WTA 2011 Review: Petra Kvitova’s amazing season

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 at 11:31 am , filed under Tennis News by Jon Denton

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"WTA 2011 Review" Women’s Tennis Association season for 2011 has ended, with the last world rankings for the year has been released, as Dane, Caroline Wozniacki ends second consecutive No.1 in WAT.

The Top-10 players this season, Caroline Wozniacki, Petra Kvitova, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Li Na, Vera Zvonareva, Samantha Stosur, Agnieszka Radwanska, Marion Bartoli and Andrea Petkovic in representing nine different countries.

It is for the first time in 38 years, that nine of the WTA’s top 10 women have hailed from different countries. Last year eight different countries were represented within the Top-10 and it happened for the sixth time since 1975.

Holding the top spot in the WTA rankings is Caroline Wozniacki from Denmark, who has a 63-17 winning record for the year 2011. The Dane bagged WTA singles championship titles in the season to remain on top of the women’s ratings during the entire year, except for one week when she was dethroned by Kim Clijsters of Belgium. Wozniacki is the only Dane ranked within the top 600 and she is only the third Danish player to hold a WTA ranking.
She is followed by Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova, who claimed her first Grand Slam title of her career by winning the Wimbledon Championships this summer. The Czech holds a better winning ratio than the world number one, winning 60-13 matches in singles encounters and also bagged six WTA titles as well. She also won the season ending grand finale, the WTA Finals, to clinch her career best rankings of world number two.

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus captured the third spot in WTA rankings with an impressive winning ratio of 55-17. She claimed three WTA singles titles and two doubles championships in the running year to reach her best ranking of number three.

Former world number one, Maria Sharapova of Russia finally got back her vintage form to reach the number four spot. She won 43 out of her 57 singles encounters, winning two championships and being the finalist at Wimbledon as well.

Li Na of China bagged the Roland Garros title this year to become the first player from her country to lift a Grand Slam trophy. She has two championship titles in her pocket to hold the fifth spot.

At number six is the Australian veteran, Samantha Stosur, who won this year’s last Grand Slam event, the US Open. Vera Zvonareva of Russia follows her at number seven, being the second Russian in Top-10. Poland’s Agnieszka Radwanska is on number eight, while Marion Bartoli from France holds the ninth place in the WTA rankings. Andrea Petkovic of Germany concludes the Top-10 players in this season of WTA.

12 of the players in the top 100 are from Russia, which is the greeted number of representatives from any country in WTA. This year’s Fed Cup champions Czech Republic comes at number two with seven tennis stars in the top 100, followed by the United States, Germany and Italy with six players apiece.

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