23 Nov 2020 Who’s the Queen Bee? Not, who’s number one, but who is the alpha? The top dog? Who is the player to beat? Who is the de facto #1? For years that space has been occupied by Serena Williams. Even when she wasn’t officially number one, she was still the best; the player everyone wanted to face, and the player who was favoured to win every match she played. She was the standard bookies’ pick. Who is the alpha in 2020? Probably the number one for 2020 is Sophia Kenin, because she accumulated the most points in the calendar year. However, Ashleigh Barty is the ‘official’ #1 on the WTA computer with the weird covid rankings that count results from most of the last two years. But I’m not convinced either of them is the alpha, the quote unquote ‘best’ player around. Last year in 2019, the alpha was probably still Serena. When Bianca Andreescu won the US Open that year she beat Serena in the final, and it felt to me like Bianca was taking out the most for
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