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Previewing The 2017 WTA Season

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With the 2017 WTA season fast approaching, let’s take a look at some of the players who are likely to make the biggest impression and win the big prizes. Angelique Kerber The 2016 WTA season proved to be one of the most exciting for a number of years; and that was pretty much down to one player, Angelique Kerber, who took the game by storm by appearing in three out of four major finals and winning two of them. And yet, Angelique wasn’t a player who dominated the year by winning week in week out on the WTA tour but saved herself for the biggest tournaments; which is almost the domain of the experienced veteran, a player who peaks for the biggest tournaments in the world. This enabled Angelique to gain the number 1 ranking and become the oldest ever debutant number 1 at the age of 28.  Interestingly on the mens side, Andy Murray became the oldest debutant number 1 since John Newcombe in the early 1970s, and it is fair to say both Murray and Angelique play a similar gam...