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WTA roundup: Ajla Tomljanovic KOs Venus Williams in Austin opener
Venus Williams remained winless on the year after dropping her first-round match to Australia's Ajla Tomljanovic 6-4, 6-1 on Tuesday at the ATX Open in Austin, Texas.,Williams, 45, is 0-4 for the season, including a loss to Serbia's Olga Danilovic at the Australian Open last month. The seven-time ma...
WTA roundup: Rebeka Masarova pulls off first-round upset in Austin
Swiss qualifier Rebeka Masarova overpowered third-seeded Xinyu Wang of China 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the ATX Open on Monday in Austin, Texas.,Masarova won 85.7% of her first-serve points (30 of 35) and saved four of the five break points she faced. She avenged a loss to Wang three weeks ago i...
Suspended player sues WTA for $20M over steroid ban
Suspended WTA professional Tara Moore of Great Britain filed a $20 million lawsuit in New York claiming her positive test for steroids in 2022 was because of contaminated local meat served during an event in Colombia.,Moore, 33, was given a four-year suspension after testing positive for two differe...
Jessica Pegula defeats Elina Svitolina for Dubai title
No. 4 seed Jessica Pegula celebrated her birthday a few days early and defeated No. 6 Elina Svitolina of Ukraine 6-2, 6-4 on Saturday to win the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.,The decisive 72-minute victory gave Pegula her 10th career WTA Tour singles title, her first since last June in Bad H...
Jessica Pegula, Elina Svitolina advance to final in Dubai
Fourth-seeded Jessica Pegula completed quite the comeback on Friday to advance to the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.,Pegula overcame dropping the first set and falling behind 3-1 in the second to record a 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory versus second-seeded Amanda Anisimova in the WTA 1000...
Three Americans charge into Dubai semifinals
Americans Amanda Anisimova, Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula reached the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships along with Ukraine's Elina Svitolina on Thursday.,The second-seeded Anisimova will meet the fourth-seeded Pegula, and the third-seeded Gauff will take on No. 7 seed Svitolina ...
Coco Gauff saves 3 match points to reach Dubai quarters
No. 3 seed Coco Gauff fought off three match points and advanced to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships quarterfinals with a 2-6, 7-6 (9), 6-3 victory over Belgium's Elise Mertens on Wednesday.,Gauff overcame 16 double faults and completed the comeback in two hours and 18 minutes to improve to ...
Coco Gauff rallies to reach third round at Dubai
No. 3 seed Coco Gauff rallied from a break down in both sets to defeat Russia's Anna Kalinskaya 6-4, 6-4 in second-round action Tuesday at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates.,Gauff overcame 12 double faults and 33 unforced errors in the 92-minute match, saving seven...
Coco Gauff speaks out, doesn't 'like what's going on' in U.S.
Coco Gauff said at a press conference Sunday at the Dubai Tennis Championships that she's "proud to be an American" while also denouncing the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis last month.,"Everything going on in the U.S. -- obviously I'm not really for it. I don't think people sh...
Iva Jovic survives up-and-down Dubai opener
No. 16 seed Iva Jovic came away with a roller-coaster 6-1, 1-6, 6-1 win over Uzbekistan's Kamilla Rakhimova in the opening round of the Dubai Duty Free Championship in the United Arab Emirates on Monday.,Jovic, one of just three seeded competitors in action Monday, stunningly lost all three of her s...
Leylah Fernandez comes from set down to win in Dubai
Leylah Fernandez of Canada rallied to upset No. 13 Liudmila Samsonova 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 in the opening round of the Dubai Duty Free Championship in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday.,With her loss in the two-hour, 52-minute match, Samsonova dropped to 0-5 in three-set matches in 2026.,Samsonova and Fer...
Karolina Muchova collects first WTA title since 2019 in Doha
For the first time since 2019, Karolina Muchova is a champion on the WTA Tour.,The 29-year-old Czech Republic native earned a 6-4, 7-5 victory over Canada's Victoria Mboko in the Qatar Open final on Saturday in Doha.,Muchova, the tournament's No. 14 seed, converted three of eight break points to cla...
Victoria Mboko, Karolina Muchova to square off in Doha title match
No. 10 seed Victoria Mboko delivered six aces while recording a 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jelena Ostapenko on Friday to reach the final of the Qatar Open at Doha.,Mboko took down Ostapenko one day after upsetting Australian Open champion Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan in a quarterfinal match.,The Canadian...
Maria Sakkari upsets No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek in Doha QFs
Unseeded Maria Sakkari of Greece toppled No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the quarterfinals of the Qatar TotalEnergies Open on Thursday in Doha.,Swiatek wasn't alone in the early exit, as Canadian No. 10 seed Victoria Mboko knocked out No. 2 Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan 7-5, 4-6, 6-...
Victoria Mboko outlasts fellow teen Mirra Andreeva in Doha
Canada's Victoria Mboko outlasted fellow teen sensation Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Qatar Open at Doha.,The 10th-seeded Mboko saved a match point in the third set when No. 5 Andreeva double-faulted. Mboko soon prevailed in a tiebreaker to defe...
Serena Williams, 44, eligible to play pro tennis events Feb. 22
Whether or not tennis great Serena Williams is considering a comeback, the 23-time Grand Slam champion is now eligible to return as soon as Feb. 22.,The International Tennis Integrity Agency included Williams, 44, on the updated list of reinstated players on Tuesday. That was the last step in a proc...
Elisabetta Cocciaretto ousts Coco Gauff in Doha
Elisabetta Cocciaretto's focus is split this week but there was no visible evidence of that on Tuesday when she rolled to a 6-4, 6-2 second-round upset of No. 4 seed Coco Gauff at the Qatar Open in Doha.,The Italian saved four of five break points while unceremoniously sending Gauff home after the A...
Defending champ Amanda Anisimova bows out of Qatar opener
Amanda Anisimova, the No. 3 seed and reigning champion at the Qatar TotalEnergies Open 2026, was forced to retire due to illness in the third set of her opening match against Karolina Pliskova on Monday in Doha.,Anisimova fared well against her Czech opponent, splitting the first two sets 7-5, 6-7 (...
Alycia Parks kicks off Qatar Open by upsetting Diana Shnaider
A recent practice session with the great Serena Williams may have paid off for Alycia Parks, who took down Russian 15th seed Diana Shnaider 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) to begin the Qatar TotalEnergies Open on Sunday in Doha.,Parks, an American ranked 85th in the world, recently told the website Tennis Majors ...
WTA roundup: Qualifier Sara Bejlek wins Abu Dhabi title
Czech qualifier Sara Bejlek defeated No. 2 seed Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia 7-6 (5), 6-1 to capture her first title on Saturday at the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Open in the United Arab Emirates.,The 20-year-old Bejlek, ranked No. 101 in the world, pulled away after a competitive first set to win the WT...