Martina Navratilova predicts Iga Swiatek’s ranking at the end of the 2023 season © Provided by Tennis World USA
Martina Navratilova thinks Iga Swiatek will end the 2023 season in first place in the world rankingsbut the tennis legend also noted that the fight for the top spot is much tighter this year than it was this time 12 months ago.In this week’s updated WTA rankings, Swiatek leads with 9,490 points, while Aryna Sabalenka follows with 8,746 points..
This week, Swiatek and Sabalenka are both taking part in the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal. Swiatek and Sabalenka don’t have many points to defend this week, having suffered losses in the round of 16 at the National Bank Open last year.
Swiatek has already won a title on hard courts this summer, the Pole having won in Warsaw after Wimbledon.
Navratilova thinks Swiatek will end the year as number 1
“Winning in Warsaw was not as easy as it might have seemed.
There was a lot of pressure for her to succeed, but she got through it. She won the US Open last year, so Iga must feel good on the hard courts. It seems that hard courts and clay are his best surfaces.
She won on faster courts as well as slower courts. I think she likes a real bounce and can still slide on hard. Apart from Coco Gauff, I think she’s the bestefficient and fast.
I believe she is still the favorite to finish the year in first place, but it is much closer than last year at this time,” Navratilova told the WTA.A Wimbledon website. , Swiatek was on the verge of losing the world number one spot to Sabalenka.
After Swiatek’s loss in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon, Sabalenka only needed to reach the final to become the new world number 1. But in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, Sabalenka lost a set and a break lead against Ons Jabeur and missed the chance to overtake Swiatek in first place.
2023-08-10 04:00:09
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