A native of Moscow named the best player of January

Women’s tennis Association summed up the first month of 2020 and named the most proved themselves players. To this end, held a special ballot on the official WTA website.

the Winner in the nomination “the Best tennis player Jan” was a native of Moscow, Sofia Kenin, serving under the American flag. Last month, the 21-year-old American for the first time in his career won the tournament “Grand slam” – the Australian Open.

Her rivals for the nomination were Spanish Garbine Muguruza, Australian Ashleigh Barty and Czech Karolina Pliskova.

In the category “Breakthrough of the year” one of the nominees was the Russian Ekaterina Alexandrova, who won his first title in his career. However, the preference of respondents was given to the representative of Tunisia OCE of Gills, which have reached the quarterfinals of the Australian Open.