2021 WTA Finals Guadalajara
Photos: The 2021 Akron WTA Finals singles qualifiers
Season highlights from the eight singles players who qualified for the 2021 Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara.
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Aryna Sabalenka will be the top seed at the Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara. This season, Sabalenka won two titles, hit her career-high ranking of World No.2 and made the final four at Wimbledon and the US Open.
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Barbora Krejcikova pulled off a 15-match winning streak this season, during which she won her first WTA singles title in Strasbourg — and then immediately backed it up with her first Grand Slam singles title at Roland Garros.
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Former World No.1 Karolina Pliskova will be making her fifth straight appearance at the WTA Finals. This year, the Czech reached her second Grand Slam final, at Wimbledon, as well as WTA 1000 finals in Rome and Montreal.
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This season, Maria Sakkari became the first Greek woman to crack the Top 10. She reached the semifinals at Roland Garros and the US Open en route to qualifying for the WTA Finals.
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Iga Swiatek won two titles in 2021 and reached at least the round of 16 at all four of this season's Grand Slam events. At age 20, she is the youngest Guadalajara qualifier by more than three years.
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Former World No.1 Garbiñe Muguruza will return to the WTA Finals for the first time since 2017. The Spaniard won titles in Dubai and Chicago this year.
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Paula Badosa picked up the first two WTA singles titles of her career — including the final WTA 1000 event of the season in Indian Wells — to grab a spot at the WTA Finals.
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