Dubai: Saturday Highlights
Highlights from final round action at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
Highlights from final round action at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.
October was packed with plenty of amazing shots – we narrowed it down to the five best.
In the end, it was Angelique Kerber, who played an incredble squash shot against perennial Shot Of The Month winner Agnieszka Radwanska in the semifinals of the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global. Undefeated en route to the championship match, the World No.1 used her uncanny ability to turn defense into offense, taking out the defending champion in straight sets.
Click here to watch all of October’s finalists.
Final Results for October’s WTA Shot Of The Month
1. Angelique Kerber (74%)
2. Agnieszka Radwanska (11%)
3. Dominika Cibulkova (6%)
3. Daria Gavrilova (6%)
5. Madison Keys (3%)
2016 WTA Shot of the Month Winners
January: Caroline Wozniacki
February: Agnieszka Radwanska
March: Agnieszka Radwanska
April: Monica Niculescu
May: Simona Halep
June: Agnieszka Radwanska
July: Simona Halep
August: Agnieszka Radwanska
September: Kirsten Flipkens
How it works:
Five shots are selected by wtatennis.com
Winner is then determined by a fan vote on wtatennis.com
Last summer, Johanna Konta embarked on a 16-match winning run, which began at a lowly ITF Circuit event in Granby, Canada, and ended in last 16 of the US Open.
This proved to be the catalyst for a rapid ascent up the tennis ladder, a maiden WTA title, in Stanford, and deep runs at the Australian Open, Beijing, Montréal, Eastbourne, Miami and Zhuhai securing Konta a year-end ranking inside the Top 10 – the first Briton to achieve the feat since Jo Durie in 1983.
It is a list of accomplishments that saw Konta deservedly pick up the WTA’s Most Improved Player Of The Year award. The 25-year-old, however, is no overnight success story.
“On paper I suppose it looks a lot different to how I experienced it, how my team experienced it; only because, although it may seem like a sudden rise, it was a lot of years of work put in. Years and years and years!” Konta told BT Sport’s David Law during her final event of the year, in Zhuhai. “So really I didn’t live through it as such a dramatic change.”
Watch the full interview above to hear Konta discuss her remarkable journey and what the future may hold in store.
An interview with Belinda Bencic before the start of the Qatar Total Open.
Zheng Saisai takes on Angelique Kerber in the second round of the Qatar Total Open.
An interview with Roberta Vinci after her win in the third round of the Qatar Total Open.
Carla Suárez Navarro takes on Timea Bacsinszky in the third round of the Qatar Total Open.
Jelena Ostapenko had the shot of the match in the third round at the Qatar Total Open.
Top seeded Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia got her title defense off to a strong start at the Engie Open de Limoges WTA 125K Series event, advancing to the second round in straight sets.
An interview with Jelena Ostapenko after her win in the quarterfinals of the Qatar Total Open.