After the tournament in Beijing, things that lasted for a long time finally turned out to be good: Simona Halep captured the top of the world ranking list.WTA boss Steve Simon is delighted about this.
Two observations on Simona Halep from 2017: the fourth round of the French Open, the Romanian team will play Carla Suarez Navarro, the two players will be playing at Court Philippe Chatrier very early on.One after the other.The Spaniard presents herself, grabs the bat, goes straight to work, knocks on the balls at full speed very soon.Simona Halep, on the other hand, warms up properly, with short step-up runs, stretch bands.This is how professionally the tennis scene observers know the new number one in the world.
A few months later in New York: Halep dropped out of the first round of the US Open against Maria Sharapova, but she still stays on the course for a few days, strolls around the National Tennis Center with her mentor Ion Tiriac.Extremely casual.
Steve Simon, the head of WTA, can therefore look forward to a sporty and cool industry leader who is at the same time exemplary in her sporting style.What the US-American certainly does not want to deny the four predecessors of Halep in 2017.
“Becoming number one in the WTA World Ranking shows incredible enthusiasm and dedication, and I would like to congratulate Simona on this achievement,”said the WTA boss,”Simona is an exemplary athlete, on and off the court, and with this outstanding season she deserves this fantastic moment in her career.”
The year of the Simona Halep was quite a year – and the big coup, the success in a Grand-Sam-Tournament, is still missing.The Romanian had the best chance to do so in Paris, where she could have won the final against Yelena Ostapenko.With a triumph in Roland Garros, it would have been the number one, and Halep missed further chances in Wimbledon and Cincinnati.
Now, however, Darren Cahill’s protégé has taken over the throne – and one possibility for an outstanding title remains Simona Halep: at the WTA finals in Singapore. In 2014, she was already in the finals once at the end of the season, in the current campaign everything seems to be possible in women’s tennis.