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WTA Tour: Garbiñe Muguruza to become the new world No. 1

By Maxwell Ogden

NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 01: Garbine Muguruza of Spain celebrates her third round match win over Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia on Day Five of the 2017 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 1, 2017 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 01: Garbine Muguruza of Spain celebrates her third round match win over Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia on Day Five of the 2017 US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on September 1, 2017 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Photo by Clive Brunskill/Getty Images) /
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As a result of the loss Karolina Pliskova suffered in the quarterfinals of the 2017 US Open, Garbiñe Muguruza will become the new world No. 1 on the WTA Tour.

23-year-old phenom Garbiñe Muguruza is experiencing the best year of her tennis career. She’s won her second career Grand Slam title, reached the quarterfinals at another Grand Slam event, and has steadily climbed the WTA Tour rankings.

Although Muguruza was unable to reach the quarterfinals at the 2017 US Open, she did enough to achieve yet another career accolade.

Muguruza has pieced together a season that’s firmly established her as the future face of the WTA Tour. Between success in the Grand Slam tournaments and victories at the Premier 5 events, the 23-year-old has been nothing short of brilliant.

As a result of Karolina Pliskova losing in the quarterfinals of the 2017 US Open, Muguruza’s rise to becoming the face of the WTA Tour was expedited in a historic way.

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This is the first time in Muguruza’s promising and already rewarding career that she’s become the world No. 1.

Muguruza won the Wimbledon crown, which matched the biggest victory of her career. She pairs that with the French Open title she won in 2016, and the Wimbledon final that she reached during her breakout campaign in 2015.

During the summer of 2017, Muguruza won the Western & Southern Open, reached the quarterfinals at the Rogers Cup, and made it to the fourth round at the US Open.

That success has culminated in Muguruza making the extraordinary climb to the perch of the world No. 1.

Muguruza has been closing in on this honor for quite some time, but the pressure is now on in a different way. She exorcised a number of demons in 2017, including her inability to make it beyond the second round of the US Open.

She will now have the daunting task of being the No. 1 player on the WTA Tour, however, which is a burden that many before her have crumbled beneath.

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Garbiñe Muguruza looks the part of the future face of the WTA Tour. She’ll now have an opportunity to prove that she’s already arrived.

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