50 Most Popular Players Of 2015: 40-31
The stars of the WTA battle it out day after day and week after week for wins, titles and ranking points – but who’s getting the most clicks on wtatennis.com, the official website of the WTA? That’s what we’ll be finding out all week this week as we count down the Top 50 Most Popular Players Of 2015.
From marquee names to WTA Rising Stars and doubles specialists, the WTA has an all-star cast battling it out all season long, and they’re all on the countdown. Where’s your favorite player on the list?
Let’s continue the Top 50 Most Popular Players Of 2015 countdown today with No.40 to No.31!
40] Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
Kuznetsova, a two-time Grand Slam champion and former World No.2, revived her career in 2015 with a run to the Madrid final and her biggest title in more than five years on home soil in Moscow.
39] Irina-Camelia Begu (ROU)
Begu, Romania’s No.2 player behind Simona Halep, had the best year of her career in 2015, winning her second WTA title in Seoul and setting a career-high No.25. She’s No.39 on this week’s countdown.
38] Samantha Stosur (AUS)
The queen of Australian tennis for the better part of a decade, Stosur picked up a pair of WTA titles this year at Strasbourg and Bad Gastein and was the No.38-most clicked on player on wtatennis.com.
37] Johanna Konta (GBR)
Fast-rising Brit Konta had a phenomenal second half of 2015, highlighted by reaching the second week of the US Open and a stunner over Halep, and her fans couldn’t get enough of her – she’s No.37 here.
36] Caroline Garcia (FRA)
One of the leading WTA Rising Stars, Caroline Garcia was a double threat in 2015 – she had a slew of Top 10 wins on the singles court and the same on the doubles court alongside Katarina Srebotnik.
35] Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA)
Mattek-Sands had a career renaissance this year, going from No.177 to No.61 in singles and No.265 to No.3 in doubles – she picked up three Grand Slam titles, two in women’s doubles and one in mixed.
34] Sabine Lisicki (GER)
Deep runs at some of the biggest tournaments of the year – Indian Wells, Miami, the US Open – and setting the all-time aces record in a match meant Lisicki’s name was clicked on again and again…
33] Sloane Stephens (USA)
The American WTA Rising Star shook the tag of best player never to win a WTA title in a huge way in Washington DC – she lost 20 games in five straight blow-outs en route to victory in the US capital.
32] Daria Gavrilova (RUS)
Gavrilova took out some huge names in 2015 – Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic – and add to that big fan support from both her native Russia and her adopted home of Australia, she’s No.32 on this list.
31] Dominika Cibulkova (SVK)
The 2014 Australian Open finalist was out for months after foot surgery but came back like she hadn’t missed a beat, and she’s seven spots higher on this list than she is on the WTA Rankings, No.38.
Come to wtatennis.com tomorrow for No.30 to No.21 on the Top 50 Most Popular Players Of 2015!