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2024 Shot of the Year Showdown, Group K
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    Editor's note: For the past two weeks, wtatennis.com has run the 2024 Shot of the Year Showdown -- a bracket-style tournament in which you, the fans, can vote for your favorite points and ultimately the best of the season.

    The group stages have run daily from Nov. 25 to Dec. 8, consisting of 14 groups of eight points each, organized from the 51 Hologic WTA Tour tournaments of 2024. Voting will remain open in all groups until the afternoon of Monday, Dec. 9.

    Each group winner, plus two "lucky losers", will advance to two semifinals of eight points each on Dec. 10.

    The top two points from each semifinal will advance to the grand final on Dec. 12.

    We've selected 112 points from the past 12 months that brilliantly showcase the athleticism, power, touch and creativity in women's tennis. Now it's up to you to select the best of the best.

    Group K comprises the autumn's two WTA 1000 events in China.

    Vote in Group A: Brisbane / Auckland / Adelaide / Hobart
    Vote in Group B: Hua Hin 1 / Linz / Cluj-Napoca / Austin / San Diego
    Vote in Group C: Abu Dhabi / Doha / Dubai
    Vote in Group D: Indian Wells / Miami
    Vote in Group E: Charleston / Bogota / Stuttgart / Rouen
    Vote in Group F: Madrid / Rome
    Vote in Group G: Nottingham / 's-Hertogenbosch / Berlin / Birmingham / Eastbourne / Bad Homburg
    Vote in Group H: Rabat / Strasbourg / Palermo / Budapest / Iasi / Prague
    Vote in Group I: Washington D.C. / Toronto / Cincinnati / Monterrey / Cleveland
    Vote in Group J: Monastir / Guadalajara / Merida
    Vote in Group L: Seoul / Hua Hin 2 / Ningbo / Osaka / Tokyo
    Vote in Group M: Guangzhou / Hong Kong / Jiujiang / WTA Finals Riyadh
    Vote in Group N: Bonus round

    GROUP K: Beijing / Wuhan

    Yuliia Starodubtseva

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    in this point in the Beijing first round. The Ukrainian held her ground, then managed to track down a Siegemund volley to nail a passing shot winner.

    Watching this Beijing first-round point, you could be forgiven for thinking that tennis was played widthways across the court, not lengthways. Mananchaya Sawangkaew

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    carve sharper and sharper angles as it goes on until Sawangkaew finds the winning counter-drop.

    Tweener alert! Caroline Dolehide

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    in the Beijing second round, weighting her tweener lob down the line perfectly to fall into the corner of Avanesyan's court.

    Zhang Shuai went from zero to hero in front of her home crowd in Beijing, snapping a 24-match losing streak and going all the way to the quarterfinals. Shots like this defensive angled drop shot on the run in the third round against Greet Minnen

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    Karolina Muchova

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    . Breathtaking gets helped the Czech turn defense into offense, and the clever wrong-footing sliced pass with which she snatched the rally from Sabalenka was exquisite.

    Sabalenka also played her part in one of the most enthralling matches of the year. As the third set began to heat up, she pulled out a miracle shot of her own, flicking an impossibly angled forehand squash shot pass past Muchova at net.

    Coco Gauff

    View Profile 's net skills were impressive enough in this point in the Beijing final. The speed with which the American hustled back to retrieve Karolina Muchova
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    's lob, and the athleticism with which she twisted to slam the forehand pass, were simply remarkable.

    Sixteen shots of the highest intensity as Zheng Qinwen fought for survival in the Wuhan final against Aryna Sabalenka

    View Profile . Her penultimate forehand down the line rightly sends the crowd into a frenzy, but the Chinese star still needed one final forehand to put the point to bed.