Find out the list of the nominees at the WTA Players Awards 2022
The WTA will once more honour the best players of the 2022 season with its WTA Player Awards.
The list of nominees for the annual WTA Player Awards 2022, which will be held in three weeks, includes Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur, and Serena Williams in a variety of categories. The top performances of the year will be honoured with end-of-season awards, which will be decided by representatives of the international tennis media.
WTA Awards 2022 Player And Coach Of The Year Nominees List 2022
Five categories will receive awards: Comeback Player of the Year, Most Improved Player of the Year, Newcomer of the Year, and Doubles Team of the Year.
Iga Swiatek leads for the WTA Player of the Year 2022
World No. 1 Swiatek of Poland is a heavy favourite for the prestigious WTA Player of the Year award as she has been dominant in the year 2022 having won 2 Grand Slams among the eight titles.
The Polish finished the year as the WTA World No. 1 for the first time in her career after a season marked by the wins of her second and third Grand Slam tournaments, at Roland Garros and the US Open.
Swiatek became the first player to finish a season with more over 10,000 ranking points since Serena Williams in 2015 by winning six further titles, including four at WTA 1000 tournaments in Doha, Indian Wells, Miami, and Rome. A 37-match victory streak between February and June was the longest WTA stretch since 1990. She finished the season with 67 match victories, which is the highest since Serena Williams in 2013.
Ons Jabeur follows Swiatek in top two
Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, who made history by coming in second place at Wimbledon and the US Open, will compete in the same category at the WTA Player Awards. In 2022, the 28-year-old made it to two Grand Slam finals while winning two WTA titles.
Jabeur was the first Arab or North African woman to make it to a major semifinal at Wimbledon. She improved on it by making it to the championship match, but she ultimately fell short to Elena Rybakina. The Tunisian also advanced to the US Open final but lost to Witek, denying her a second chance to win her maiden Grand Slam championship.
One of the other prominent names in this group is Caroline Garcia, who had a career-best season and won four titles, including the WTA Finals.
The other three contenders for the WTA Player of the Year title are Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, and Elena Rybakina. When Rybakina won the Wimbledon championship, she became the first Kazakh to win a Major. Pegula won the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open and advanced to the quarterfinals of three major tournaments, while Gauff came in second in the French Open.
The WTA Comeback Player of the Year nominees include Tatjana Maria, Donna Vekic, and Daria Saville in addition to Serena Williams, who tops the list. At Eastbourne, where she competed in doubles and reached the semifinals with Jabeur, the 23-time Grand Slam champion made her comeback after almost a year. Later, the American lost at Wimbledon in the opening round. Serena continued her impressive career by making it to the third round of the US Open before calling it quits.
On the other hand, following a remarkable season for the Czech pair, Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova will want to add the WTA Doubles Team of the Year honour to their list of achievements. They later won prizes at three of the four Major tournaments namely the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open.
Full List Of The WTA Players Awards 2022 Nominees
WTA Player of the Year
Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Caroline Garcia, Elena Rybakina
WTA Comeback Player of the Year
Daria Saville, Tatjana Maria, Serena Williams, Donna Vekic
WTA Newcomer of the Year
Qinwen Zheng, Linda Fruhvirtova, Jule Niemeier, Mayar Sherif, Harriet Dart, Laura Pigossi
WTA Most Improved Player of the Year: Veronika Kudermetova, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Liudmila Samsonova, Ajla Tomljanovic
WTA Doubles Team of the Year
Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova, Veronika Kudermetova/Elise Mertens, Coco Gauff/Jessica Pegula, Gabriela Dabrowski/Giuliana Olmos, Lyudmyla Kichenok/Jelena Ostapenko
Coach of the Year: David Witt – Current player: Jessica Pegula, Tomasz Wiktorowski – Current Player: Iga Swiatek, Carlos Martinez – Current Player: Daria Kasatkina, Issam Jellali – Current Player: Ons Jabeur, Bertrand Perret – Current Player: Caroline Garcia, Corey Gauff and Diego Moyano – Current Player: Coco Gauff, Rafael Paciaroni – Current Player: Beatriz Haddad Maia, Tom Hill – Current Player: Maria Sakkari