Chinanews.com client, November 1st, Beijing time on the 1st, the International Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced that Estonia's Kontavit was shortlisted for the 2021 WTA year-end finals.
Kontavit became the last singles player confirmed to be shortlisted. So far, the top eight women's singles for the year-end finals have been confirmed.
With just winning the Cluj-Napoca station, Kontavit secured the final singles spot in the finals.
She has won 15 consecutive victories in indoor venues and has won a total of 26 in the past 28 games.
With Kontavit’s shortlist, all eight singles seats in the WTA year-end finals have been confirmed, including Sabalenka, Kregickova, Ka Pliskova, Sakari, Svatek, Mugu Ruza, Bardoza, Kontavit.
WTA Chairman and CEO Simon said: “The 2021 WTA year-end finals will be an exciting year-end event. Six players in the singles lineup are shortlisted for the first time and players from two countries make their debut. This highlights This is the international nature of the WTA Tour. The WTA has dedicated a splendid and complete season for fans this year, and the final game of Guadalajara is the perfect end of this wonderful season."
A few days ago, the doubles lineup for the WTA year-end finals has been determined.
Eight pairs of women's doubles will compete for Martina Navratilova's trophy: Kregickova/Sinjakova, Shuko Aoyama/Yina Chaihara, Shuwei Xie/Mertens, Merichar- Martinez/Scholes, Stosur/Zhang Shuai, Guarachi/Klautsk, Jurak/Klapec, Fitchman/Olmos.
The WTA year-end finals will be held in Guadalajara this season from November 10th to 17th.
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The top eight singles players and doubles teams will be shortlisted for the 2021 WTA year-end finals.
The WTA year-end finals adopt a group round-robin system. The singles champion will win the WTA year-end finals Billy Jane Gold trophy, and the doubles champion will win the Martina Navratilova trophy.
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