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'Cancun, it's this way!' Jabeur, Muchova and Vondrousova celebrate WTA Finals qualification

The last three qualifiers for the WTA Finals had some fun on social media when the news was official.

ByBaseline Staff

Published Oct 08, 2023

Get in, ladies; we're going to Cancun. Ons Jabeur, Karolina Muchova and Marketa Vondrousova had some fun on social media after officially qualifying for the WTA Finals.

The trio officially clinched spots six through eight (Vondrousova, Muchova and Jabeur, in that order) at the season-ending event based on results of this week's China Open, and after they were officially confirmed as the final qualifiers Friday, Jabeur posted a video making light of that fact on her Instagram page.

Muchova, the Roland Garros finalist, and Vondrousova, the Wimbledon champion, will be making their respective debuts at the year-end event, while Jabeur has qualified for the second year in a row.

"Girls, let's go, it's this way," Jabeur joked, pointing off-screen with the Czechs in the background as they celebrated. "Cancun, it's this way!"

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But after reaching the semifinals and quarterfinals of the US Open, respectively, Muchova and Vondrousova's fall swings have been disrupted: Muchova hasn't played since New York with a continuing right wrist injury, while Vondrousova lost her opening match in Beijing to Anhelina Kalinina.

Wimbledon finalist Jabeur, meanwhile, played every week in her quest to reach the year-end championships again. Though she lost in the second round of the WTA 1000s in Guadalajara and Beijing, a first career hard-court title at the WTA 250 in Ningbo, China, helped Jabeur's cause to squeak into the final spot.

And after Guadalajara champion Maria Sakkari lost in the semifinals in Tokyo and the quarterfinals in Beijing, as well as a combination of other results for players like Daria Kasatkina, Veronika Kudermetova and Jelena Ostapenko, the trio were mathematically confirmed to be in.

“We started the season not knowing if I could play, and now I’m racing to play the WTA Finals,” Jabeur told WTA Insider in Beijing. "I think this season is weird, special—everything at the same time. I really try to enjoy it and appreciate it. I’m someone who believes in destiny a lot, so I believe it was meant to be like this. It will teach me a lot of things.”