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2024 Shot of the Year Showdown, Group N
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      Editor's note: For the past two weeks, wtatennis.com has run the 2024 Shot of the Year Showdown -- a bracket-style tournament in which you, the fans, can vote for your favorite points and ultimately the best of the season.

      The group stages have run daily from Nov. 25 to Dec. 8, consisting of 14 groups of eight points each, organized from the 51 Hologic WTA Tour tournaments of 2024. Voting will remain open in all groups until the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 9.

      Each group winner, plus two "lucky losers", will advance to two semifinals of eight points each on Dec. 10.

      The top two points from each semifinal will advance to the grand final on Dec. 12.

      We've selected 112 points from the past 12 months that brilliantly showcase the athleticism, power, touch and creativity in women's tennis. Now it's up to you to select the best of the best.

      WTA players provided such a surfeit of quality in 2024 that Group N, the last of the group stages, is a bonus round comprising eight extra points from across the season.

      Vote in Group A: Brisbane / Auckland / Adelaide / Hobart
      Vote in Group B: Hua Hin 1 / Linz / Cluj-Napoca / Austin / San Diego
      Vote in Group C: Abu Dhabi / Doha / Dubai
      Vote in Group D: Indian Wells / Miami
      Vote in Group E: Charleston / Bogota / Stuttgart / Rouen
      Vote in Group F: Madrid / Rome
      Vote in Group G: Nottingham / 's-Hertogenbosch / Berlin / Birmingham / Eastbourne / Bad Homburg
      Vote in Group H: Rabat / Strasbourg / Palermo / Budapest / Iasi / Prague
      Vote in Group I: Washington D.C. / Toronto / Cincinnati / Monterrey / Cleveland
      Vote in Group J: Monastir / Guadalajara / Merida
      Vote in Group K: Beijing / Wuhan
      Vote in Group L: Seoul / Hua Hin 2 / Ningbo / Osaka / Tokyo
      Vote in Group M: Guangzhou / Hong Kong / Jiujiang / WTA Finals Riyadh

      GROUP N: Bonus round

      A sensational rally between Emiliana Arango

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      in the first round of Miami which saw both players cover every inch of court and pull out every shot in the book before Arango put away a forehand winner.

      It's important to be your own cheerleader. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova

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      was so good that she had to take a moment to applaud herself.

      Sara Sorribes Tormo

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      Nadia Podoroska

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      Kamilla Rakhimova

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      with some brilliant point construction in the Washington second round, following up an angled counter-drop with a delicately placed backhand slice winner in the corner.

      The nine-deuce final game of Yuliia Starodubtseva

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      in Monastir was a marvel, full of terrific rallies and numerous winners from both players. This 23-stroke exchange was arguably the best, with Starodubtseva demonstrating some fine net play to end it.

      Clara Burel

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      Both Daria Kasatkina

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      refused to miss in this lung-buster from the Ningbo final -- and ultimately, it was Kasatkina who found something special to take it, chasing down an Andreeva drop shot to find an angled forehand winner on the run.