By technical definition, maybe.
In reality though, nobody thinks of the tournaments in those terms. Nobody says Roger Federer has 83 atp titles and 20 majors, for example.
It's just confusing to leave out a run to the 4th round of Wimby when talking about a young player's notable tourneys.
but that won't change the fact that she had no tour experience on WTA, before her 4R Wimbly, Emma played one single WTA match with a wildcard and lost. Anyway, the point I am trying to make here is people tend to talk like Emma is an established elite player on her comeback, but the truth is, she is just starting her pro career at WTA, she is not an elite player, not yet, and so far she has not proved she can be one. If we take away her fairytale USO run, the result she has posted in the last 3 years is just typical for a young player on the scene, a handful wins but a lot more losses, even her injury timeout is so common for new players who find themselves not ready for loaded schedule. If we take away the 2,000 points she earned from her USO title, the losses she had afterwards, some are lost to "higher" ranked players, it should come as no surprise, but she also had wins against some very high caliber players, which means she has the potential , but that's doesn't mean a lot, especially in tennis, there is no shortage of upcoming players who exhibited momentary brilliance then vanished.
All tennis players started from being a nobody on tour, had the worst draw, played on the worst court, faced the toughest crowd, defeat after defeat, tears after tears...those days are awful but they are crucial, that's how you learned from your losses and became better and stronger, and learned how to manage your emotions, your body and things that you can't control, the weather, the crowd, the calls, the condition... And some names will come up a lot and they will move up on the rankings, either slowly, steadily or fast, by fast I mean two seasons at least, those are the top elite players we are talking here, is Emma one of them? We actually don't know, she has not been tested yet, that's a big problem for her, she was a major champion also a complete newbie, but she is not playing on tour from the bottom and moving up like everyone else, she is sampling big events on WTA. I understand as a major champion, there might be some concern from her team on playing WTA 125 or 250, but honestly she needs to forget her USO title, that was 3 years ago, she needs to play from the lowest tournament and collect the smallest title like every other major champions had done in their career, they had those things before collecting their biggest title, Emma already has the biggest title but she cannot skip those things. If she keeps playing with wildcards, I am afraid the USO would be the only title she ever had, she already wasted 3 years and accomplished nothing, how many more years does she want to waste?
