Polina Kudermetova,, number 182 of the WTA, won the previous qualifying round of the Australian Open in one hour and sixteen minutes by 6-4 and 6-2 to the American player Asia Muhammad, number 165 of the WTA. With this victory, Kudermetova manages to add new points to her ranking to participate in the Australian Open.
During the match, Kudermetova managed to break her opponent’s serve 6 times, achieved 59% effectiveness on the first serve, committed 5 double faults and took 54% of the points on serve. As for the American, she managed to break her rival’s serve 3 times, her effectiveness was 73%, she made 3 double faults and achieved 45% of the points on serve.
the tournament of Melbourne (Australian Open Singles Fem.) has a pre-access phase in which the players with the lowest ranking have to obtain the highest possible points in order to qualify and participate in the official tournament. Specifically, at this stage of the competition, 128 players face each other. In addition, it takes place from January 8 to 28 on a hard court outdoors.
Tennis, a sport much loved by the public
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 Garrosthen moves to London with the celebration of Wimbledon and ends in the United States with the US Open.
The rest of the year, players also compete around 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, the date the tour was created. It was especially popular among the wealthy classes in 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 (where the winner of the tournament 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 fight. In addition, the ATP tennis is also in charge of the Grand Slams.
The fight to be the best in history does not stop in the male category. The Spanish Rafael Nadalthe Serbian Novak Djokovic and the swiss Roger Federer they compete to break all records and accumulate the greatest number of Grand Slams. The three players are commonly referred to as ‘big three‘ in front of the new generations or ‘Next Gen’.
These promising 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 ended an impressive career with several Grand Slams behind him. Now it is the turn of the other players to take over and become number 1.
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