Saturday, 28 September 2019

Repeat defenders: The last 25 successful WTA title defences

Aryna Sabalenka is bidding to become the first player to defend a Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open title today. Look back on the last 25 successful title defences on the WTA Tour.
Garbiñe Muguruza won her second Monterrey title in a row after defeating Victoria Azarenka in the 2019 final - the first successful title defence of her career (Abierto GNP Seguros)
Alison Van Uytvanck battled to a successful Budapest title defence in 2019, saving five match points against Ekaterina Alexandrova in the semifinals and defeating Marketa Vondrousova from a set down in the final (Peter Zador/Hungarian Tennis)
Julia Goerges defended a title for the first time in her career at Auckland 2019, after saving a match point against Eugenie Bouchard in the quarterfinals and defeating Bianca Andreescu in the final (Getty)
Petra Kvitova defeated Magdalena Rybarikova to capture the 2018 Birmingham title - the second successful title defence of her career (Getty)
Elina Svitolina&’;s third and most recent successful title defence was at Rome in 2018, where she triumphed over Simona Halep in the final (Getty)
Lesia Tsurenko became the third player to successfully defend an Acapulco title in 2018, lifting her fourth career trophy by beating Stefanie Voegele in the final (Getty)
Elina Svitolina is the only player to have successfully defended multiple titles since 2015, having won a second Dubai trophy in 2018 over Daria Kasatkina in the final (Getty)
Elise Mertens had won her maiden title at Hobart in 2017 as a qualifier and outsider - but returned in 2018 as the No.2 seed to become the tournament&’;s first ever two-time champion, beating Mihaela Buzarnescu in the final (Getty)
Caroline Wozniacki&’;s sixth and most recent successful title defence came at Tokyo in 2017 with a win over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the final (Getty)
Having won Nurnberg as a qualifier in 2016, Kiki Bertens returned as the top seed in 2017 to sweep to her only successful title defence to date without dropping a set, beating Barbora Krejcikova in the final (Getty)
The only successful title defence of Simona Halep&’;s career to date was at Madrid 2017, where she defeated Kristina Mladenovic in the final (Getty)
Svetlana Kuznetsova&’;s 17th career title was also her first successful defence at Moscow in 2016, where she defeated Daria Gavrilova to become the second player to win back-to-back Kremlin Cup titles following Anastasia Myskina in 2003-04 (Getty)
The most recent successful Grand Slam title defence was Serena Williams&’;s sixth Wimbledon championship in 2016 after a win over Angelique Kerber in the final - the 20th time Williams has defended a title in her career (Getty)
Angelique Kerber&’;s 2016 Stuttgart title, where she defeated Laura Siegemund in the final, is not only her sole successful title defence - but the only time Kerber was won any tournament more than once (Getty)
Petra Kvitova defended the New Haven title in 2015 after reaching a fourth consecutive final at the tournament, where she defeated Lucie Safarova in three sets (Getty)
Serena Williams is the only player to have won back-to-back Cincinnati titles since the 1970s, having defeated Simona Halep to claim the 2015 trophy (Getty)
Of Serena Williams&’;s record eight Miami titles, five have been successful defences, the latest coming in 2015 with a final defeat of Carla Suárez Navarro (Getty)
In 2014, Serena Williams joined Martina Navratilova and Monica Seles as the only players to win consecutive hat-tricks of WTA Finals titles, lifting the Singapore trophy over Simona Halep in the final (Getty)
Samantha Stosur&’;s only successful title defence to date came at Osaka in 2014 with a final defeat of Zarina Diyas (Japan Women&’;s Open)
Serena Williams joined Chris Evert as the only players in the Open Era to win consecutive hat-tricks of US Open titles after defeating Caroline Wozniacki in the 2014 final (Getty)
2014 saw Serena Williams successfully defend five titles, the most in any season of her career, including a victory over Sara Errani to win a third Rome trophy (Getty)
Maria Sharapova completed a hat-trick of Stuttgart titles in 2014 with a three-set win over Ana Ivanovic in the final (Getty)
In 2014, Serena Williams defeated Li Na to claim the second leg of her second hat-trick of Miami titles (Getty)
Li Na defeated Peng Shuai in the 2014 Shenzhen final for the only successful title defence of her career - and the only time she would win any title more than once (Getty)
Serena Williams is the only player to successfully defend a Brisbane title to date, having defeated Victoria Azarenka to win a second trophy in 2014 (Getty)
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