MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Spanish tennis player Paula Badosa, brand new champion of the Indian Wells tournament, will play the WTA Finals in Guadalajara (Mexico), which will bring together the eight best players in the world from 2021 from November 10 to 17, and joins Garbiñe Muguruza as a Spanish representative at the appointment.
The loss of the Tunisian Ons Jabeur, one of his main rivals for the last tickets to the Mexican appointment, of the Courmayeur tournament (Italy) announced this Monday and the resignation of the world number one, the Australian Ashleigh Barty, to the rest of the season allow the Catalan to get her place in the great tournament of the season on the women’s circuit.
In this way, Badosa, thirteenth in the world and eighth with 3,112 points in the ranking of the best of the year -although seventh after Barty’s resignation-, is guaranteed one of the two places that were still up for grabs; Jabeur (3,020) and Estonian Anett Kontaveit (2,882), winner in Moscow, will compete for the other.
The Barcelona woman joins Garbiñe Muguruza as representative of the ‘Armada’ at the event, and Spanish women’s tennis will have two players at the event for the first time since 2000, when Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and Conchita Martínez achieved it.
In addition, the WTA Finals will also be played by Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, Czechs Karolina Pliskova and Barbora Krejcikova, Greek Maria Sakkari and Pole Iga Swiatek.