Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep clinched her third consecutive WTA Fan Favourite win beating Pole Iga Swiatek in a very close pole, which came down to the wire.
Halep beat 23-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams in the Wimbledon final clinching her second Grand Slam title one year after her triumph at Roland Garros. The former world number 1 player ended 2019 with the longest active streak of weeks ranked inside the top 10. The Romanian player followed in the footsteps of Agnieszka Radwanska, who won the WTA Fan Favourite poll six times.
Swiatek lost to Halep in the fourth round at Roland Garros last June. The young Pole reached the final in Lugano and reached a career-high of world number 49.
Swiatek claimed the Shot of the Year Award with her dropshot during the Lugano tournament. She beat 2018 Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki in Toronto. Swiatek held off two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, 2018 US WTA Finals champion Elina Svitolina and 2019 US Open champion Bianca Andreescu. Simona Halep finished second in the Shot of the Year voting.
