Off-season is traditionally time to announce the winner of our WTA year-end ranking prediction contest that my friend John Bolan has been running on Women’s Tennis Blog for eight years now. Last December we asked you to predict the 2018 year-ending Top 10 rankings and I’ll say right away that Emman Damian is the champion of this year’s contest. Congratulations, Emman! Now let’s give the word to John, as he will elaborate on the contest results.

It wasn’t an easy season.