The finalists for the 2015 WTA Comeback Player Of The Year have been released, and we want to hear from you, the fans. The fan vote will count as one of the coveted media votes.

Have a look at the finalists and cast your vote before Sunday, December 6 at 11:59pm ET! The winner will be announced Tuesday, December 8.

2015 WTA Player Of The Year Finalists

Serena Williams: The wall-to-wall No.1 had another season to remember in 2015, winning the first three majors of the season to cap a second Serena Slam at Wimbledon. After winning the Australian Open and French Open titles, her win at the All England Club brought her major singles total to 21 – just one shy of matching Steffi Graf’s all-time record of 22. In between major glories, she won an eighth title at the Miami Open and a second consecutive Western & Southern Open crown – beating year-end World No.2 Simona Halep at both events. Williams finished the season with just three losses, five titles, and a 6-1 record over Top 10 players. The earliest ever to qualify for the BNP Paribas WTA Finals Singapore presented by SC Global, the American finished at World No.1 for the third straight year, and is in the hunt for a fourth straight WTA Player Of The Year award.

Garbiñe Muguruza: Muguruza began the year as one to watch among the cohort of WTA Rising Stars, but heads into 2016 as a Grand Slam contender. The Spaniard made good on her potential with an emphatic run to the finals of Wimbledon – upsetting WTA Finals champion Agnieszka Radwanska en route. She truly hit her stride, however, at the height of the Asian Swing, reaching back-to-back finals at the Dongfeng Motor Wuhan Open and China Open – winning the latter to capture the biggest title of her career. Her Singapore debut had a sensational start, going undefeated in round robin play and dropping just one set in three matches. Though she lost in the semifinals to rival Radwanska, Muguruza finishes the year ranked No.3 with few more barriers to break in seasons to come.

Flavia Pennetta: There’s going out with a bang, and then there’s Flavia Pennetta. Pennetta made her final season on the WTA tour unforgettable at this year’s US Open. A perennial quarterfinalist in Flushing, the Italian enjoyed a fairytale run to the final with wins over 2011 champion Samantha Stosur, two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova, and No.2 seed Halep to book an improbable championship marquee alongside childhood friend, Roberta Vinci. Swatting away one last forehand winner, the veteran had cemented her spot in history as the first Italian to take home the US Open title. Pennetta parlayed that momentum into a career-high ranking and WTA Finals debut, where she beat eventual champion Radwanska in straight sets during round robin play.

Agnieszka Radwanska: The former World No.2 similarly saved some of her best tennis for last in Singapore. Radwanska reached the semifinals of Wimbledon, but reached even higher heights in Asia, winning the Toray Pan Pacific Open and Tianjin Open titles to qualify for the WTA Finals. A slow starter in Singapore, she overcame dropping her opening two round robin matches to upset top-seeded Halep to qualify for the semifinals, where she took out Muguruza and Kvitova to capture her biggest-ever title and finish the year ranked inside the Top 5 for the third time in her career.

WTA Player Of The Year Winners

2014: Serena Williams
2013: Serena Williams
2012: Serena Williams 
2011: Petra Kvitova
2010: Kim Clijsters
2009: Serena Williams
2008: Serena Williams
2007: Justine Henin
2006: Amélie Mauresmo
2005: Kim Clijsters

Click here to see all the WTA Player of the Years Winners

Don’t forget to vote for the other 2015 WTA Awards

Rising Star of the Year
Most Improved Player of the Year
Comeback Player of the Year
Doubles Team of the Year

How it works:

Finalists are selected by wtatennis.com
Winner is then determined by a media vote with a fan vote counting as one media vote

This season saw a few Italian veterans getting ready to hang up the tennis racquet: Flavia Pennetta sensationally announced her retirement moments after winning the US Open and veteran Roberta Vinci stated that 2016 would likely be her last season. With so many longtime WTA stalwarts setting up to say goodbye, all eyes turned to Francesca Schiavone.

The former French Open winner has fallen outside of the Top 100 and this year her season is highlighted by quarterfinals appearances at Antwerp and Istanbul and a semifinal run at Limoges.

Would Schiavone also follow in her countrywomen’s footsteps and call it a day? The answer is: not likely.

“This decision, it’s something that you feel inside,” Schiavone said of retirement. “That feeling, it has not arrived yet for me. I want to keep going, as long as I feel good and comfortable, as much as I enjoy it.”

Schiavone draws motivation from many sources, and she looks for motivation to keep going from the same players she competes with week in and week out. At 35, Schiavone is among the oldest players in the Top 200, surpassed only Kimiko Date-Krumm and Venus Williams, who is six days older than Schiavone.

“It’s so nice to see Venus (who is 35), who has my same age, or [Roger] Federer or Serena [Williams] who are one year younger than me still enjoy it and still keep going to win,” she said. “This is my inspiration.”

Immediately in Schiavone’s sights is the chance to make history – if she enters the main draw of the upcoming Australian Open, she will tie the record for most consecutive appearances in a Grand Slam by a female tennis player. Japan’s Ai Sugiyama currently owns that record with 62 appearances, starting from the 1994 Wimbledon to the 2009 US Open.

“Yeah, it’s a big one,” Schiavone said. “I don’t know if I will do it, but I’m working hard to reach this goal.

“I’m thinking a lot about my next season. About my ranking, where I have to play, how I have to play. But that is my goal: to find a way to arrive to play Australian Open.”

With her eyes on the record books, Schiavone shows no signs of slowing down. And there’s no reason to, if her marathon match against Svetlana Kuznetsova at this year’s French Open is any indication of what she can still achieve. But beyond the records and the titles, there’s an ultimate goal that keeps Schiavone pushing forward:

“It can be fantastic and very emotional for me, to look over my shoulder and to say ‘Wow, I did such long career, a beautiful career.’

“This is the most important thing for me.”

– Elena Vesnina gets married: Want to know where all of Russian tennis was today? Looks like nearly everyone was at Vesnina’s nuptials in Russia. Congratulations, Elena! See how many current and former Russian greats you can spot:

– KooKoo for CoCo Vandeweghe: There’s still time to donate to the Womens Sport’s Foundation’s Travel and Training Fund.

-Sania Mirza hosting tennis greats in India: The Sania Mirza Tennis Academy will host an exhibition event that will feature Mirza, Martina Navratilova, and other Indian greats.

– Listen to Venus Williams: Yup.

Dreams do come true. All the time. Fight for what you want no matter the dissenters. #BeAnEleVen… https://t.co/od4JAv37x1

— Venus Williams (@Venuseswilliams) November 20, 2015

For tennis fans, the WTA’s week in Madrid is a time to handicap the field as it heads into the French Open. For WTA Rising Star Donna Vekic, the Mutua Madrid Open is an extra special spot on her schedule, as it puts her just 20 minutes from the home of Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, her favorite football team.

“It’s really lucky that we have a tournament in Madrid, so whenever I’m there I always try to go if I’m not playing,” Vekic told WTA Insider.

“My whole family has been fans since Davor Suker played for Real Madrid. There’s a picture of me as a three year old in his kit!”

Growing up watching Real Madrid matches, the talented teenager attended her first in the Spanish capital only a few years ago, but enjoyed the added bonus of getting to tour their home arena, the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu.

“Their facilities are really good and it was nice to see it from the inside. I guess we can say it’s a little bit bigger than most tennis stadiums!”

Coached by countrywoman and 1997 French Open champion Iva Majoli, Vekic soldiered through a sophomore season following a maiden WTA title in 2014, where she upset Australian Open runner-up Dominika Cibulkova to win in Kuala Lumpur. The Croat nonetheless enjoyed her share of highlights despite a few disappointments, taking out fellow WTA Rising Star Caroline Garcia en route to her best Grand Slam finish at the French Open and ending the season with a second Tashkent Open final – having reached her first in 2012 at just 16 years old.

Trying to shine in an individual sport, the now 19 year old admits to sometimes envying the team structure so familiar to her as a football fan.

“In tennis you’re always on your own on the court, whereas in football you have another 10 players with you. You win as a team and you lose as a team. It’s all about you in singles, which is great when you win, but when you lose you can’t say, ‘oh, it’s because someone else missed that shot!'”

With the 2015 season behind her, Vekic jumped at the chance to become an honorary member of Real Madrid as it takes on the Futbol Club Barcelona in a match-up known as El Clásico on November 21.

Joining a cadre of elite athletes and celebrities that includes Adrian Peterson, Klay Thompson, and Weston Peick, the WTA Rising Star contributed a short clip of herself cheering on her team wearing a t-shirt with #HalaMadrid emblazoned across the front.

“I watch most of their matches and I feel so honored to participate in something like this! It’s all so exciting!”

As one who plays a sport famous for its tranquility, Vekic advised those tuning in for El Clásico for the first time to expect a high-octane environment – on and off the field.

“It’s obviously a lot louder [than tennis matches]. The atmosphere is always amazing and I think the fans are a little bit crazier than in tennis, too.”

The Croat will likely be glued to the screen on Saturday for what she considered a must-watch event.

“If I’m not going be there, I will definitely be in front of the TV! It’s such a big sports event that you have to watch it – even if you maybe aren’t even a fan.

“But for me… Hala Madrid!!”

Check out Vekic’s appearance in the #HalaMadrid video below:

Common consensus used to be that tennis players peaked young and their careers were done well before hitting 30. Not so any longer.

Serena Williams’ recent attempts to re-write the history books have blown this theory out of the water. And this summer in New York, the American was just one of several thirtysomethings sticking their noses up to Father Time.

Having been crowned champion at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon, the World No.1’s quest for one of the few accomplishments to elude her – the Calendar Year Grand Slam – was the talk of the tennis world as it headed back stateside.

Interspersed between Wimbledon and the start of the North American hardcourt stretch was the chance for success at a couple of tennis’ less celebrated venues. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Lesia Tsurenko and Samantha Stosur were among those to grasp the opportunity for silverware, triumphing in Bucharest, Istanbul and Bad Gastein, respectively.

As usual, the US Open build-up began in Stanford, where Angelique Kerber took home the trophy after defusing big-serving Karolina Pliskova in an entertaining final. Over in Washington DC, Sloane Stephens finally delivered on her boundless potential, lifting her maiden WTA title – and the monkey from her shoulders – before the WTA headed across the border for an entertaining – and unpredictable – Rogers Cup, eventually won by the brightest of WTA Rising Stars, Belinda Bencic.

In Toronto, Williams slipped to a surprising semifinal loss to Bencic, but she dusted herself down from this setback, signing off ahead of her date with destiny in New York with victory over Simona Halep in the Cincinnati final.

Once at Flushing Meadows, the stars seemed to align for Williams as her principal rivals fell like dominos. When No.2 seed Halep lost to Flavia Pennetta in the first semifinal, Williams’ path to the title appeared clear.

However, her own final four foe, Roberta Vinci, had not read the script.

The Italian’s expectation levels going into their meeting were low – so much so that she had booked her flight home to coincide with the final. This move appeared a prescient one when she dropped a one-sided first set, but as the contest wore on belief started to course through her veins. After ending one marvelous exchange by poking away a volley midway through the final set, she cupped a hand to one ear, imploring the Flushing Meadows faithful to put their partisanship to one side. By the time she crossed the finishing line they had.

In the final, it was the 33-year-old Pennetta that seized the day, overcoming some early nerves to be crowned one of the most surprising – and popular – champions in US Open history.