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Ons Jabeur to 'disconnect a bit' from tennis after Wimbledon retirement
Former Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur's tough season continued Monday when she retired from her first-round match against Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria at the All England Club in London.,Tomova won 7-6 (5), 2-0.,In the first set, Jabeur and Tomova exchanged breaks of serve before Jabeur broke Tomova's...
Ons Jabeur to 'disconnect a bit' from tennis after Wimbeldon retirement
Former Wimbledon finalist Ons Jabeur's tough season continued Monday when she retired from her first-round match against Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria at the All England Club in London.,Tomova won 7-6 (5), 2-0.,In the first set, Jabeur and Tomova exchanged breaks of serve before Jabeur broke Tomova's...
Iga Swiatek: Tennis schedule too 'intense' for players
Iga Swiatek said the tennis calendar is too tightly packed and forces players to compete in too many tournaments, just for the sake of ranking points.,Speaking to reporters in advance of Wimbledon, where she is the No. 8 seed, the former World No. 1 said too much is being asked of players.,Swiatek o...
WTA roundup: Jessica Pegula jolts Iga Swiatek in Germany
Top-seed Jessica Pegula captured her third title of the season Saturday with a 6-4, 7-5 victory over fourth-seeded Iga Swiatek in the final of the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Pegula overcame nine aces by the Poland native and saved the only break point she faced to win the match in 1 hour, 46 minut...
WTA roundup: Iga Swiatek reaches first grass final
Fourth-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland reached her first final of 2025 and her first ever on grass with a swift victory Friday at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Swiatek only faced one break point in a 6-1, 6-3 defeat of No. 2 seed Jasmine Paolini of Italy in just 66 minutes. It was the five-time Gran...
WTA roundup: Linda Noskova joins three high seeds in Bad Homburg semis
Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic won in an upset and advanced to the semifinals to face No. 1 Jessica Pegula, who survived a three-set scare Thursday at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Noskova took down Russian third seed Mirra Andreeva 6-3, 6-3. She never lost her serve, saving all three break ...
Aryna Sabalenka top women's seed at Wimbledon as Iga Swiatek falls to No. 8
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, as expected, is the top seed in the women's draw at Wimbledon.,Her rival, Iga Swiatek of Poland, is the eighth seed, an uncharacteristic spot for the five-time Grand Slam champion.,Swiatek, 24, is in a season-long slump that has seen her fall to No. 8 in the world rankin...
WTA Roundup: Maya Joint holds off Emma Raducanu comeback at Eastbourne
Seventh-seeded Emma Raducanu of Great Britain couldn't complete a hard-fought comeback attempt and lost 4-6, 6-1, 7-6 (4) to Maya Joint on Wednesday in Eastbourne, England.,Raducanu broke the Australian three times when she was serving for the match to set up a tie-break and even earned a mini-break...
WTA Ventures, Tennis Channel reach 6-year rights deal
WTA Ventures and Tennis Channel announced Wednesday they have agreed to a six-year media rights deal that will ensure that the latter's platforms will continue to be the exclusive home of WTA tennis in the United States through 2032.,The deal covers all WTA Tour 1000, 500 and 250 events -- with the ...
WTA roundup: Iga Swiatek earns milestone win at Bad Homburg
Fourth-seeded Iga Swiatek overcame a slow start against another former World No. 1, Victoria Azarenka, to win 6-4, 6-4 on Tuesday at the Bad Homburg Open in Germany.,Poland's Swiatek notched her 300th career tour-level win and first of the grass-court season after being down 4-1 in the first set to ...
WTA Roundup: Lulu Sun knocks off defending champ Daria Kasatkina at Eastbourne
Wimbledon quarterfinalist Lulu Sun emerged on top after a grueling three-setter to defeat No. 1 seed and defending champion Daria Kasatkina 7-5, 2-6, 6-3 at the Eastbourne Open on Monday.,Dealing with blustery conditions, New Zealand's Sun converted 4 of 6 break points in the first set and rallied f...
WTA roundup: Marketa Vondrousova wins first title in 2 years
Marketa Vondrousova captured her first WTA title since she won Wimbledon in 2023, defeating Xinyu Wang in three sets at the Berlin Open on Sunday.,Vondrousova, a Czech, outlasted Wang 7-6 (10), 4-6, 6-2 on a scorching day in Berlin. The grass-court win signaled, perhaps, the start of a comeback for ...
WTA roundup: Marketa Vondrousova, Xinyu Wang to face off for first Berlin title
The Berlin Open will crown a first-time winner after Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic and China's Xinyu Wang won their semifinal matches on Saturday.,Despite dealing with shoulder injuries, Vondrousova took down World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka who, for the second straight day, attempted a late-...
WTA Roundup: Aryna Sabalenka comes back for quarterfinal win in Berlin
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus saved four match points in the final-set tiebreaker to defeat Kazakhstan's Elena Rybakina 7-6 (6), 3-6, 7-6 (6) in the quarterfinals of the Berlin Tennis Open on Friday.,Sabalenka came out on top despite trailing Rybakina 6-2 in the deciding tiebreaker of what ...
WTA roundup: Xinyu Wang upsets Coco Gauff in Berlin
Xinyu Wang of China knocked off French Open champion Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-3 in the Round of 16 at the Berlin Tennis Open on Thursday.,Gauff, the No. 2 seed, was playing in her first match since winning her second career Grand Slam on June 7 at Roland Garros. She had seven double faults to just one ace,...
2-time Wimbledon champ Petra Kvitova to retire after U.S. Open
Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova plans to retire from professional tennis at the end of the season.,Kvitova, 35, announced her intentions Thursday on both Instagram and X., ,"I've been privileged to reach incredible heights over the past 19 years since becoming a professional tennis player,...
WTA roundup: Jessica Pegula, Jasmine Paolini fall in Berlin
Third-seeded Jessica Pegula and fourth-seeded Jasmine Paolini of Italy were knocked out during second-round play Wednesday on the grass at the Berlin Open.,Unseeded Russian Liudmila Samsonova needed 3 hours, 21 minutes to earn a 6-7 (8), 7-5, 7-6 (5) upset of Pegula. She fought off two match points ...
WTA roundup: McCartney Kessler ousts No. 1 seed in Nottingham
Unseeded McCartney Kessler upset No. 1 seed Beatriz Haddad Maia of Brazil, 5-7, 7-6 (3), 7-5, in the first round of the Lexus Nottingham Open in Nottingham, England.,In a nearly three-hour match, Kessler -- ranked No. 42 in the world -- led 6-5 in the third set, then broke Haddad Maia's serve to cli...
WTA roundup: Madison Keys shown early exit from Berlin
Marketa Vondrousova of the Czech Republic staved off No. 7 seed Madison Keys 7-5, 7-6 (6) during the first round of the Berlin Tennis Open on Tuesday.,Neither player broke serve in the second set until the tiebreaker, when Vondrousova ran out to a 4-0 lead. The Australian Open champion rattled off f...
Aryna Sabalenka apologizes to Coco Gauff for French Open remarks
Aryna Sabalenka said she apologized to Coco Gauff for her "unprofessional" comments following her loss in the final of the French Open.,Sabalenka, ranked No. 1 in the world, told reporters during her post-match news conference in Paris on June 7 that her mistakes -- rather than Gauff's play -- were ...