Veteran pro dominated the Race with a 61-8 match record, seven Tour titles
and a blistering summer hardcourt season that included a 22-match win streak
LOS ANGELES, CA – Punctuating what has been a remarkable season, veteran
tennis star Lindsay Davenport is being honored Saturday during the WTA Tour
Championships as the winner of the season-long Porsche Race to the
Championships, which recognizes the player who performed the best during the
2004 season.
As the Race winner, Davenport, who finished the regular season with a
commanding 351-point lead over Amelie Mauresmo, will be presented with a
Porsche Cayenne S following her round-robin match against Serena Williams at
STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.
This year, Davenport, 28, claimed the Race for the third time in her career
with a unique blend of consistency and extraordinary performances. She posted
a Tour-best 61-8 match record and won a Tour-leading seven titles, including
the Toray Pan Pacific (Tokyo), the Bausch & Lomb Championships (Amelia Island),
the Bank of the West Classic (Stanford), the JPMorgan Chase Open (Los Angeles)
, Acura Classic (San Diego), the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s
Open (Cincinnati) and the Porsche Grand Prix (Filderstadt).
In 16 Tour events, she reached the semifinals or better 13 times, losing
earlier only at the Australian Open (quarterfinals), the Family Circle Cup
(quarterfinals) and the French Open (fourth round). She poured it on during
the summer, sweeping four straight tournament titles (Stanford, Los Angeles,
San Diego and Cincinnati) and winning 22 consecutive matches, the longest
streak by any player this season.
On October 18, she regained the world’s No. 1 ranking, the sixth time in her
12-year career that she had ascended to the pinnacle of women’s tennis. By
then, she had virtually clinched the Race title, leading by nearly 1,000
points and becoming the first qualifier for the season-ending WTA Tour
Championships presented by Porsche, which features the top eight singles
players and top four doubles teams in the final Race standings.
This week, Davenport was successfully able to hold off the second-ranked
Mauresmo in a battle for the year-end No. 1 ranking to finish the year at
No.1 for the third time in her career.
http://www.wtatour.com/newsroom/stories/NewsArticle_5736_rx.asp
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