WTA: Top-ten ranking is not a priority for Görges

Despite the strong season’s end sprint and the leap to 14th place in the tennis world rankings, Fed Cup player Julia Görges does not give priority to conquering the top ten:”Of course, when you’re on the 14th rank, you look in this direction. But how I develop is ultimately worth a lot more,”said Görges to the SID on the fringes of a sponsorship meeting on Thursday.

“The 29-year-old from Bad Oldesloe, who replaced the former world number one Angelique Kerber (Kiel) as Germany’s top player in October, continued:”If I develop properly, the victories and perhaps also the ranking position will be added. But being Germany’s number one is also “secondary”for Görges.

At the beginning of November, Görges had celebrated the greatest success of her career with her triumph in the final of the Elite Trophy in Zhuhai and had climbed to the top of the world rankings as never before. Two weeks earlier, she had won her fourth tournament victory of her career at the Moscow tournament.

Before the strong final spurt at the end of the season, Görges had lost the finals in Mallorca, Bucharest and Washington in 2017. In addition, it also suffered first-round defeats at the Grand Slam tournaments in Paris and Wimbledon.

“The negative moments helped me to experience the positive ones as well,”she said:”In the end the finals showed me: Hey, it’s going on! I’ve taken enough self-confidence with me. In the end, tenacity paid off.”