The one in the world rankings, Simona Halep will not participate in the WTA finals in Singapore next week. The reason for your refusal a continuing violation of back. The number one in the world she still remains.
Simona Halep is the WTA finals at the end of October (21. to 28. October), you can not play for the title. The Romanian was still full of hope in the city-state South of Malaysia travelled, informed on Thursday but your waiver.
“This decision was a tough one,” said Halep, “I think it is the first Time that I had to cancel for such a large tournament. But it is better for my health.” She was not able to train in recent weeks, said Halep, “so I can’t play at the required Level.”
For Halep, which will conclude the tennis season, however, as the number one, the Dutchwoman Kiki Bertens, as the eighth Participant in the field, which had completed on Wednesday the Ukrainian Jelena Switolina and Karolina Pliskova from the Czech Republic.
Julia Görges on B-world Cup
The other five players at the season finals of the women’s Tour Angelique Kerber (Kiel), Naomi Osaka (Japan), Petra Kvitova (Czech Republic), defending champion Caroline Wozniacki (Denmark) and Sloane Stephens (USA).
Julia Görges, currently number nine in the world, had a Chance in the so-called Race to Singapore has long been no more. The 29-Year-old will instead be at the “B-Cup” in the Chinese Zhuhai (29. November to 5. December) to defend title. This was announced on Wednesday.
Kerber had reached the WTA finals in 2016, the final was the Slovakian Dominika Cibulkova beaten. Prior to that, she had participated in 2012 and 2013, in Istanbul and in 2015 in Singapore at the WTA finals.
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