WTA Year-Ending Championships 2004 Quiz

Answer: Svetlana Kuznetsova

Lindsay Davenport was the #1 seed, Amelie Mauresmo was #2, Anastasia Myskina was #3, Svetlana Kuznetsova was #4, Elena Dementieva was #5, Maria Sharapova was #6, Serena Williams was #7, and Vera Zvonareva was #8.

Answer: 4-6, 6-3, 6-4

Serena started this match very sloppy and was down a set and 3-0. She then won the next eight games in a row to take the thrid set and go up 2-0 in the thrid. Myskina then came back and won the following three games to make it 3-2 before Serena finished the match off.

Answer: 16

Out of 53 games played, Zvonareva won only 16. She lost to Kuznetsova 6-2, 6-4, she lost to Sharapova 6-4, 7-5, and she lost to Mauresmo 6-1, 6-0.

Answer: Nadia Petrova and Meghann Shaughnessy

After taking out the #2 seeds Kuznetsova/Likhovtseva 6-3, 6-2, in the semifinals, they took out Black/Stubb, the 2004 Wimbledon Champions, 7-5, 6-2, in the final. Black and Stubbs took out the #1 seeds and defending champions Ruano Pascual/Suarez 7-6, 6-4, in the semi-finals as well.

Answer: 3

Serena defeated Myskina 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, Dementieva 7-6, 7-6, in her round-robin matches and Mauresmo 4-6, 7-6, 6-4, in the semi-finals. She lost to Davenport 3-6, 7-5, 6-1, in her final round-robin match and Sharapova 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, in the finals.

Answer: 4-6, 6-2, 6-4

Serena was up a set and a break when Sharapova started blasting away. After Sharapova took the 2nd set, then Serena took an injury time-out. Serena had injured her stomach muscle, but she decided to continue to play. Serena couldn't serve well due to the injury, so she blasted her ground strokes at Sharapova to go up 4-0, but the injury was too hard to overcome, and Sharapova won the next six games to take the match.

Answer: Amelie Mauresmo

Mauresmo, who had never lost to any of these players, defeated Zvonareva 6-1, 6-0, Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-2, and Sharapova 7-5, 6-4. She was the only non-Russian player in the Black Group being from France.

Answer: 5

5 out of the 8 players were Russian. Myskina, Kuznetsova, Dementieva, Sharapova, and Zvonareva. Serena Williams and Davenport were from the USA and Mauresmo was from France. Every single match played at the championships had a Russian player in it, except for the Red Group match between Davenport and Serena Williams.

Answer: 7-2

After Mauresmo was up a set and a break, similar to the semi-final match these two had at Wimbledon 2004, Serena forced her way back into the match taking it in three sets, 4-6, 7-6, 6-4.

Answer: Lindsay Davenport

Davenport and Mauresmo were battling it out to be the year-ending #1 player, but when Mauresmo lost in the semi-finals to Serena Williams, Davenport clinched the ranking. This was the third time in Davenport's career that she ended the year #1. She also ended #1 in 1998 and 2001.