Wimbledon finalist Pliskova will rise to fifth in the WTA final

July 13 (Reuters) – Karolina Pliskova’s run to the Wimbledon final has elevated Czechs to 15th place on the leaderboard of the season-ending WTA final, the WTA Tour said.

The 29-year-old former world-class No. 1, who was ranked 20th in the Race to Shenzhen before the grass Grand Slam, scored 1,300 points and was the biggest mover of the week.

Australia’s world number one Ash Barty, who won Pliskova’s All England Club headquarters on Saturday to win her second Grand Slam tournament, confirmed her spot at the top of the ladder in 1853 points ahead of Belarus’s Aryna Sabalenka.

The season-ending WTA final, rivaled by eight of the world’s top single players and eight doubles teams, was canceled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and its fate for 2021 remains unclear.

The Asian tournament event has been deleted from the WTA calendar for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, and according to the governing body, discussions on the final were ongoing.

The prize bag for the annual exhibit was $ 14 million in 2019 when it was first played in Shenzhen after the end of a five-year period in Singapore.

Roland Garros winner Barbora Krejcikova lost the place and was third ahead of last year’s French Open champion Iga Swiatek, while Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, the first Arab to make it to the Wimbledon semi-finals, is hot in eighth place. Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

American teenager Coco Gauff is tenth.

Sudipto Ganguly reports in Mumbai; edited by Peter Rutherford

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