#头条首发大赛##WTA#
The two WTA 500 grass court matches before Wimbledon – Bad Homburg and Eastbourne – have brought some changes to the rankings this week, and these changes may also affect Wimbledon, because there are people who come to Wimbledon with the confidence and confidence of the grass champions: Kasatkina and Schneider, who won the tournament last week.
Casakina's title run in Eastbourne ended a five-game losing streak in the final since 2022 and is a veritable grass champion considering her pedigree on grass, the 27-year-old was runners-up in Eastbourne last year, and she has always been good on grass and reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2018. She has risen from No.14 to No.12 in this week's WTA rankings, and you have to know how difficult it is to move forward in the top 20, and it will still be quite difficult for Kasatkina to break into the top 10, after all, she is still nearly 500 points away from No.10 Jabeur.
In contrast, the 20-year-old Schneider is less experienced on grass, but she seems to have a natural love for the feeling of playing on grass, having played her first professional tournament on grass at Wimbledon qualifiers last year, where she lost to British wild card Selector Brogan and Bad Homburg for her fourth professional grass tournament. Korber, Badosa and Donna Vekic, among others, came out on top, and her efficiency in returning the ball with her left hand on grass seemed to be indicative and impressive... Schneider's victory at Bad Homburg moved her up 17 spots from No.47 to a career-high No.30.
For the former world No. 1 Wozniacki who returned to the field after maternity leave, defeated Svitolina in the first round of Bad Homburg to end Svitolina's four-game winning streak on grass, which is also Wozniacki's first victory over the world's top 30 players this year, and finally reached the Bad Homburg 1/4 final, and today, after 10 months of maternity leave, the former world No. 1 returned to the top 100, rising 21 places from NO 112 to No.91.
Former world No. 2 Badosa also reached the quarter-finals of Bad Homburg for the first time in her career on grass, and the Spaniard sister was absent from a back injury in the second half of 2019 until the end of last year, and now she has risen a full 20 places from No.113 to No.93.
Bad Homburg was also an important milestone for Bulgarian sister 29-year-old Victoria Tomova, who reached the WTA 500 semi-finals for the first time after miraculously saving five match points in the quarter-finals against Blinkova, and before that she was in very online form, reaching the semi-finals of Rabat and the WTA 125 final in Valencia, and beating Alexandrova at Roland Garros, she entered the top 50 for the first time this week. The ranking rose 10 places to No.48.
In addition, Canada's Fernandes, who regularly beats our Golden Flower, reached her first career grass court final in Eastbourne, moving up five spots from No.30 to No.25...
Donna Vekic also rose 12 places from No.49 to No.37 because she reached the final of Bad Homburg, in fact, Vekic is also a grass court master, she has a total of 13 finals in her career, five of which have been played on grass...
Raducanu, who has recently recovered in the rankings, continued to rise in the rankings, rising from No.168 to No.135, the former US Open champion reached the quarterfinals in Eastbourne and saved a match point to defeat No.2 seed Pegula for the first time in her career.
The ranking of China's golden flowers has not changed much, but in general, it is on a downward trend. Zheng Qinwen is still NO.8, she has a point difference of less than 200 points with Paulini ranked No.7, and Sakkari, who is ahead of NO.9, also has an advantage of about 200 points, but I believe that this ranking will change after the first week of Wimbledon, in fact, it is the same for all players, that is, if you don't advance, you will retreat, Yuan Yue's ranking fell one place to No.39, she was surpassed by the British player Usain Bolt with an advantage of nearly 60 points, Wang Xinyu also dropped two places to No.42, Wang Xiyu dropped three places to No.54, Zhu Lin dropped one place to No.61, Wang Yafan continued to No.71, and Bai Zhuoxuan fell three places to No.95…
Wimbledon is about to start, and I hope that the ranking of the Chinese golden flowers after Wimbledon will make the fans happy!