Sabalenka, Sakkari, Raducanu move up on Porsche Race to the WTA Finals leaderboard
The ultimate Grand Slam of the season concluded over the weekend on the US Open, with key outcomes from a number of gamers throwing the Porsche Race to the WTA Finals broad open with lower than two months of the season remaining.
Aryna Sabalenka, a semifinalist in New York, added 780 factors to her tally to maneuver as much as No.2 on the Leaderboard and stays in pursuit of Ashleigh Barty, who occupies pole place. Greece’s Maria Sakkari, who additionally made the final 4 at Flushing Meadows, leaps seven locations to sit down at No.6, and together with Sabalenka is seeking to qualify for the WTA Finals for the primary time in singles.
US Open champion Emma Raducanu, courtesy of the two,000 factors earned following her outstanding win in New York, rises 123 locations and is now within the No.14 place, slightly below 400 factors away from the High 8 qualification bracket.
In doubles, recent from lifting their second title of 2021 on the US Open, the workforce of Samantha Stosur and Zhang Shuai loved a surge up the Leaderboard to go from No.22 to No.4. In the meantime Coco Gauff and Catherine McNally, who have been runners-up in New York in what was their first Grand Slam remaining, break into the High 8 to sit down at No.6.
The BGL BNP Paribas Luxembourg Open 2021 and the Zavarovalnica Sava Portoroz characterize lap quantity 30 on the Porsche Race to the WTA Finals (a reference to qualifying tournaments main into the WTA Finals). The High 8 singles gamers and doubles groups of 2021 will safe their spot on the year-end finale.
The singles winner of the Porsche Race to the WTA Finals – the participant who finishes in pole place main into the WTA Finals – won’t solely seal a spot on the season-ending showpiece, but in addition be congratulated with the keys to a brand new Porsche.
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