After reaching her career-high 2nd place in the WTA Rankings last year, Anett Kontaveit is dropping lower and lower every week in 2023.
The Estonian had a perfect end of the 2021 season, when she won titles in Moscow and Cluj, and even reached a final at the WTA Finals. She then started the 2022 season really well by reaching semifinals in Sydney and winning in St. Petersburg, before reaching another final in Doha.
Following her success, Kontaveit climbed to the world no. 2 spot in the WTA Rankings and she was in the Top 10 for almost one full year, as she entered it on October 31, 2022, and dropped out on October 23 next year.
The drop came after the 27-year-old couldn't defend her points at the WTA Finals, but after a disappointing end of the season, Kontaveit faced an even more significant challenge in 2023 as she needed to defend points from St. Petersburg and Doha. But that won't happen.
Kontaveit started the season with only two wins and four losses, and she was even forced to retire from her 2nd round match at the 2023 Abu Dhabi Open due to an injury.
The injury will also prevent her from competing in Doha and Dubai as she withdrew from those events, and that means that she won't add any points in the upcoming weeks.
However, she will drop quite a lot as she'll see her current 1909 points go down to 910 and she will surely leave the Top 50 in three weeks' time.
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