Latvian tennis player Anastasia Sevastova has been nominated for the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) award in the category of 'Comeback of the Year', the organization reports, writes LETA.
35-year-old Sevastova returned to the court this season after more than a year-long break due to health issues and maternity leave, rising to 209th place in the WTA rankings.
The experienced Latvian athlete, who has won four WTA tournaments in her career and reached 11th place in the world rankings, has won ten out of 22 tour matches this season. Among her victories, she managed to defeat Latvia's top player Alena Ostapenko (WTA 23) and, at that time, the world’s fourth-ranked player, American Jessica Pegula (WTA 6).
Sevastova has previously been nominated for the WTA Comeback of the Year award in 2015 and 2016.
This year, the award is also contested by Switzerland's Belinda Bencic (WTA 11), Czech Marketa Vondrousova (WTA 34), Romania's Sorana Cirstea (WTA 44), and Czech Barbora Krejcikova (WTA 65).
The WTA Player of the Year award is contested by world number one Aryna Sabalenka from Belarus, Poland's Iga Swiatek (WTA 2), Americans Coco Gauff (WTA 3), Amanda Anisimova (WTA 4), and Madison Keys (WTA 7), as well as Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina (WTA 5).
The nominees for the WTA Most Improved Player of the Year award include Anisimova, Denmark's Clara Tauson (WTA 12), Russians Mira Andreyeva (WTA 9) and Ekaterina Alexandrova (WTA 10), as well as Linda Noskova (WTA 13) from the Czech Republic.
