TOUGH COMPETITIONIN WOMEN'S TENNIS Elvidio Miranda Of late Naomi Osaka of Japan is the most consistent among the women's tennis players having just won the Australian Open breezing past American Jennifer Brady 6-3, 6-4 to clinch her fourth Grand Slam title. She now has two US Open and two Australian Open titles making her in the last four years the most successful women's contender. However, the women's field is replete with a galaxy of Grand Slam winners during the last four years. Romanian Simona Halep, Spain's Garbine Muguruza, Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic have 2 Grand Slams to their name. Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, Sloanne Stephens of America, Ashleigh Barty of Australia, American Sofia Kenin, Canada's Bianca Andreescu and Poland's Iga Swiatek have recently won one Grand Slam each. The women's tennis circuit has not allowed any particular player to dominate the field, unlike in previous years when Serena Williams, winner of 23 Grand Slam titles, the most in the Open era and the likes of Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert and Steffi Graf who by and large made the Grand Slams their monopolies. With the emergence of bright new prospects, women tennis players are kept on their toes in recent years unlike in previous years.
