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Early upsets abound in opening round in Dubai
For Amanda Anisimova and Jelena Ostapenko, the letdown was real in the United Arab Emirates.,After the two stormed through the Qatar TotalEnergies Open last week, with Anisimova beating Ostapenko in the final of the WTA 1000 event on Saturday, they were bounced Monday in the first round of the Dubai...
Spain's Paula Badosa takes 'home'-court win at opener in Dubai
No. 9 Paula Badosa of Spain held her "home" court on Sunday to win her opening match at the Dubai Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates.,Badosa posted a 6-3, 6-4 triumph over Lulu Sun of New Zealand, winning 87 percent of the points on her first serve. For Badosa, it was her first win in ...
Amanda Anisimova captures biggest win of career in Doha
Amanda Anisimova won her first WTA 1000-level title on Saturday, defeating Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia 6-4, 6-3 at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open.,It was the first final in Doha to have two players ranked outside the top 30 and capped a stellar week for both players.,Per OptaAce, Anisimova is the first...
Jelena Ostapenko ends Iga Swiatek's reign in Doha
Jelena Ostapenko improved to 5-0 against No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek with a 6-3, 6-1 semifinal rout Friday against the three-time defending Qatar TotalEnergies Open champion.,Ostapenko halted Swiatek's 15-match winning streak in Doha and advanced to her 17th WTA Tour final, her first at the WTA 1000 leve...
Iga Swiatek moves closer to rare four-peat at Doha
No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland is two wins away from her fourth straight Qatar TotalEnergies Open championship.,Swiatek extended her winning streak in Doha to 15 matches with a 6-2, 7-5 win over fifth-seeded Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in Thursday's quarterfinals.,In a rematch of last year's fina...
Iga Swiatek rallies to advance to quarterfinals at Doha
Second-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland needed three sets and 2½ hours to defeat Linda Noskova on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2025 in Doha. ,Swiatek rallied for 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 victory over the 20-year-old Czech, setting up a rematch against No. 5 Elena Ry...
Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka upset in second round in Doha
Top seed Aryna Sabalenka and No. 3 seed Coco Gauff were upset in the second round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open on Tuesday in Doha.,Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova came from behind to stun Sabalenka 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5), while Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine capitalized on 39 unforced errors to oust Gauff 6-...
Coco Gauff upset in second round in Doha
Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine capitalized on 39 unforced errors to oust No. 3 seed Coco Gauff 6-2, 7-5 in the second round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open on Tuesday.,The 22-year-old unseeded Kostyuk won 58 percent of the total points, broke Gauff's serve four times and benefited from seven double faults...
Three-time defending champ Iga Swiatek starts strong in Doha
Three-time defending champion Iga Swiatek of Poland rolled into the third round of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open with a 6-3, 6-2 win Monday against Maria Sakkari of Greece.,The second-seeded Swiatek, who had a bye in the first round of the WTA 1000 event in Doha, trailed 3-2 in the first set before s...
WTA roundup: Anastasia Potapova wins Transylvania final
Top seed Anastasia Potapova of Russia claimed the Transylvania Open title in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, defeating unseeded Italian Lucia Bronzetti 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 on Sunday for her third career WTA title., ,Ran...
WTA roundup: New mom Belinda Bencic wins Abu Dhabi title
Switzerland's Belinda Bencic won her first WTA title since returning from maternity leave, defeating American Ashlyn Krueger 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 in Saturday's final at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open.,In her fourth tour-level event since giving birth to her daughter Bella last April, the 27-year-old Bencic wo...
WTA roundup: Ashlyn Krueger, Belinda Bencic reach Abu Dhabi final
American Ashlyn Krueger will go for her second career WTA title at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open after she took down Czech opponent Linda Noskova 7-6 (2), 6-4 in the semifinals Friday.,The 20-year-old Kruger will face Switzerland's Belinda Bencic, who rallied to upset No. 1 seed Elena Rybakina of Kaza...
Bianca Andreescu out until clay season after appendectomy
Former U.S. Open tennis champion Bianca Andreescu is recovering after an emergency appendectomy and will be sidelined until the clay court season.,The 24-year-old Canadian was expected to make her season debut at Mexico's Merida Open, starting Feb. 24. She missed much of the 2023 and 2024 calendars ...
WTA roundup: Elena Rybakina overcomes Ons Jabeur in Abu Dhabi
No. 1 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan survived an upset bid from Tunisia's Ons Jabeur and prevailed 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (4) in the quarterfinals of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open on Thursday.,Jabeur saved two consecutive match points in the 12th game of the third set to force a tiebreaker. There, Jabeur ra...
WTA roundup: Linda Noskova upsets Paula Badosa in Abu Dhabi
Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic rolled to a 6-4, 6-1 victory over second-seeded Paula Badosa of Spain in the second round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open on Wednesday.,Noskova converted 6 of 9 break points while winning in 67 minutes against the Australian Open semifinalist. Noskova next faces Po...
Two-time Grand Slam winner Simona Halep retires
Former World No. 1 Simona Halep, who won two Grand Slams before a doping suspension, announced her retirement on Tuesday following a loss at the Transylvania Open in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.,Halep, 33, fell to Italy's Lucia Bronzetti 6-1, 6-1, in her first match of 2025, then informed the crowd in her ...
WTA roundup: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova cruises in Abu Dhabi
No. 6 seed Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova of Russia needed just 59 minutes to oust American Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-1 in the first round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open on Tuesday.,Pavlyuchenkova won an overwhelming 80 percent of her service points, including 23 of 25 on her first serve. He never faced break po...
WTA roundup: Veronika Kudermetova pulls upset in Abu Dhabi
Veronika Kudermetova saved a match point before completing a rally to take down Russian countrywoman and fifth seed Liudmila Samsonova 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (5) in nearly three hours in the first round of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open on Monday.,Kudermetova saved 11 of 16 break points while converting 6 of 9 ...
WTA roundup: Ekaterina Alexandrova, Elise Mertens win titles
No. 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova captured her fifth career title with a 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 win over fifth-seeded Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Sunday in the final of the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.,Alexandrova, of Russia, had two aces and benefited from eight double faults to dispatch Yastremska in 2 ho...
WTA roundup: Finals set in Austria, Singapore
No. 4 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova reached her second consecutive final in Linz, Austria, on Saturday with a dominating 6-0, 6-4 win over top seed Karolina Muchova at the Upper Austria Ladies Linz.,Alexandrova, of Russia, needed just 73 minutes to beat the Czech and move to 4-1 in their head-to-head s...