World No. 170 Sonay Kartal faces French Open finalist Maja Chwalińska in an unlikely Wuhan championship match, with both players chasing their first WTA 1000 title. Few would have predicted a Wuhan Open final between Sonay Kartal and Maja Chwalińska when the tournament began. One entered the event ranked WorldContinue Reading
The six-time Grand Slam champion faces an unfamiliar challenge as the season draws to a close, but a defeat for one of her closest rivals could provide a timely opportunity. For much of the past five years, Iga Świątek has approached the closing stages of the tennis season knowing herContinue Reading
The Olympic champion defeats Mirra Andreeva to become the first Chinese singles winner at the China Open, claiming her maiden WTA 1000 title after a difficult battle with injury. Zheng Qinwen has achieved plenty in her young career, but few victories will carry quite the same personal significance as theContinue Reading
At the beginning of 2026, Arthur Géa was ranked outside the world’s top 200 and had barely made an impression on the ATP Tour. Nine months later, the 21-year-old Frenchman has an ATP title to his name, a Grand Slam fourth-round appearance and, as of Sunday, a victory over theContinue Reading
One of the ATP Challenger Tour’s longest-running and most distinctive tournaments has come to an abrupt end. The BRAWO Open in Braunschweig will not return in 2027 after organisers confirmed that they could no longer secure the financial support required to stage the event. First held in 1994, the clay-courtContinue Reading
The WTA has unveiled its 2027 calendar, introducing a series of changes designed to give players greater control over their schedules while taking another major step towards equal prize money. The new season will feature 55 events across 26 countries and territories, including a new WTA 250 in Manila, whileContinue Reading
A year after Guadalajara provided the breakthrough moment of her young career, Iva Jovic returned to Mexico and proved that her first title was only the beginning. The 18-year-old American successfully defended her Guadalajara Open crown with a commanding 6-4, 6-2 victory over compatriot Peyton Stearns, completing a flawless weekContinue 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
