HOW THE LEADING WOMEN’S CONTENDERS AND BEST AUSSIE HOPE SHAPE UP FOR WIMBLEDON:
IGA SWIATEK (POL)
Age: 22
Ranking: 1
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US19,154,913
Career titles: 14
Grand slam titles: 4 (French Open 2020, 2022, 2023; US Open 2022)
Wimbledon win-loss file: 5-3
Best Wimbledon consequence: fourth spherical 2021
Fresh off a 3rd French Open triumph, the Pole stays the pre-eminent drive in girls’s tennis. But the world No.1 has but to beat grass and has proven vulnerability with a number of losses in latest months to her closest pursuers within the rankings.
ARYNA SABALENKA (BLR)
Age: 25
Ranking: 2
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US17,115,459
Career titles: 13
Grand slam titles: 1 (Australian Open 2023)
Wimbledon win-loss file: 6-4
Best Wimbledon consequence: semi-finalist 2021
Like Swiatek, the big-hitting Belarusian boasts three titles and one slam from 5 finals in 2023, whereas the world No.2’s run to the semi-finals at SW19 two years in the past – as a Belarusian she was barred from competing final outing on account of her nation’s assist for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – suggests she’s nearer than ever to difficult for tennis’ best prize.
ELENA RYBAKINA (KAZ)
Age: 24
Ranking: 3
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US10,265,398
Career titles: 5
Grand slam titles: 1 (Wimbledon 2022)
Wimbledon win-loss file: 10-1
Best Wimbledon consequence: champion 2022
The defending champion once more appears the participant to beat after downing Swiatek 3 times already this 12 months and going inside a set of including the Australian Open crown to her grand slam assortment in January.
ONS JABEUR (TUN)
Age: 28
Ranking: 6
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US10,012,542
Career titles: 4
Grand slam titles: 0
Wimbledon win-loss file: 11-5
Best Wimbledon consequence: finalist 2022
The Tunisian has but to succeed in the lofty heights of final season, when she made the Wimbledon and US Open finals, however she hasn’t regarded that far off and will simply go one higher in 2023 if she will survive the primary week and discover her grass-court contact.
COCO GAUFF (USA)
Age: 19
Ranking: 7
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US7,271,817
Career titles: 3
Grand slam titles: 0
Wimbledon win-loss file: 8-3
Best Wimbledon consequence: fourth spherical 2019, 2021
It’s unimaginable to assume that 4 years after beautiful five-time champ Venus Williams on the hallowed London grass courts, the US prodigy continues to be a teen. A cost to final 12 months’s French Open ultimate and rise to world No.1 in doubles are sufficient to indicate she will win Wimbledon.
PETRA KVITOVA (CZE)
Age: 33
Ranking: 9
Plays: left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US36,765,447
Career titles: 31
Grand slam titles: 2 (Wimbledon 2011, 2014)
Wimbledon win-loss file: 35-12
Best Wimbledon consequence: champion 2011, 2014
The resurgent Czech veteran looms as a participant to keep away from after warming up superbly with a fifth profession grass-court title in Berlin, having additionally gained the celebrated Miami Open this 12 months. A 3rd Wimbledon triumph would full one among sport’s nice comebacks.
BEST OUTSIDER
BEATRIZ HADDAD MAIA (BRA)
Age: 27
Ranking: 13
Plays: left-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US3,961,255
Career titles: 2
Grand slam titles: 0
Wimbledon win-loss file: 2-2
Best Wimbledon consequence: second spherical 2017, 2019
A 12 months after beautiful the tennis world with back-to-back grass-court titles in Nottingham and Birmingham, then making the semi-finals in Bad Homburg, the artful southpaw proved the actual cope with a cost to the French Open’s final 4 in early June. Capable of going deep.
BEST AUSSIE HOPE
DARIA SAVILLE
Age: 29
Ranking: 228
Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Career prize cash: $US4,903,739
Career titles: 1
Grand slam titles: 0
Wimbledon win-loss file: 3-6
Best Wimbledon consequence: third spherical 2018
With two-time quarter-finalist Ajla Tomljanovic cruelly nonetheless sidelined with a knee damage, Saville joins qualifier Storm Hunter as Australia’s solely girls’s hopes after utilizing a protected rating to make her personal comeback from a torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
