Estonian tennis player Anett Kontaveitnumber 19 in the WTA and seed number 16, fulfilled the predictions by winning the sixty-fourth final of the Australian Open by 6-2 and 6-3 to the Austrian player julia grabher, number 85 of the WTA. With this result, we will be able to continue seeing the winner of the match in the round of 32 of the Australian Open.
During the game, the Estonian player managed to break her rival’s serve 4 times, had 71% effectiveness on the first serve, committed a double fault and managed to win 66% of the points on serve. As for Grabher, she managed to break serve once, her effectiveness was 46%, she committed 4 double faults and scored 52% of the points on serve.
The Estonian player will face off in the round of 32 of the tournament with the winner of the match in which they will face the Egyptian tennis player Mayar Sherif and the polish Magda Linette.
the tournament of Melbourne (Australian Open Women Singles) takes place between January 8 and 28 on hard courts outdoors. During the competition, a total of 237 players face each other. The final phase is made up of 128 players among those who qualify directly, those who pass the previous phases of the championship and the invited players.
Tennis, a great sport
Tennis is undoubtedly a classic sport. Every year, four tournaments (the so-called ‘Grand Slams’) attract all the world’s attention: the season begins with the australian opencontinue with the clay track of Roland Garrostravels to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the United States with the US Open.
The rest of the year, the players continue to play all over the world, completing seasons on different surfaces: hard or fast track, clay either grass.
Tennis originated in Europe at the end of the 18th century and since 1926 it is a professional sport date the tour started. It was especially popular among the upper classes of English-speaking countries, but today it is a global sport. It’s divided in two categories: the men’s competition (ATP) and the women’s (WTA).
ATP
The ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals) is the association of professional tennis players that brings together players from all over the world in the men’s category.
The ATP tour holds several tournaments throughout the year: ATP Masters 1000 (if a player wins the tournament, he will get 1000 points to add to the ATP ranking), ATP 500 and ATP 250. Below these tournaments, in a lower step we would have the ATP Challenger Tour, where the future stars of world tennis compete. In addition, the association also takes care of the Grand Slams.
The fight to be the best in history is still latent in the men’s category. The Spanish Rafael Nadalthe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all the records and gather the greatest number of Grand Slams. The three players are popularly known as ‘big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.
These future tennis stars have entered stomping on the world tennis circuit, as in the case of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipasfrom Italian Matteo Berrettinithe German Alexander Zverev or the russians Medvedev Y Rublev.
Novak Djokovic currently holds the record for weeks at number 1 of the ATP rankings, closely followed by Roger Federer, the legendary American player Pete Sampras, Iván Lendl and Jimmy Connors.
WTA
The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) was created in 1973 by the famous former tennis player billie jean king. The Californian won 39 Grand Slam titles during her active period and is a benchmark and icon for the world of tennis.
Currently, there are many tennis players in the women’s category who are also fighting to stay at the top of the world tennis elite and surpass Stefanie Graff or Serena Williams. Players like the Polish Iga Świątek (Roland Garros champion in 2021), the Greek Maria Sakkari either Paula Badosa (the first Spanish winner of Indian Wells) are fighting to stay in the famous top 10 of the WTA ranking.
In the year 2022, the Australian tennis player Asleigh Barty announced his final retirement from tennis and left behind an impressive career with several Grand Slams behind him. Now is the chance for the other players to take over from him and become number 1.
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