#头条创作挑战赛##WTA##网球#
Last night's last two WTA 500 grass matches before Wimbledon came to an end, meaning that the short grass season is about to kick off Wimbledon...
At the Bad Homburg Open, the 20-year-old Diana. Schneider defeated Donna 6:3/2:6/6:3. Wekic, won her second title of 2024... Schneider said after the match, "It's been a fantastic week for me, I played the best week of my life, so I hope I can keep it up like that."
Schneider won her first Tour singles title in Hua Hin in February, while Bad Homburg's victory was her first WTA 500 level win and made her the sixth and youngest player to win multiple singles titles on tour this year, ahead of world number one Swiatek with five titles, Rybakina and Ostapenko with three each, and Collins and Usain Bolt with two... Schneider, meanwhile, is the first player under the age of 21 to win the grass-court singles title since Sofia Kening five years ago, and before Vikic won the title in Nottingham in 2017.
Schneider entered the Bad Homburg Open with a career-high ranking of No.47 ahead of the tournament, a title that would move her up to No.30 in the WTA rankings on Monday, beating three-time Grand Slam champion Kerber, Australian Open semi-finalist Yastrymska, former world No. 2 Badosa and tournament No.3 seed Navarro in the past week... And at this time last year, she just barely entered the top 100 and ranked NO.98, and her progress was indeed rapid.
At the same time, World No. 14 Daria Kasatkina defeated No. 30 Leila Fernandez 6-3, 6-4 to claim her first title of the season, her seventh career title and first grass-court event.
Prior to that, Kasatkina had reached the finals of this season's WTA Tour in Charleston, Abu Dhabi and Adelaide, all of which ended in runners-up, and the victory gave her her first title since 2022... Prior to her victory over Fernandes in Eastbourne, she defeated Wang Xinyu, Yuan Yue, Raducanu and world No.7 Paulini.
After winning her first WTA grass title, Kasatkina became only the fifth player in the current WTA league top 20 to win the title on three different courts, the other four being Rybakina, Jabeur, Keys and Ostapenko... Kasatkina will arrive at Wimbledon with a 6-1 record on grass this season, and although she is not yet in the top 10, she is a super player to be reckoned with on grass.