Bookends: 2024 WTA Wrap

This year in women’s tennis, the top tier took further steps to entrench themselves but the WTA retained its signature depth. Sabalenka, Swiatek, and surprise – Krejcikova – added majors to their hauls; Paolini and Zheng broke out in a big way; and Gauff managed to rewrite her season in the fall. We’ll take you through the highlights, the comebacks, the ‘remember whens,’ and moments both infuriating and hilarious. As usual, we also choose our WTA Award winners and do a self-assessment on our 2024 WTA breakout picks. Thanks for a great WTA season! 0:55 Launching our crowdfunding campaign! 3:00 The season’s major themes: Steadiness at the top (+ Babs!), the Zheng and Paolini breakthroughs, Coco’s two seasons, and many comebacks of varying success 12:20 Picture it: Australia, January 2024 17:20 Danielle makes a career-best run, Iga dominates clay 26:25 Babs snatches Wimbledon, Zheng ascendant 33:20 Aryna bookends her year at the US Open 38:30 Our choices for the 2024 WTA Awards 44:10 How did our 2024 breakout picks do? 47:55 Your most memorable moments: our listeners love Jasmine 50:55 Moments that pissed you off and moments that made you laugh: Babs and Qinwen keeping the girlies entertained   64:35 Farewells and farewells for now