WTA Insider Podcast

World No.1 Simona Halep reflects on her dramatic finish to win the inaugural Porsche Race to Singapore, beating out Garbiñe Muguruza by just 40 points to end the regular season atop the Porsche Race to Singapore leaderboard.

In a season that saw the Romanian stumble out of the gate due to injury before finding her form at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany. From there, Halep steadily climbed the Leaderboard in a season that saw adversity turn to triumph by season's end. 

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World No.3 Karolina Pliskova sits down for a casual and free-wheeling chat about her stellar 2017 season, which saw her rule the hard courts, make a surprise run to the French Open semifinals, and get comfortable in the role as one of the tour's marquee players.

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WTA commentators Pete Odgers and Mikey Perera join the podcast after the draw ceremony at the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global, to discuss their initial reactions to a draw that saw counter-punchers land in the Red Group and power players land in the White Group. 

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Caroline Garcia became the 1st player to ever win the Wuhan-Beijing double, backing up her title run at last week's Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open with an even more impressive win at the China Open, where she defeated two Top 5 players to win the biggest title of her career. 

With the win, the 23-year-old will make her Top 10 debut on Monday at No.9 and has put herself in pole position for the final qualifying spot for the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global. 

Garcia joined the podcast after her win over Simona Halep in the final to discuss just how she's been able to win 11 straight matches, what making her Top 10 debut means to her, and she recounts the conversation she happened to have with Konta in Tokyo three weeks ago.

Let's just say few expected Garcia to do what she's done over the last fortnight. 

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On the fourth time of asking, Simona Halep finally did it. 

The 26-year-old is set to become the 25th WTA World No.1 when the rankings are released on Monday, after a week in Beijing that saw her avenge two devasting 2017 losses, earning her first win over Maria Sharapova, who beat her in the first round at the US Open, and avenging her French Open defeat to Jelena Ostapenko to clinch the No.1 ranking. 

Halep sat down with Courtney Nguyen after her semifinal win at the China Open to reflect on a season that has seen the best of times and the worst of times for the hard-working Romanian. From her shocking temporary split with coach Darren Cahill after the Miami Open, her crushing loss to Ostapenko in Paris, to the lessons learned from her seventh-straight loss to Sharapova, Halep vowed to become a better player and person after every hard-learned lesson. 

And that's why she'll sit at No.1 on Monday. 

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Five months ago, Caroline Garcia couldn't even bend over to put her socks on, so bad was a back injury that derailed her season. On Saturday she won the biggest title captured by a French woman since Marion Bartoli won Wimbledon in 2013. That's quite the journey. 

Caroline Garcia joins the podcast after her resplendent week in Wuhan, where she capped off a 2 hour and 44 minute battle to edge past Ashleigh Barty to win the biggest title of her career at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open. It's been a difficult, humbling, and painful journey for the 23-year-old French talent, but a mature Garcia has finally arrived. 

Once called "the Liza Minelli of women's tennis", Rosie Casals was built to be a revolutionary, and as one of the WTA's "Original 9", revolutionize she did. Casals joins the WTA Insider podcast to reflect on the history of the tour, discuss the upcoming Battle of the Sexes movie (spoiler alert: she was not a fan of Howard Cosell), and issue a rallying cry for current players to reconnect with the past.

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Sloane Stephens joins the podcast to discuss her unbelievable comeback that reads like a Disney movie. But how will she deal with, once again, getting "Next-Big-Thing'd"?

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The Insider Team breaks down the All-American US Open final between 22-year-old Madison Keys and 24-year-old Sloane Stephens. Can Keys reign in her power? Or will Stephens' defensive resilience win the day? 

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"I've just made sure not to get too overwhelmed and just stay focused."

Sloane Stephens has a quick chat a day ahead of her first major final at the US Open, where she'll face off against her good friend Madison Keys. How does this compare to her breakout run to the 2013 Australian Open? Night and day. 

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