Articles: Tennis

Coco Gauff is a former WTA Finals champion. Linda Noskova has just won Wimbledon. Neither needs an introduction, and neither is particularly interested in the other’s résumé. They meet Tuesday with a semifinal place potentially within reach. Gauff leads their rivalry 2-1, but Noskova won their only meeting this season, surviving a third-set tiebreak in […]

Jessica Pegula has won 50 matches this season. Marta Kostyuk has lost five straight matches, including a retirement, and entered the WTA Finals as an emergency replacement. The bookmakers have Pegula at -167. Sensible enough. Except Kostyuk has beaten her twice in 2026. Both times in straight sets. Now both players have lost their opening […]

Mirra Andreeva has a Grand Slam trophy, 50 victories this season, and a world ranking of No. 3. At 19, she is already collecting achievements that many players spend entire careers chasing. Elina Svitolina has something the French Open champion cannot buy: a WTA Finals title, earned in 2018, and the memory of beating Andreeva […]

Aryna Sabalenka is the highest-ranked player remaining at the WTA Finals. She has reached two championship matches at this event, won Indian Wells in March and remains one of the most formidable hard-court competitors in women’s tennis. Karolina Muchova has something considerably less decorative than a trophy: a winning record against her. Three victories in […]

Marta Kostyuk spent October watching her WTA Finals qualification hopes disappear. On Saturday, Elena Rybakina’s withdrawal handed her a place among the eight women competing for the season’s final major prize. Her first assignment is Linda Noskova, the Wimbledon champion who has already beaten her twice this year. The Ukrainian arrives with little recent momentum […]

Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula have played ten singles matches against each other, contested major finals, and shared a doubles partnership. On Sunday, November 8, they begin another WTA Finals campaign on the outdoor hard courts of Indian Wells. Coco Gauff arrives as the 2024 champion. Pegula was runner-up in 2023 and reached last year’s […]

Linda Noskova has a Wimbledon trophy, 347 aces this season, and a place among the world’s eight best players. Yet Elena Rybakina remains the opponent she has never beaten in a completed match. Three meetings. Three straight-set defeats. Not even a tiebreak. Now they open the WTA Finals, where Noskova’s breakthrough season meets Rybakina’s most […]

WTA Guangzhou Open | Women’s singles quarterfinal | Friday, October 30, 2026 | Outdoor hard court | Approximately 10:00 PM ET Thursday, October 29 Paula Badosa arrives in the Guangzhou quarterfinals with two commanding victories. Harriet Dart arrives with four consecutive wins, including an upset of the tournament’s second seed. Their contrasting paths have created […]

Four games. That was Leylah Fernandez’s entire return on investment against Elena Rybakina in Sunday’s Ningbo final. Five days later, the same two women will meet again in Tokyo. Same surface. Same enormous favorite. A different opportunity for the Canadian to challenge the result. Rybakina has since secured the year-end world No. 1 ranking. Fernandez […]

Mia Pohankova’s remarkable Tokyo campaign has transformed an unfamiliar name into one of the tournament’s most compelling stories. The 18-year-old Slovakian wildcard now approaches a quarterfinal against Alycia Parks, carrying the unusual distinction of being favored over an established WTA competitor. Parks has her own compelling claim to attention. The American qualifier has won four […]