The 2023 season has ended and it is time to distribute awards, successes and responsibilities. The WTA went ahead of the ATP and announced the winners of the 2023 Awards, with special prominence for Iga Swiatek crowned Best Player of the Year… and with many more notable names making an appearance in these awards.
For many, they may be merely testimonial awards, another formality that has no real weight. However, for many others WTA Awards 2023 They represent the confirmation of 12 months of effort, of stories of improvement in many cases. It never hurts to see how fans, journalists and teammates recognize your work and applaud your year in this way, in some cases both on and off the track. So, without further ado, we review all the winners of these Awards in their different categories, a ‘delivery’ that puts the final touch on the season and prepares us for the next one. The most notable, a Every Swiatek which won the award for best of the season.
– Player of the Year – IGA SWIATEK: She could not be other than the number one in the world, the champion of Roland Garros, WTA Finals and several other titles. Iga has become the first tennis player to win this award two consecutive seasons since Serena Williams, which gives us a pretty good idea of the type of dominance she is implementing in the WTA. Sabalenka stole the number one spot for several weeks, but no one was more consistent, consistent and a winner than the Pole, who not only won this year, but also experienced several learnings through defeat that will surely make Iga an even better player. strong for future seasons.
– Doubles Team of the Year – STORM HUNTER AND ELISE MERTENS: The women’s doubles had a brand new world number one at the end of the season, which leads us to award for the first time a team that has debuted on the circuit in a big way. Two WTA 1000 titles and a Wimbledon final are the main successes of the pairing between Australian and Belgian, crowning Storm as number one at the end of the season… and all this, as we said, in just their first season playing together. Needless to say, this union clicked from day one… and promises many more successes in the next season.
– Most Improved Player of the Year – QINWEN ZHENG: Neither the dances on the bench, nor the ‘betrayals’ from behind, nor the usual late adaptation to the elite. None of this has been able to stop the evolution of one of the most dangerous rackets in the world. Qinwen closes the year among the 15 best in the world and repeats among the winners of an award, after winning the prize for Newcomer of the Year in 2022. This year she debuted her record with two titles (Palermo and Zhengzhou), she reached her first quarterfinals of a Grand Slam final and won 12 of the last 15 matches of the season. Now with Pere Riba back at her side, 2024 promises more joy for the young Asian woman.
– Revelation of the Year – MIRRA ANDREEVA: The great sensation of the season makes a logical appearance in these categories. She is the new child prodigy of the circuit, someone capable of climbing more than 300 positions in the WTA rankings despite the limitations at the tournament level that she has to comply with due to… yes, of course, that she is only 16 years old . She went from reaching the final of the Junior Australian Open to sneaking into the second week of Wimbledon… but among the professionals, of course: we have rarely seen such a winning and sudden appearance on the circuit, at any level. She ends the year among the 50 best in the world and with a margin for improvement and a still impressive ceiling.
– Best Comeback of the Year – ELINA SVITOLINA: Her story not only excites us because of what she has achieved at the tennis level, but also because of everything that Elina has suffered in recent months. The outbreak of war in her country caused sadness and fear in the Ukrainian racket, while she received with extreme happiness Skai, her first girl with Gaël Monfils. The value of starting a family and fighting, through tennis, for her compatriots, was an indomitable force that has allowed Svitolina to stage a special comeback: quarterfinals at Roland Garros, semifinals at Wimbledon, return to the top-25 and moments of tennis that took us back to that ball return machine that was among the ten best in the world.
– Coach of the Year – TOMASZ WIKTOROWSKI: They say that the most difficult thing is not to get there, but to stay. It is a saying that Wiktorowski surely took into account when he sat next to Iga Swiatek and laid the foundations for what should be his season of confirmation at the top. In a climate as volatile as that of the women’s circuit, Tomasz stands as a calming figure, with a serious countenance, with always just the right words to calm the hurricane in which Iga becomes at his best and worst moments. A 100% Polish duo that monopolizes the highest level prizes, becoming the winningest tandem on the women’s circuit.
2023-12-11 16:41:13
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