Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted August 25, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted August 25, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Penpix of leading women’s US Open contenders HOW THE LEADING WOMEN’S CONTENDERS AND BEST AUSSIE HOPE SHAPE UP FOR THE US OPEN STARTING ON MONDAY: IGA SWIATEK (POL) Age: 23 Ranking: 1 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US31,576,991 Career titles: 22 Grand slam titles: 5 (French Open 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024; US Open 2022) US Open win-loss record: 16-4 Best US Open result: champion 2022 The game’s dominant force has won a tour-best five titles in 2024 and chalked up 50 victories before falling to Aryna Sabalenka last outing in the Cincinnati semi-finals. A deserved favourite to reign for a second time in New York. ARYNA SABALENKA (BLR) Age: 26 Ranking: 2 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $24,761,708 Career titles: 15 Grand slam titles: 2 (*********** Open 2023, 2024) US Open win-loss record: 21-6 Best US Open result: runner-up 2023 The two-time defending *********** Open champion could not have had a better build-up, winning the Cincinnati Open without dropping a set all week and rolling past Jessica Pegula in the final after taking down Swiatek in the semis. ELENA RYBAKINA (KAZ) Age: 25 Ranking: 3 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US14,909,990 Career titles: 8 Grand slam titles: 1 (Wimbledon 2022) US Open win-loss record: 4-5 Best US Open results: third round 2021, 2023 The big-hitting, power-serving Kazakh enters the Open underdone after playing only one match since the Wimbledon semi-finals and has yet to make her mark in New York, but is seeded to make the semi-finals. JASMINE PAOLINI (ITA) Age: 28 Ranking: 4 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US6,972,197 Career titles: 2 Grand slam titles: 0 US Open win-loss record: 1-4 Best US Open result: second round 2021 The Italian has been the revelation of the year, emerging from relative obscurity to reach back-to-back grand slam finals at Roland Garros and Wimbledon to send her ranking soaring. However, she’s won only one match in four visits to Flushing Meadows. COCO GAUFF (USA) Age: 20 Ranking: 5 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US15,189,772 Career titles: 7 Grand slam titles: 1 (US Open 2023) US Open win-loss record: 14-4 Best US Open result: champion 2023 The defending champion has been out of sorts of late, failing to make the quarter-finals at the past two slams and Paris Olympics. She also fell early in Toronto and Cincinnati. But the prodigy loves the big stage – and there’s none ******* than Arthur Ashe Stadium. JESSICA PEGULA (USA) Age: 30 Ranking: 7 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $14,305,123 Career titles: 6 Grand slam titles: 0 US Open win-loss record: 12-7 Best US Open result: quarter-finalist 2022 The ********* is the form hardcourt player, reaching back-to-back finals in Toronto, where she won, and Cincinnati, where Sabalenka snapped her winning streak at nine. Yet to break through at a major, but this could be her time. BEST OUTSIDER QINWEN ZHENG (CHN) Age: 21 Ranking: 9 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US4,700,297 Career titles: 3 Grand slam titles: 0 US Open win-loss record: 6-2 Best US Open result: quarter-finalist 2023 Inspired by Li Na, the bubbly ******** burst to prominence with a charge to the *********** Open final in January, before confirming herself as tennis’s next big thing with gold-medal glory on clay at Roland Garros. BEST AUSSIE HOPE AJLA TOMLJANOVIC Age: 31 Ranking: 119 Plays: right-handed (two-handed backhand) Career prize money: $US6,251,753 Career titles: 0 Grand slam titles: 0 US Open win-loss record: 11-9 Best US Open result: quarter-finalist 2022 The three-time grand slam quarter-finalist is playing on an injury-protected ranking, but proved with her run to the last eight two years ago, when she ended Serena Williams’ career, that she’s capble of going deep if the stars align. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Penpix #leading #womens #Open #contenders This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/108764-penpix-of-leading-women%E2%80%99s-us-open-contenders/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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