Daria Kasatkina blasted the rule that allowed Barbora Krejcikova to make the WTA Finals without finishing in the top-8 in the Race.
Although the Czech finished 12th on the Race to Riyadh, she still made the season-ending tournament. If you wonder why, the world No. 13 won Wimbledon and also finished between 9-20.
As a result, Emma Navarro – who finished eighth in the Race and had around 700 points more than Krejcikova – didn’t make the Finals and declined to go to Riyadh as an alternate.
After Jessica Pegula withdrew from her last group-stage match, Kasatkina jumped in as an alternate and lost 1-6 0-6 to Iga Swiatek on Thursday.
“In my opinion, the WTA Race is the WTA Race. So it’s about how many points you earn during the year. If you win a Grand Slam, you already got what you achieved. You won the Grand Slam, points, money, glory, everything. Here it’s the WTA Race. So I think in this scenario, it has to go by points,” the Russian tennis star said afterward.
Kasatkina lost to Swiatek, while Krejcikova qualified
By beating the ninth-ranked Russian, the Pole improved to 2-1. But after the reigning Wimbledon champion defeated Coco Gauff, Swiatek was dumped out of Riyadh while the Czech and the…
