Miami Open champion Sloane Stephens is rewarded by hitting a long-awaited milestone, Victoria Azarenka is back in the top 100 following a semifinal run, while Danielle Collins and Wang Yafan hit significant new highs.
La Campeona del Miami Open, ha recibido como gran recompensa su esperado regreso al top ten del ranking de la WTA, se movió tres casillas.
La semana pasada despues de 5 años, en el puesto 11 , como su mejor posición, la estadounidense de 25 años de edad, pro fin ingresa al top te.
Back in October 2013, Sloane Stephens was just one spot away from her Top 10 debut. Last week, after five years of holding a career high of No.11, a stunning title run at the Miami Open means that the 25-year-old has broken that barrier at last.
Sloane Stephens (+3, 12 to 9): Since her Australian Open semifinal breakthrough in 2013, Stephens’ ranking has yo-yoed with her form and health. In 2014, she sank out of the Top 30 – and would not return to the Top 20 until 2016, following a seven-month spell in which the American won her first four titles. But just a month after regaining that position, Stephens would be sidelined for 10 months for surgery on her right foot. By July last year, her ranking had fallen to No.957. Nine months after that low, she’s rebounded in style.
Petra Martic (+5, 40 to 35): Since returning from a 10-month hiatus to recuperate from a back injury last year, the Croat has become something of a big-stage specialist. Between 2009 and 2015, she progressed to the fourth round of a Slam just once, and totalled only five main draw wins at Indian Wells and Miami combined. Now, she has been to the second week of three of the past four majors, and has backed that up with a fourth-round showing in Indian Wells and a third-round run in Miami – pushing her up to a new career high.
Despise de recuperar de una lesion de espaldoa, Petra Martic, salta del 40 al 35.
Zarina Diyas (+8, 56 to 48): This time last year, the Kazakh had dropped to No.239 following eight months on the sidelines for a wrist injury. But in another successful comeback story, the past year has seen the former World No.31 lift her maiden WTA trophy in Tokyo last September – and last week in Miami, she defeated former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova en route to the fourth round. The result lifts the 24-year-old back into the Top 50 for the first time since October 2015.
Zarina Diyar, escalo 8 puesto, el año pasado alcanzo a estar en el puesto 239 despues de una delicada lesión de muñeca. su victoria ante Kuznetsova le permite llegar al top 50 por primera vez desde octubre del 2015.
Danielle Collins (+40, 93 to 53): A fortnight ago, the American debuted in the Top 100 in style, making the fourth round of Indian Wells as a wildcard. In Miami, Collins not only backed that up but made an even bigger splash. The University of Virginia graduate, who only began playing a full-time schedule in the summer of 2016 and was ranked No.237 this time last year, won seven matches to reach the semifinals as a qualifier, with her big-name scalps including Venus Williams, CoCo Vandeweghe and Monica Puig.
Danielle Collins, quizá tuvo el salto mas importante, 40 posiciones, despues de avanzar a la cuarta ronda de Indian Wells, como invitada, Collins llegaron en esa condición a Miami. la graduada de la Universidad de Virginia, estuvo en el puesto 237 el año pasado, y con sus 7 victorias para llegar a semifinales, se dio el lujo de sacar del torneo entre otras a Venus Williams, CoCo Vanderweghe y Monica Puig.
Monica Puig (+14, 82 to 68): The Puerto Rican, playing in the closest thing she has to a home tournament, rode a wave of crowd support to score her best run of the year so far in Miami. The Olympic gold medallist notched up three consecutive wins for just the third time since her Rio run, including a stunning second-round upset of Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki.
Monica Puigs tuvo 14 escalones de mejora, del 82 al 62. La medallista Olimpica 2014, alcanzo 3 victorias consecutivas por primera vez desde Rio, incluyendo su triunfo ante la Campeona del Australian Open, Caroline Wozniacki.
Alison Riske (+15, 104 to 89): In January, the American fell out of the Top 100 for the first time since July 2013 following a fallow second half of 2017, in which she lost eight of her last nine matches of the year. But she turned her fortunes round in Florida, coming through qualifying before upsetting No.8 seed Caroline Garcia to make the third round.
Alison Riske mejoro 15 posiciones, en enero alcanzo el top ten, por primera desde desde julio del 2013, con un 2017 terrible en el que perdió 8 de 9 partido en el año. pero regreso y brillo en Miami Open.
Victoria Azarenka (+94, 186 to 92): The former World No.1’s return from maternity leave had been delayed since Wimbledon due to personal issues – but in just her fourth tournament back, Azarenka overcame those to make a statement semifinal run. Dispatching Catherine Bellis, Madison Keys, Anastasija Sevastova, Agnieszka Radwanska and Karolina Pliskova consecutively, the Belarusian signalled that her top form is returning.
Pero quizá el ascenso ma sobresaliente fue el de Victoria Azarenka que paso del 186 al 92. la ex-numero uno del mundo regreso tras dar a luz y retirarse de Wimbledon pero enfermedad
Wang Yafan (+28, 115 to 97): Having raised her ranking to the verge of the Top 100 at the end of 2016, the Chinese player was struck by disaster in the form of an illness that kept her out of action for six months. But, having scored her second career WTA semifinal in Nanchang on her return last year, the 23-year-old backed it up this year with another semifinal in Taipei City – and, last week, her finest result outside Asia in the form of a fourth-round run in Miami. As a qualifier, Wang upset Indian Wells quarterfinalist Carla Suárez Navarro en route to the fourth round, where she stretched Angelique Kerber to the limit in a two-hour, 51-minute epic.
Wang becomes the 13th Chinese player to enter the Top 100, and first since Duan Yingying in August 2015. In order of entry, China’s 12 other former and current Top 100 representatives are Li Fang, Yi Jing-Qian, Zheng Jie, Sun Tiantian, Peng Shuai, Li Na, Yan Zi, Yuan Meng, Zhang Shuai, Zheng Saisai, Wang Qiang and Duan Yingying.
Anna Blinkova (+13, 132 to 119): The 19-year-old former Wimbledon girls’ finalist has spent March competing in ITF $60,000 events in China and France – and last week, she took home the title in Croissy-Beauborg, scoring three-set wins over Urszula Radwanska and Magdalena Frech on the way. The biggest tournament victory of Blinkova’s young career raises the Russian to just five spots off the career high she set last June.
Claire Liu (+28, 230 to 202): Last year’s Wimbledon girls’ champion scored her maiden WTA main draw win in Miami, defeating Roland Garros girls’ champion Whitney Osuigwe in the first round. The 17-year-old American leaps to a new career high, overtaking fellow 2000-born peers Bianca Andreescu and Destanee Aiava; only two players ranked ahead of Liu are younger than her, 16-year-old No.128 Amanda Anisimova and 15-year-old No.153 Marta Kostyuk.