Only four events on the ATP Challenger Tour last week, with Czech players taking out two titles. Jan Kumstat, the junior Australian Open runner-up to Rei Sakamoto back in 2024, won his maiden Challenger title a couple of weeks ago. He has now won his second in Hamburg, which furtherContinue Reading
Rafael Jodar is turning a promising first season into something extraordinary. The 19-year-old Spaniard advanced to his first ATP Masters 1000 semi-final on Tuesday, defeating Arthur Fils 7-6(5), 6-3 at the National Bank Open in Montreal and moving to the doorstep of the world’s top 10. The quarter-final was farContinue Reading
Tom Gentzsch broke through in style, winning his first ATP Challenger event with the Hagen 100 title. It was a case of fourth time lucky for the German, with 3 runner-up plates in season 2026 already. The win takes him to a career high of #185. Joel Schwarzler, at justContinue Reading
Hanne Vandewinkel won her 14th ITF title of her career, second 100K event, and fourth ITF title of the year, which moves her to a career high of #93. She’s played a lot of tennis this year, with 22 tournaments, and holds a 38-18 W-L record. At only 22 yearsContinue Reading
João Fonseca returned to the ATP Tour with an impressive victory in Montreal, defeating former world No.3 Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6(3), 7-5 to advance to the third round of the National Bank Open. Playing his first tour-level match since losing to Roman Safiullin in the third round at Wimbledon, the 19-year-oldContinue Reading
Some really interesting results on the ATP Challenger Tour last week. Facundo Diaz Acosta won his fifth Challenger title of the year, taking the San Marino 125 title. He’s moved up 128 places this year, to find himself back in the top 100. J.J. Wolf continues his climb back toContinue Reading
Thiago Seyboth Wild played the villain (not for the first time) in Switzerland last week, winning the Zug 125 event. He defeated local favourite Marc-Andrea Hüsler, who had announced that Zug was to be the final tournament of his career. A dream week however, culminated in a disappointing loss, butContinue Reading
Teodora Kostovic took out the biggest event on the ITF Women’s Tour last week, moving to a career high ranking of #146, after winning the Amstetten 100 event. Destanee Aiava seems to have found her happy place representing New Zealand, as she is now 10 out of 10 since defectingContinue Reading
Another week, and another interesting set of winners on the ITF Tour. Three W75 events last week, and for all three winners, it was their biggest title of their career. Kayla Cross took out the Granby 75 event, pushing her back to the top 200. She defeated Sara Saito, whoContinue Reading
Female tennis players faced more than 12,000 abusive posts and messages on social media throughout 2025, according to the latest annual report from the WTA and World Tennis. The figures, drawn from Signify Group’s Threat Matrix monitoring service, reveal that the overall volume of harassment remained stubbornly similar to theContinue Reading
