The WTA Tour is the highest level of women’s professional tennis, taking the world’s leading players to tournaments across the globe throughout the season. But the structure behind it can initially seem complicated. What is the difference between a WTA 1000 and WTA 500? Are the Grand Slams part ofContinue Reading
Seven big ATP Challenger events on the tour last week, with some very familiar names taking home another title. Thiago Seyboth Wild and Facundo Diaz Acosta have been very prolific on the Challenger Tour this year. Seyboth Wild won his third event in Genoa last week, while Diaz Acosta notchedContinue Reading
With the US Open obviously taking centre stage, it’s easy to lose track of what’s happening on the ITF Tours. We have all the results from last week here. On the women’s side, the only Venezuelan player on the WTA Tour, Sofia Elena Cabezas Dominguez, won her first ever ITFContinue Reading
Ben Shelton will attempt to break one of the longest droughts in American tennis when he faces Alexander Zverev in Sunday’s US Open men’s singles final at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Not since Andy Roddick defeated Juan Carlos Ferrero in the 2003 final has an American man won a Grand SlamContinue Reading
The Grand Slam season will finish as it began, with Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina facing each other across a hard court with one of tennis’s biggest prizes between them. Seven months after Rybakina recovered to defeat Sabalenka in the Australian Open final, the two leading players in the women’sContinue Reading
Alex Michelsen was just two points from his first Grand Slam semi-final. Frances Tiafoe was two sets down, one game from defeat and seemingly out of answers. But tennis scoring is unique. More than two hours later, Michelsen was crying on his countryman’s shoulder and Tiafoe was celebrating one ofContinue Reading
Alexander Blockx began 2026 outside the world’s top 100 and needing to qualify for the Australian Open. Eight months later, the 21-year-old Belgian is a US Open quarter-finalist, a Masters 1000 semi-finalist and one of the most convincing examples yet that the next generation of men’s tennis is arriving asContinue Reading
Before the match, Iva Jovic and Alexandra Eala were friends, rising stars and part of US Open Fan Week’s warmest scenes, when they brought their fathers on court during a playful doubles exhibition. For three hours and three minutes on Saturday night, however, that was all put aside. In theContinue Reading
Every professional tennis tournament has a qualifying competition where players fight for a place in the main draw. Most who lose are eliminated—but a select few are given a second chance. These players are known as lucky losers. A lucky loser is a player who loses in the final roundContinue Reading
Not every player in a professional tennis tournament earns a place in the main draw through their world ranking. For many players, the journey begins in the qualifying tournament. Those who successfully make it through are known as qualifiers. Qualifying is one of the toughest parts of professional tennis. PlayersContinue Reading
