The world leader recognizes the best tennis player of the year, Ostapenko does not receive the award

This also means that Ostapenko and Kichenoka, who won two titles this season by winning the prestigious Cincinnati “WTA 1000” tournament and the Birmingham “WTA 250” competition, were not nominated for the award.

They also fought to the title matches in the “WTA 500” tournaments in Dubai and Eastbourne, and reached the semi-finals in the Wimbledon Championship and the French Open Championship.

Both players also secured a place in the finals of the WTA season for the first time, where they won one of their subgroups, but it was enough to reach the semi-finals, where they failed.

Ostapenko and Kichenoka played a total of 17 tournaments this season, winning 34 matches.

Brazilian tennis player Beatrice Haddad-Maya received the annual award for the greatest progress.

She is the first Brazilian to win one of the WTA season awards since their introduction in 1977.

She became the first female tennis player to win the “WTA 250” series tournaments in Nottingham and Birmingham in one season on grass courts.

In August, she entered the world’s top 20 tennis players for the first time, reaching a record 15th place in the ranking.

The Rookie of the Year award was given to China’s Qinwen Zhen, who defeated Ostapenko in the first round of the US Open.

At the end of 2022, she entered the world’s top 25 tennis players.

Qinwei is the second Chinese woman to win the WTA’s annual award. Jen Jie won the comeback of the year award in 2008.

This year, the German tennis player Tatjana Maria, who defeated Ostapenko in the Wimbledon round of 16, will receive this award.

Having missed the competition from the summer of 2020 to July 2021 due to the birth of her second child Cecilia, in 2022 Maria triumphed in the “WTA 250” series tournament in Bogota after overcoming the qualifying competition, winning the second title of her career, and later reached the semifinals at Wimbledon.