Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina or Coco Gauff? The Sky Sports activities tennis panel make their predictions forward of the WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The highest eight singles gamers will converge on the King Saud College Sports activities Enviornment from Saturday to battle for the celebrated season-ending championship – dwell on Sky Sports activities.
Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, Elena Rybakina and Coco Gauff will all be vying for glory, whereas the year-end world No 1 rating will even be up for grabs.
Purple Group: (1) Aryna Sabalenka, (4) Jasmine Paolini, (5) Elena Rybakina, (7) Zheng Qinwen
Orange Group: (2) Iga Swiatek, (3) Coco Gauff, (6) Jessica Pegula, (8) Barbora Krejcikova
The panel have spoken! Gigi Salmon, Laura Robson, Tim Henman and Jonathan Overend are available with their predictions and shock package deal forward of this 12 months’s extravaganza.
Gigi Salmon’s predictions
Winner: Sabalenka is the perfect participant on this planet proper now because the rankings present and he or she can be the perfect participant on this planet on onerous courts proper now – she is in nice type and can need to safe the year-end No 1 spot.
Gauff, nonetheless so younger and has made modifications in her teaching group after parting methods with Brad Gilbert, but it surely did not have an effect on her occurring to win Beijing.
Shock Bundle: Rybakina could possibly be a shock as a result of we have not see her on a match court docket since she misplaced within the second spherical of the US Open. She parted methods together with her long-time coach and has had well being points. It is a shock to see her in Riyadh – however on her day and together with her sport she will beat anybody!
Jonathan Overend’s predictions
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Iga Swiatek surprised commentators with this sensational winner in her conflict with Coco Gauff in Rome
Winner: The one factor I am keen to foretell is that everybody else can have gone for Aryna Sabalenka because the winner. So for that purpose, and that purpose alone, I am going for Iga Swiatek as champion.
Nonetheless, it will not be sufficient to reclaim No 1. Sabalenka will make the ultimate (which shall be one other basic) and finish the season on prime of the world. A lot as I dislike following the gang, I’ve tried to make a case for the opposite six to beat the massive two, and failed. Iga-Aryna it’s, then!
Shock Bundle: How shortly all of us overlook Rybakina was the shape participant from February to April and, based mostly on the primary half of the season, was a possible challenger for prime spot herself.
We’re advised accidents derailed her 12 months however element has been missing. Typically gamers have to take time away. Maybe she’s had her ‘low season’ and can return in Riyadh as if it is the start of 2025!
Tim Henman’s predictions
Winner: I am going for Sabalenka to beat Zheng Qinwen within the remaining. Sabalenka has received to No 1 and can keep there on the finish of the 12 months enjoying with freedom.
Shock Bundle: Zheng is fearless and does not care about who she is enjoying.
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Watch this unbelievable rally between Sabalenka and Zheng
Laura Robson’s predictions
Winner: Sabalenka will beat Gauff and finish the season as world No 1.
Shock Bundle: Zheng might trigger an upset or two.
Sky Sports activities’ Raz Mirza
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Highlights of Swiatek towards Pegula within the quarter-finals of the US Open
Winner: Iga Swiatek has taken break day since her defeat within the quarter-finals of the US Open, that means she shall be prepared for the ultimate occasion on the WTA calendar. The Pole shall be hungry to indicate why she continues to be the participant to beat, however you wonder if Aryna Sabalenka can have the final chortle. I am going for Swiatek to beat Sabalenka in one other blockbuster remaining.
Shock Bundle: Jessica Pegula has loved one of many seasons of her life, profitable in Berlin after which having fun with success in Toronto. The American reached finals in Cincinnati and the US Open however got here up empty-handed. That can damage! Nonetheless, the WTA Finals supplies a possibility for Pegula to upset the percentages and stroll away with the highest prize. She has the sport to do it as effectively.
What’s arising on Sky Sports activities Tennis?
- WTA Finals Riyadh – (November 2-9)
- Belgrade Open – ATP 250 (November 3-9)
- Moselle Open, Metz – ATP 250 (November 3-9)
- Nitto ATP Finals, Turin – (November 10-17)
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