A Star Is Rising Among Women Tennis Players - part 2 This US Open can be a turning point in women tennis. Another player, Aryna Sabalenka, just 20 years old as Osaka, whom Naomi defeated in the fourth round, has shown the potential to be the biggest rival to Naomi. She was the only one to win a set against her. 73 at the end of 2017 she is now 20. Maybe the sun is rising again among women even if Osaka WTA ranking history doesn't look like the champion ones. Simona Halep, the number 1 in the WTA ranking today, has shown many times a mental weakness when it's time to win. She has a record of just 1 out of 4 wins in the Grand Slam finals. Caroline Wozniacki became number 1 when she was just 20 but she did it without a Grand Slam win that only this year, aged 28, she won, and thus far she didn't enjoyed the promise of her early years to be a consistent winner and a champion to remember. Angelique Kerber, three time Grand Slam champion and number 1 at the age of 28, to many times was defeated by poor opponents. She was number 1 in july 2017 and then 21 by the end of that year. This year she rose again and she's becoming number 3 in the ranking by tomorrow. Karolína Plíšková was like a one-hit wonder number 1 for just 8 weeks and she didn't won any Grand Slam. Garbiñe Muguruza, the young spaniard who won the French Open in 2016 and Wimbledon in 2017 becoming in the same year number 1 for just 4 weeks, didn't show the makings of a champion in the last year. Jeļena Ostapenko, young winner of French Open last year, and just 21 years old, seems already fading as when you were expecting her rise she fell from 7 to 10 and without very good results in the next months she will be probably 18 by the end of the year. Elina Svitolina, aged 24, untill today has not yet won any Grand Slam and even if she is a good player it's indeed an easy call to say she's not going to be a champion in the next years. Caroline Garcia, a 24 years old French player, number 4 by tomorrow has not yet a remarkable win but the China Open last year. It's hard to believe she's going to be a challenging one for any Grand Slam title due to her emotional fragily that undermine her possibilities.