Czech and Slavic tennis players are on the top

[Jaga]

It used to be that mainly Americans, Australians, a Swede or German and French won big tennis games, now there is more and more Eastern European players, Djokovic from Serbia is a national hero, there is Medvedev.
Among women the world tennis is DOMINATED by women: Swiatek from Poland, Sabalenka from Belarus and Rybakina - a Russian from Kazakhstan. Additionally Marketa Vondrousova won the finals and she was outside the main rank. She is the 4th woman tennis player from Chech republic to get to the finals. Remember famous star Martina Navratilova? She was among the audience. Non-slavic women like Jabeur from Tunisia became a rarity.

www.wtatennis.com/rankings/singles
Rank Player Region Age Tournaments...
1 ‑ Iga Swiatek Iga Swiatek. POL. Iga Swiatek POL 22 18
2 ‑ Aryna Sabalenka Aryna Sabalenka. BLR. Aryna Sabalenka BLR 25 17
3 ‑ Elena Rybakina Elena Rybakina. KAZ. Elena Rybakina KAZ 24 20

[pieter]

Jaga,

I love the fact that the Polish tennis player Iga Swiatek is number 1.

Earlier match


Of course I remember the famous Czech tennis player Martina Navratilova.




Martina Navratilova in 1980


Martina Navratilova and Betty Stöve during a match in 1980

Pieter

[pieter]

[Jaga]

Pieter, Slavic players have last names difficult to pronounce for people who don't know Slavic languages. So there is a good way for the rest of the world to learn beauty of Slavic words I am happy for Swiatek that she continues to be number 1. She does not do well with grass unfortunately.