Story highlights Muguruza, Halep the top two at WTA Finals Three players making debuts at year-end championships Venus Williams, Caroline Wozniacki return Last year’s winner Dominika Cibulkova didn’t qualify CNN — An eventful season on the women’s tennis tour? You could say that. Serena Williams won the Australian Open while […]
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CNN — Caroline Garcia capped off a remarkable six-month period in her tennis career as she won the WTA Finals with a 7-6 6-4 victory against Aryna Sabalenka in Fort Worth, Texas. Garcia was outside the top 70 in the world rankings as recently as June, but since then has […]
The victory in Guadalajara, Mexico, was the 10th WTA title of Muguruza’s career and her third of the year. Having collected grand slam titles at Wimbledon and the French Open in 2016 and 2017, Muguruza — who rises to No. 3 in the world off the back of the victory […]
Sakkari edged past Russia’s Anna Kalinskaya in the second round on Thursday, taking the first set 6-2 before Kalinskaya retired in the second set which Sakkari was leading 1-0. Sakkari, who will face Simona Halep in the last eight, continues a breakthrough season where she finished runner-up at the WTA […]
(Reuters) – Ash Barty dismissed suggestions that she had unfairly held on to the top ranking while opting not to compete on the WTA Tour for most of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the pandemic preventing many from competing on the tour since March 2020, the WTA tweaked […]
The former world No. 1 said Friday that her final tournament will be the Australian Open next month. It’s the site where she won her lone grand slam singles title, which came against then-top-ranked Simona Halep in 2018. Known for her defense, Wozniacki also reached the US Open final in […]
At the end of her speech after a seventh dismantling of seven, Iga Swiatek returned to the mic with one final thought: “Maybe it just had to be like that,” she said, laughing. “Another underdog is gonna win a grand slam. In women’s tennis it’s so open right now that […]
If Kristy Pigeon’s father had had his way, she certainly would not have been a tennis player. She would have spent her youth as a cheerleader with ample angora sweatshirts and then in college her priority would have been the pursuit of her future husband, of her future breadwinner. “That’s […]