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Teen Titans Sign Up For Tour Stardom
Agnieszka Radwanska was the sole teenager to make the cut for the recent Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha. But if this year's Tour results are any indication, that certainly will not be the case at the end of 2009.
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Top 20 Debuts Herald Great Things to Come
| Kod: | LONDON, England - If teen phenoms are nothing new in tennis, 2008 was nonetheless a vintage year for shooting stars on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Five under-20s finished the season in the Top 20; one of them, Agnieszka Radwanska, did even better, making her Top 10 debut in July. It is surely only a matter of time before fellow Europeans Caroline Wozniacki, Victoria Azarenka, Alizé Cornet and Dominika Cibulkova join her.
Fierce competition and growing depth means that, more and more, juniors emerge onto the senior Tour as remarkably well-rounded competitors. In this respect, Radwanska serves as Exhibit A. Having won the Wimbledon junior title in 2005 and junior Roland Garros in 2006 - the year for which she also was named Tour Newcomer of the Year - Radwanska's adult career started to gather serious momentum in 2007, when she won her first title at Stockholm and scored Top 10 wins over Martina Hingis, Maria Sharapova and Daniela Hantuchova.
This year she picked up where she left off, winning titles on the hardcourts of Pattaya City, the claycourts at Istanbul - after which she became the first Polish player to pass $1 million in prize money - and Eastbourne's lawns. Radwanska also applied her crafty, circumspect style to impressive effect in the majors, reaching her first Grand Slam quarterfinals, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and reaching the fourth round in Melbourne and Paris. Her results through the year were enough to see the 19-year-old qualify as the first alternate at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha, where she was called upon to play Svetlana Kuznetsova in place of the injured Serena Williams, and duly dispatched the higher-ranked Russian in straight sets.
If Radwanska's 2008 rise from No.26 to No.10 was impressive, 18-year-old Wozniacki is hot on her heels. Indeed, among this group of high-flying youngsters the 2006 junior Wimbledon champion made the greatest leap across the course of the year, rising from No.60 to No.12 thanks partly to three quick-fire tournament wins, at Stockholm, New Haven and the Japan Open. On her way to the final at Luxembourg in October, the Dane in fact tallied the 100th win of her career.
And all of this was achieved in the face of a tough run of draws: in eight of the 20 tournaments she didn't win, Wozniacki fell to a Top 10 player. Power and determination saw her beat Top 10 stars on four occasions, with her defeat of then world No.2 Kuznetsova at Eastbourne ranking as the biggest upset, on paper at least.
While Radwanska and Wozniacki burnished their growing fame with three titles apiece in 2008, Azarenka, up from No.30 to No.15, is still chasing her maiden win. But the 2005 junior Australian and US Open champion came close, with runner-up finishes at Gold Coast and Prague, falling to Li Na and Vera Zvonareva. While both occasions might be considered lost opportunities, a first Tier I semifinal at Berlin and a second at Montréal suggest the 19-year-old's explosive playing style will soon bear fruit.
France's Cornet plays the game in a very different way, and so far her graceful approach has held up best on clay. Like Wozniacki, the 18-year-old won her first Tour title in July, at Budapest, but she really grabbed headlines during the main claycourt season by reaching the semis at Amelia Island and Charleston and scoring two Top 10 wins to make her first Tier I final at Rome. Under the glare of expectation she also reached the last 32 at Roland Garros, having captured the junior title there 12 months earlier. Translating such results to other surfaces will be key to her progress, but the signs are promising, with a semifinal run at New Haven and quarterfinal finish at Linz – both of hardcourts - helping lift her ranking from No.55 in January to No.16 at season’s end.
Although she is the lowest-ranked of the teens in the Top 20, diminutive Cibulkova certainly packed a punch in 2008, especially against the elite. Whereas Radwanska, Wozniacki, Azarenka and Cornet each scored a solitary Top 5 win, Cibulkova registered three, against Elena Dementieva, Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic. Like Azarenka she didn't lift a trophy, but she did reach finals at Amelia Island and Montréal. In the course of jumping from No.51 to No.19 in the rankings, she also edged Hantuchova as the No.1 Slovak at the end of the year, after the 25-year-old failed to recover her form after injury.
How each of these players fares in 2009 and beyond is anyone's guess, especially given the resurgent form of some of the Tour's more established campaigners, and wealth of new rivals coming right up behind them. But it may be instructive to look at the Tour match head-to-head records within this pool of peers. On this count, Radwanska and Azarenka rule supreme, with six wins and three losses each; Wozniacki is also in positive figures at 5-3, but Cornet is 2-3 and Cibulkova, despite her better record against top flight players, is 2-9. Such statistics could be a factor when they start facing each other for the sport's biggest prizes. Or not. |
WTA wychwala Radwańską i inne młode gwiazdy  . Nie wszystko zrozumiałem, bo mój angielski nie jest 'perfect', jakby komuś chciało się wszystko przełożyć na Polski - będę wdzięczny :].
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| Kod: | | where she was called upon to play Svetlana Kuznetsova in place of the injured Serena Williams, and duly dispatched the higher-ranked Russian in straight sets. |
Świetny artykuł- jak widać sukcesy Agi nie pozostały bez echa- aczkolwiek wkradł się mały błąd. Aga nie zastąpiła Sereny, tylko Anę. Ale to tylko tak gwoli ścisłości.
Ostatnio zmieniony przez amilka dnia Pon 10:00, 01 Gru 2008, w całości zmieniany 3 razy
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