Just out of curiosity I had a look at the WTA rankings today to have a look at how many players with ‘ova’ as the last three letters of their surname were in the top 100. There were 19 – and that’s not even counting Barbora Zahlavova Strycova twice! That means almost one in every five players in the top 100 is an Ova!
4 – Maria Sharapova
6 – Petra Kvitova
15 - Dominika Cibulkova
16 – Svetlana Kuznetsova
18 – Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova
22 – Daniela Hantuchova
25 – Nadia Petrova
28 – Lucie Safarova
30 – Alisa Kleybanova
Nine inside top 30!
31 – Jarmila Gajdosova
42 – Ekaterina Makarova
44 – Klara Zakopalova
50 – Iveta Benesova
51 – Tsvetana Pironkova
67 – Anastasija Sevastova
69 – Magdalena Rybarikova
71 – Barbora Zahlavova Strycova
84 – Anastasiya Yakimova
97 – Anastasia Rodionova
Don’t even get me started on Navratilova and Kournikova.
