[서울=뉴시스] Reporter Kim Hee-jun = Arina Sabalenka (Belarus) confirmed her No. 1 ranking in the women’s professional tennis (WTA) tour year-end singles world rankings.

Sabalenka reached the semifinals of the WTA Finals singles in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The WTA Finals is the final match of the 2024 season of the WTA Tour and has the character of a king of kings. The top eight singles players and the top eight doubles groups with the best performance this season will participate.

They are divided into two groups and play in the group stage, and then the winner is determined in the semifinals.

Sabalenka could be confirmed as world number one at the end of the year if she wins all three matches in the group stage of this tournament or reaches the final.

He had 2 wins and 1 loss in the group stage.

Even if Sabalenka won two games in the group stage, if Iga Sibiontech (Poland) suffered one loss in the group stage, he would be confirmed as number one in the world at the end of the year.

However, Civil Tech recorded 2 wins and 1 loss in the group stage.

Sabalenka, who took the top spot at this year’s Australian Open and US Open, took the top spot in the year-end world rankings for the first time in her life.

In 2022 and 2023, Civil Tech ranked first in the year-end world rankings.

This year’s WTA Finals semifinals will be a match between Sabalenka and Coco Goff (3rd, USA) and Chung Chin-won (7th, China) and Barbora Krejcikova (13th, Czech Republic).

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