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Jessica Pegula rallies to reach Beijing semifinals
Jessica Pegula rallied to reach the China Open semifinals with a 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1 win Friday against fellow American Emma Navarro in Beijing.,The fifth-seeded Pegula will face No. 26 seed Linda Noskova for a spot in the final of the WTA 1000 tournament.,Pegula needed just over two hours to defeat t...
Coco Gauff, Amanda Anisimova reach Beijing semifinals
No. 2 seed Coco Gauff and No. 3 Amanda Anisimova will clash in an All-American semifinal at the China Open in Beijing.,Gauff rolled to a 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal win on Thursday against Germany's Eva Lys while Anisimova rallied for a 6-7 (4), 6-3, 6-4 victory against sixth-seeded Jasmine Paolini of Ita...
Emma Navarro dumps top seed Iga Swiatek in Beijing
No. 16 seed Emma Navarro stormed into the China Open quarterfinals with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 upset of top-seeded Iga Swiatek of Poland on Wednesday in Beijing.,Navarro dominated the World No. 2 in the third set to finish the match in two hours and 30 minutes. Her triumph was her first in three meetings w...
Injured Paula Badosa to miss rest of 2025 season
Eighteenth-ranked Paula Badosa announced Tuesday that she plans to take the rest of the year off and vowed to "come back stronger" in 2026.,The Spanish tennis player's announcement on Instagram came two days after she retired from her third-round match against Czech Karolina Muchova, the No. 15-rank...
WTA roundup: Coco Gauff rallies to 3-set win in Beijing
Second-seeded Coco Gauff overcame a first-set misstep to record a 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over 16th-seeded Belinda Bencic in the fourth round of the China Open on Tuesday in Beijing.,Gauff, the tournament's defending champion, recorded four aces and overcame eight double faults to dispatch the Swi...
Jessica Pegula fights off three match points in Beijing
No. 5 seed Jessica Pegula fought off three match points in the second-set tiebreak in Monday's 3-6, 7-6 (9), 6-0 win against No. 30 Emma Raducanu of Great Britain at the China Open in Beijing.,Trailing 6-5 and 8-7, Pegula saved the first two match points with backhand winners down the line. Down 9-8...
Coco Gauff struggles but holds off Leylah Fernandez to advance in China
Coco Gauff fended off a feisty challenge from Leylah Fernandez as she continued her title defense Sunday at the China Open in Beijing.,Gauff defeated Fernandez, of Canada, 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 in a two-hour, 45-minute match, Gauff was forced to battle not only Fernandez but her old nemesis: her serve.,The ...
No. 1 seed Iga Swiatek easily passes first Beijing test
Top-seeded Iga Swiatek made WTA Tour history Saturday with a swift 6-0, 6-3 second-round win over home hopeful Yuan Yue at the China Open in Beijing.,The victory made the World No. 2 from Poland the first player ever to record 25 or more wins at WTA 1000 events for three consecutive seasons.,Coming ...
Coco Gauff closes strong to begin Beijing title defense
Coco Gauff began her China Open title defense with a 6-4, 6-0 win over Russia's Kamilla Rakhimova on Friday in Beijing.,The second-round clash started with the competitors splitting the first six games on serve before Gauff took complete control, winning nine of the last 10 games of the match. ,The ...
Lois Boisson works overtime to advance in Beijing
France's Lois Boisson survived a three-hour, 24-minute slugfest with Hungary's Dalma Galfi on Thursday, advancing to the second round of the China Open in Beijing with a 7-6 (6), 5-7, 6-2 win.,It was the second marathon match of the WTA 1000 tournament already, with Greece's Maria Sakkari outlasting...
Maria Sakkari survives marathon opener in Beijing
Maria Sakkari outlasted Ashlyn Krueger to win their first-round match 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 7-5 in three hours and 29 minutes Wednesday at the China Open in Beijing.,It was the third-longest match this season on the WTA Tour and a rollercoaster for Greece's Sakkari, who nearly blew a 5-2 lead in the fir...
Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia cites health in ending season early
Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia announced the end of her tennis season Monday due to health issues.,Haddad Maia, 29, is ranked No. 40 in the world and has four career WTA Tour singles titles.,"I'm ending my 2025 season a little earlier than planned so I can rest my body and mind for a longer period," s...
WTA roundup: Iga Swiatek rallies to win Korea Open
Top-seeded Iga Swiatek bounced back from a rough start to post a 1-6, 7-6 (3), 7-5 victory over second-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova on Sunday in the final of the Korea Open in Seoul.,Swiatak, of Poland, recorded her third win of the season and 25th in her career in two hours, 41 minutes despite comm...
Iga Swiatek dominates to reach Korea Open final
Two matches in one day appeared to be no problem for world No. 2 Iga Swiatek, who won twice Saturday as a rainout the previous day forced both the quarterfinals and the semifinals of the Korea Open to be played just hours apart.,In what had been expected to be a highly competitive match, Swiatek dom...
Jasmine Paolini leads Italy to Billie Jean King Cup finals
Jasmine Paolini earned singles and doubles wins on Friday as defending champion Italy advanced to the Billie Jean King Cup's championship series.,The Italians rallied to a 2-1 win over Ukraine in Shenzhen, China. Their opponent in the title match on Sunday will be the winner of the Saturday semifina...
Three seeded players fall in Korea Open second round
Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic posted a 7-6 (2), 6-2 upset of No. 4 seed Daria Kasatkina of Australia in the second round of the Korea Open on Thursday in Seoul.,Kasatkina rallied from down 5-2 in the first set to force a tiebreaker. In the second set, she was broken three times and lost t...
Sofia Kenin rallies to win first-round match at Korea Open
Seventh-seeded Sofia Kenin rallied from an uncompetitive first set to knock off Germany's Laura Siegmund 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 in opening-round action of the Korea Open in Seoul, South Korea on Monday.,Kenin, the only seeded competitor in action on the first day of the event, fell in a 5-0 hole in the openi...
WTA roundup: Teenagers cruise to titles in Guadalajara, Sao Paulo
Iva Jovic, a 17-year-old native of Southern California, secured her first WTA Tour title at the Guadalajara Open Akron by finishing off Colombia's Emiliana Arango 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday in Mexico.,Jovic received a favorable path at the WTA 500-level event, as she only faced one seeded player, the No. 8 ...
WTA roundup: Janice Tjen, Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah reach Sao Paolo final
A pair of unseeded players, Indonesia's Janice Tjen and France's Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah, pulled off semifinal upsets at the SP Open Saturday in Sao Paolo and will meet in Sunday's final.,Tjen took down No. 6 seed Francesca Jones of Great Britain 7-6 (0), 6-3, and Rakotomanga Rajaonah upended ...
WTA roundup: Four lower seeds triumph in Sao Paulo quarters
Friday was a day for the underdogs in Sao Paulo, as all four lower-seeded players vanquished their foes in the quarterfinal matches of the SP Open.,Mexican fifth seed Renata Zarazua, who sent Madison Keys home in first round of the U.S. Open last month, knocked off top-seeded Brazilian hopeful Beatr...