Zhang Shuai is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23, achieved on 14 November 2016, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 7, reached on 31 January 2022. Zhang has won 25 singles titles: 20 on the ITF Circuit and three on the WTA Tour – at the Guangzhou International Women's Open in 2013 and 2017, and at the 2022 Lyon Open – and two on tournaments of the WTA 125K series. In doubles, she has won 19 titles, including the 2019 Australian Open and the 2021 US Open, both times partnering with Samantha Stosur.
Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 1 in singles twice between 2017 and 2019, for a total of 64 weeks, which ranks eleventh in the history of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings. Halep was the year-end No. 1 in 2017 and 2018. From 2014 through 2021, she was ranked in the top 10 for 373 consecutive weeks, the eighth-longest streak in WTA history. During this seven-year span, she finished each year ranked no lower than No. 4. She has won 23 WTA singles titles and has finished runner-up 18 times. Halep has won two Grand Slam singles titles: the 2018 French Open and the 2019 Wimbledon Championships.
Irina-Camelia Begu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She reached a career-high singles ranking of No. 22 in the world, in August 2016. Two years later, she reached her highest WTA doubles ranking, also No. 22. Begu has won four singles titles and nine doubles titles on the WTA Tour. She also has won one singles title on the WTA 125K series, as well as 12 singles and 19 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
Paula Ormaechea is an Argentine tennis player. She has won 15 singles and nine doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 21 October 2013, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 59.
Laura Natalie Siegemund is a German professional tennis player.
Lesia Viktorivna Tsurenko is a Ukrainian tennis player. Tsurenko has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles titles and eight doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. On 18 February 2019, she reached her best singles ranking of world No. 23. On 28 May 2018, she peaked at No. 115 in the doubles rankings.
Shelby Rogers is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 36 in singles and 40 in doubles, and has won six singles titles and one doubles title on the ITF Circuit. She won the girls' national championship at 17. Her best results as a professional came at the 2016 French Open and the 2020 US Open where she reached the quarterfinals.
Isabella Shinikova is a Bulgarian tennis player.
Taylor Townsend is an American professional tennis player. She reached her career-high WTA ranking of No. 61 in July 2018.
Amanda Anisimova is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA ranking of No. 21 in the world, and has been ranked in the top 100 since shortly after turning 17 years old. Anisimova has won two WTA Tour titles and reached three WTA finals in total.
Iga Natalia Świątek is a Polish professional tennis player. She is the youngest player in the top ten of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) rankings and has a career-high ranking of No. 2 in the world. Świątek was the champion at the 2020 French Open and is the first Pole to win a Grand Slam singles title. With her French Open title, she became the youngest singles champion at the tournament since Rafael Nadal in 2005 and the youngest women's singles champion at a major since Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon 2004.
Destanee Gabriella Aiava is an Australian professional tennis player.
Jeļena Ostapenko defeated Simona Halep in the final, 4–6, 6–4, 6–3 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2017 French Open. This was Ostapenko's first WTA Tour-level singles title. She became the first Latvian player, male or female, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament, the youngest woman to win the French Open since 1997 and the first woman since Barbara Jordan at the 1979 Australian Open to win a Grand Slam as her first tour-level singles title. Ostapenko was the first unseeded woman to win a Grand Slam since Kim Clijsters in the 2009 US Open. She was also the first unseeded woman to reach the French Open final since Mima Jaušovec in 1983, the first unseeded woman to win the French Open since Margaret Scriven in 1933, and as well as the lowest-ranked (47) since computer rankings began in 1975.
The 2018 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2018 tennis season. The 2018 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments, supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF); the WTA Premier tournaments ; the WTA International tournaments; the Fed Cup and the year-end championships. Also included in the 2018 calendar is the Hopman Cup, which is organized by the ITF and does not distribute ranking points.
Elena Andreyevna Rybakina is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She has a career-high ranking of world No. 12 by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and became the first Kazakhstani player in the top 15. She is the current Kazakhstani female No. 1 player in singles. Rybakina has reached eight finals on the WTA Tour, including three at the WTA 500 level, winning two titles.
Caroline Wozniacki defeated Simona Halep in the final, 7–6(7–2), 3–6, 6–4 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2018 Australian Open. Wozniacki was the first Danish player to win a Grand Slam singles title.
The 2019 WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2019 tennis season. The 2019 WTA Tour calendar was composed of the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation, the WTA Premier tournaments, the WTA International tournaments, the Fed Cup, and the year-end championships. The Hopman Cup, organized by the ITF, also is included but did not distribute ranking points.
Simona Waltert is a Swiss tennis player.
The 2021 Wimbledon Championships was a rescheduled Grand Slam tennis tournament that took place at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom. Novak Djokovic successfully defended the gentlemen's singles title to claim his record-equalling 20th major title, defeating Matteo Berrettini in the final. Simona Halep was the defending ladies' singles champion from 2019, but she withdrew from the competition due to a calf injury. The Ladies' Singles title was won by Ashleigh Barty, who defeated Karolína Plíšková in the final.
Iga Świątek defeated Naomi Osaka in the final, 6–4, 6–0 to win the women's singles title at the 2022 Miami Open. She became the fourth woman in history, after Steffi Graf, Kim Clijsters, and Victoria Azarenka, to complete the Sunshine Double in singles, having won Indian Wells two weeks earlier. It was Świątek's first Miami Open title, her third consecutive WTA 1000 title, and her fourth WTA 1000-level title overall. Świątek became the first woman in history to win the first three WTA 1000 titles of the year in succession, the first player since Serena Williams in 2013 to win three consecutive WTA 1000 titles, and extended her win streak to 17 matches. She lost no sets and just 26 games en route to the title, the fewest since Martina Hingis dropped 21 games in 2000.
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