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- Portrait Lilli Tagger: The Austrian Teenager Born Just Miles from Jannik Sinner Who’s Now Making Noise on Tour
- 2025 Hong Kong Open Results (Updated) Including Qualifiers
- WTA Finals 2025: Results & Schedule of Play
- Madison Keys: “Enjoying the Climb” After Her Breakthrough Grand Slam Season
- Elena Rybakina Enters WTA Finals With Quiet Determination
- 2025 Jiangxi Open Results WTA250 (Updated) Including Qualifiers
- Wozniacki Fires Back: “Peter, You’re a Clown” — Clash with Danish Commentator Escalates
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Portrait Lilli Tagger: The Austrian Teenager Born Just Miles from Jannik Sinner Who’s Now Making Noise on Tour
Drive south from Lienz, across the Austrian-Italian border into Innichen (San Candido), and you’ll find a region that has quietly become one of the most fertile strips of tennis territory in Europe.Here, at roughly 1,100 metres above sea level, kids still ski before they serve. The lungs grow strong. The winters are long. And now,…
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2025 Hong Kong Open Results (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Hong Kong Open will take place from October 27 to November 2. Although it shares the same WTA 250 category as the Chennai Open and the Jiangxi Open, it has attracted the strongest field of the three, despite all being scheduled in the same week. Top seeds in the field include Tokyo Champion…
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WTA Finals 2025: Results & Schedule of Play
The WTA Finals 2025 — the grand conclusion to the women’s tennis season — are set to light up Riyadh from November 1–8, 2025, bringing together the sport’s eight best performers for one final showdown of the year. Defending champion Coco Gauff returns to the desert aiming to retain her crown after her thrilling triumph…
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Madison Keys: “Enjoying the Climb” After Her Breakthrough Grand Slam Season
As Madison Keys prepares for the WTA Finals, she reflects on her transformative 2025 season — a year that brought her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open and a renewed appreciation for the journey. The 30-year-old, who last played the season finale in 2016, has evolved personally and professionally since her early 20s.…
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Elena Rybakina Enters WTA Finals With Quiet Determination
As Elena Rybakina prepares for the start of the WTA Finals on November 1, she arrives in Riyadh with quiet confidence and a renewed sense of purpose after a strong finish to her 2025 season. The Kazakh player, who claimed her first title in over a year before adding another in Ningbo, believes her return…
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2025 Jiangxi Open Results WTA250 (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Jiangxi Open in China has recently moved from Nanchang to Jiujiang. This WTA 250 tournament is scheduled this year at the same time as the new Chennai Open and the Hong Kong Open between October 27 and November 2. Top seeds in the field include fresh Guangzhou champion Ann Li, Viktorija Golubic, and…
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Wozniacki Fires Back: “Peter, You’re a Clown” — Clash with Danish Commentator Escalates
Former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki has hit back sharply at Danish commentator Peter Bastiansen after he criticized her for not making a clear decision about her tennis future. Wozniacki, who gave birth to her third child, Max, in July 2025, is currently on another break from competition. She had returned to the tour in…
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Cyclone Halts Chennai Open as Organizers Battle to Save the Tournament
The WTA 250 Chennai Open has endured a stormy start to its 2025 edition, with play suspended for a second consecutive day as Cyclone Montha lashed India’s east coast. Not a single match has been completed since the event began on Monday, leaving both players and organizers grappling with severe disruption. This year marks only…
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Simona Halep Returns to Tennis in an Official Role at the 2025 WTA Finals in Riyadh
After announcing her retirement in early 2025, former world No. 1 Simona Halep is stepping back into the spotlight — this time not as a player, but in an official capacity at the upcoming WTA Finals 2025, set for 1–8 November in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her involvement has been widely reported by Romanian media, though…
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Naomi Osaka Ends Partnership with Strength Coach Guillaume Brunoir as 2026 Season Nears
Naomi Osaka will begin 2026 with yet another change to her backroom team. French strength and conditioning coach Guillaume Brunoir has announced the end of his collaboration with the four-time Grand Slam champion, bringing to a close a partnership that began in late 2024. The move marks another shift for Osaka, who has already navigated…
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2025 Chennai Open Results WTA250 (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Chennai Open marks the tournament’s second edition and India’s return to hosting a WTA event for the first time since 2022, when the inaugural edition ended a three-year break in professional women’s tennis in the country. The event has to compete with the Hong Kong Open and Jiangxi Open, which are being played…
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Live WTA Rankings After 2025 Tokyo and Guangzhou Finals
As of October 26, 2025, the live WTA rankings reflect the full impact of the Tokyo (WTA 500) and Guangzhou (WTA 250) tournaments, both of which wrapped up with statement victories and major shifts across the top tiers of the standings. In Tokyo, Belinda Bencic produced one of her most convincing performances of the season,…
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Ann Li Tops Lulu Sun to Win 2025 Guangzhou Open, Clinching Her Second WTA Crown
Ann Li finally has her moment again. The American captured her first WTA title since 2021, defeating New Zealand’s Lulu Sun in straight sets to win the Guangzhou Open — ending a four-year wait and sealing a long-awaited return to the winner’s circle. It had been a journey defined by near-misses. Li fell short in…
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Belinda Bencic Seals Emotional Comeback with Pan Pacific Open 2025 Title in Tokyo
Belinda Bencic captured the Pan Pacific Open title in Tokyo on Sunday, sealing her 10th career crown — and her second of the season — with a 6-2, 6-3 victory over Linda Noskova in just one hour and 22 minutes. The win carried extra weight: exactly ten years ago, a then-18-year-old Bencic had fallen short…
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Martina Navratilova Predictions: Picks Clear Favourite for the WTA Finals
The lineup for the 2025 WTA Finals is set, and few voices command as much authority as Martina Navratilova when analysing it. The 18-time Grand Slam singles champion has offered her sharp take on some of the elite eight heading to Riyadh, where Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek again lead the charge. She also talks…