In this year’s race Simona Halep leads relaxed, she is already qualified for the WTA Finals in Singapore. Angelique Kerber follows behind.
Halep greets from the very top with 6,900 points, Kerber as the runner-up with 5,022 points is somewhat behind, but also looks positively into the late summer – and to the WTA finals in Singapore. From 21 to 28 October, the eight best players of the year will gather here to play the unofficial Women’s World Championship. Best of all: The winner of the race will start into the tournament with some more horsepower, because she will get a brand-new Porsche – for Halep it would be already the second after 2017.
If Angie Kerber does not add a third car to her collection (as a double winner at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart). The Wimbledon champion from Kiel has a relaxed lead over third-placed Petra Kvitova with 4,022 points – and can catch up with Halep in a US Open victory. And Kerber has already proven how to win the US Open in 2016.
Julia Görges can also look forward to her first individual appearance in Singapore. While this week’s official ranking of ninth place is higher than ever before, it is “only” eleventh in the Porsche Race to Singapore (2,403 points). Reason: Görges played an incredibly strong end last year, so she still has these points on her credit side in the official world rankings. However, a good performance at the US Open would mean another leap forward for this year’s Wimbledon semi-finalist, who are currently eighth, which would be crucial for Singapore, to around 400 points.
Following the WTA Finals in Singapore, the WTA Elite Trophy will be held in Zhuhai, China, from 29 October to 3 November, with twelve players: the top eleven players who did not qualify for Singapore, plus a wild card player. Last year Jule Görges qualified with a last-minute victory in Moscow – and crowned her strong year 2017 with the victory in Zhuhai!
The entire Porsche Race to Singapore