Hey everyone…For this week’s column, we reveal our 2021 Awards for the WTA. These are the candidates they furnished. We’ll do the XY chromosomes, the ATP, next week….
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WTA Player of the Year
Ashleigh Barty (AUS)
Barbora Kreju010díková (CZE)
Garbiñe Muguruza (ESP)
Naomi Osaka (JPN)
Emma Raducanu (GBR)
Aryna Sabalenka (BLR)
Iga u015awiu0105tek (POL)
• This is a two-player race. So much so that it’s borderline insulting that there are seven candidates here. There’s probably some edict whereby all major champions are on the ballot. (Hence you have Osaka, who has played five tour matches since June; and Raducanu, who we’ll hear from later, but spent most of the season outside the top 100.