Talk:Aryna Sabalenka/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 10:05, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

Shall take a look at this article. MWright96 (talk) 10:05, 4 January 2019 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Early life and background

• Whereabouts is Belarus' National Tennis Academy?
  • Added that it's in Minsk (with a new source to show that). Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:29, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Junior career

• "or any of the other high-level Grade A and Grade 1 events." - or any other
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:31, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "she had a career-high ranking of just No. 225." - add the abbr template to No. for non-tennis readers
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:31, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

2012–16: Top 200, Fed Cup debut

• "Sabalenka began playing on the ITF Women's Circuit in 2012, even before she played on the ITF Junior Circuit." - competed
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "The first in Tianjin[11] boosted her" - put
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:32, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

2017: Fed Cup heroics, WTA 125K title, top 100

• "Despite some early season success in Fed Cup" - in the
  • Actually, it should be just "in Fed Cup." See for instance here, here or here. I know it looks weird. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:52, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "cracking the top 100 for the first time." - entering is more formal in this instance
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:52, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "the previous year's runner-up at the event" - change this text so it reads the 2016 runner-up,
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:52, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

2018: Newcomer of the Year, Premier 5 title, world No. 11

• "playing in tune-ups all three weeks before Wimbledon." - during the
  • Changed to "during each of the" Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "she was named the WTA Newcomer of the Year for her excellent first full year" - performance in her
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:53, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Early appearances

• Wikilink dead rubber for non-tennis readers
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:33, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

2017: Surprise runner-up in World Group debut

• "The quarterfinal tie against the Netherlands in February and the semifinal tie" - change the second mention of "tie" to game for the avoidance of the close reptition of the same words
  • Changed to "The ties in the quarterfinals... and the semifinals..." ("Game" means something else in tennis.) Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "with no career WTA match wins outside of Fed Cup." - outside of the
  • Same as above with "in the Fed Cup". Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "Despite finishing runner-up," - finishing as
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:57, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Playing style

• Wikilink serve to Serve (tennis) and groundstroke for non-tennis readers
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "She commented "This year [in 2017]" - a comma is missing inbetween "commented" and the beginning of the quote
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
• "However, she hopes that her grunting doesn't disturb her opponents." - better: However, she has expressed her hopes that her grunting has no distrurbance on her opponents.
  • Done. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:41, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Coaches

• "former Swedish professional tennis players Magnus Norman and also Magnus Tideman." - also in this section is text is redundant
  • Fixed. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:35, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

References

• Reference 32 needs to have the language field filled in as Romanian
  • Done. Specified the Russian ones as well. Sportsfan77777 (talk) 04:28, 6 January 2019 (UTC)

Nice work so far. On hold for the time being. MWright96 (talk) 19:14, 5 January 2019 (UTC)

@MWright96: Thanks for the review! I addressed everything above, and also made some updates for 2019.

• @Sportsfan77777: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 20:06, 6 January 2019 (UTC)