Vote Now: Doubles Team Of The Year
The finalists for the 2015 WTA Comeback Player Of The Year have been released, and we want to hear from you, the fans. The fan vote will count as one of the coveted media votes.
Have a look at the finalists and cast your vote before Sunday, December 6 at 11:59pm ET! The winner will be announced Tuesday, December 8.
2015 WTA Doubles Team of the Year Finalists
Martina Hingis & Sania Mirza: For Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza, 2015 could hardly have gone any better. After a flawless start to life as a team, in which they won their first three tournaments, Hingis and Mirza hit their first bump in the road during the clay court season, falling early in both Stuttgart and Madrid before being upset by Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova in the French Open quarterfinals. From then on, though, they were virtually untouchable, winning 34 of their next 37 matches to take home titles at Wimbledon, the US Open, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Beijing and the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.
Bethanie Mattek-Sands &Lucie Safarova: It has been quite the year for Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova on the doubles court. In January, their hastily arranged partnership resulted in a maiden Grand Slam title, at the Australian Open. The two continued this success on the clay, triumphing in Stuttgart and then Roland Garros, too, where they knocked out top seeds Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza en route to the title. While they struggled to scale these heights in the second half of the season, there was more silverware at one of the game’s showpiece events, this time in Toronto.
Casey Dellacqua & Yaroslava Shvedova: Casey Dellacqua and Yaroslava Shvedova may have been together for less than half of 2015, but they certainly made the most of this time together. On their first outing in unison, the Mutua Madrid Open, Dellacqua and Shvedova walked away with the title. One month later, they almost walked away with an even bigger prize at Roland Garros, only to come up just short in the final against Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Lucie Safarova. The summer hardcourt stretch brought a few more near misses, with finals at Cincinnati and the US Open before a freak injury to Dellcqua in Beijing brought their campaign to a premature end.
Ekaterina Makarova & Elena Vesnina: While Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina did not quite scale the heights of recent years, they remained regulars at the business end of showpiece events. The Russian duo began the campaign by reaching the quarterfinals at the Australian Open, before really hitting their stride when the tour headed stateside, finishing runners-up at both Indian Wells and Miami. Their conquerors on both occasions were Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza, who also produced a stunning comeback to deny them in the Wimbledon final. Injuries wreaked havoc with the half of the campaign, forcing Makrova and Vesnina to miss much of the summer hardcourt season as well as the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global.
WTA Doubles Team of the Year Winners
2014: Sara Errani / Roberta Vinci
2013: Sara Errani/Roberta Vinci
2012: Sara Errani/Roberta Vinci
2011: Kveta Peschke/Katarina Srebotnik
2010: Gisela Dulko/Flavia Pennetta
2009: Serena Williams/Venus Williams
2008: Cara Black/Liezel Huber
2007: Cara Black/Liezel Huber
2006: Lisa Raymond/Sam Stosur
2005: Lisa Raymond/Sam Stosur
Click here to see all the WTA Doubles Team of the Year Winners
How it works:
Finalists are selected by wtatennis.com
Winner is then determined by a media vote with a fan vote counting as one media vote