{"id":21330,"date":"2019-10-27T06:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T10:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=21330"},"modified":"2020-03-25T19:26:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T23:26:23","slug":"2019-wta-finals-preview-and-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2019\/10\/27\/2019-wta-finals-preview-and-prediction\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 WTA Finals: Preview and Prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2019 WTA Finals are taking place in China from Sunday 27th October to Sunday 3rd November. The Chinese city Shenzhen is hosting the season-ending event for the first time, having previously taken place in Singapore from 2014-2018. The tournament is contested by the top eight women&#8217;s tennis players who have been drawn into two round-robin groups (the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red Group<\/span> &amp; the <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple Group<span style=\"color: #000000;\">), with the top two from each going to the knockout stage<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Who is in which group?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RED GROUP<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1. <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/2019\/10\/05\/wta-china-open-final-prediction-barty-osaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ashleigh Barty<\/a><\/span> (Australia)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 1 (1 win)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>3. Naomi Osaka (Japan)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong><em>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 2 (2 wins)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>6. Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 3 (2 wins, 1 loss)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 2 (1 win, 1 loss)<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 1 (1 bronze)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>7. Belinda Bencic (Switzerland)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Total Red Group Iconic Moments: 9<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>PURPLE GROUP<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2. Karolina Pliskova (Czech Republic)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 1 (1 loss)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>4. Bianca Andreescu (Canada)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong><em>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 1<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 1 (1 win)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>5. Simona Halep (Romania)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 6<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 5 (2 wins, 3 losses)<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 1 (1 loss)<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>8. Elina Svitolina (Ukraine)<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><em><strong>Career Overview &#8211; Total Iconic Moments: 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Slam Finals: 0<\/li>\n<li>Year-End Championship Finals: 1 (1 win)<\/li>\n<li>Olympic Medals: 0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong><em>Total Purple Group Iconic Moments: 9<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>What are my predictions?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><em>Group Stage<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">RED GROUP<\/span><\/strong>: 1st &#8211; Kvitova, 2nd &#8211; Bencic, 3rd &#8211; Osaka, 4th &#8211; Barty<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">PURPLE GROUP<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">: 1st &#8211; Andreescu, 2nd &#8211; Halep, 3rd &#8211; Pliskova, 4th &#8211; Svitolina<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Semi-Finals<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halep (<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple Group<\/span><\/strong> Runner-Up) d. Kvitova (<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red Group<\/span><\/strong> Winner)<\/li>\n<li>Andreescu (<strong><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple Group<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Winner) d. Bencic (<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red Group<\/span><\/strong> Runner-Up)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Final<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Halep d. Andreescu to win her first ever WTA Finals!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What are your predictions? 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The Chinese city Shenzhen is hosting the season-ending event for the first time, having previously taken place in Singapore from 2014-2018. The tournament is contested by the top eight women&#8217;s tennis players who have been drawn into two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2065,"featured_media":21390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9525,547,266,3553,394,147,476,101,74,15,297],"class_list":["post-21330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2019-wta-finals","tag-ashleigh-barty","tag-belinda-bencic","tag-bianca-andreescu","tag-elina-svitolina","tag-karolina-pliskova","tag-naomi-osaka","tag-petra-kvitova","tag-simona-halep","tag-wta","tag-wta-finals"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}