, is out on maternology leave, targeting a acknowledgment to the bold aboriginal in 2018.
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