Lots of events across the ITF Tour last week. On the women’s side, Emerson Jones wins her 4th ITF title of her career. She’s up to 162 in the rankings, just 15 places shy of her career high. Tereza Martincova, former world number 40 (now 413), has won her firstContinue Reading
Serena Williams is back. At least, the tennis world assumes she’s back. As of February 22, 2026, the ITIA has cleared her to compete professionally after six months in the testing pool. No press release, no big announcement—just the quiet administrative green light that has everyone whispering about a return.Continue Reading
With the Australian Open now well and truly in the tennis rearview mirror, there is one topic that is still on everybody’s mind. Craig Tiley, the Tennis Australia and AO boss, flagged the idea of women playing best-of-5 sets from the quarter-finals onwards next year. “One of the things I’veContinue Reading
We’ve got all the ITF Tour results from the Men’s and Women’s tour. Talia Gibson took out her 12th title, and moves up to 110 in the rankings, just shy of her career high. She will be pushing hard to break into the top 100 in the coming weeks. OnContinue Reading
A few big names on the women’s ITF tour this week, with Austrian young gun, Lilli Tagger, picking up another title, while a very familiar face, Bianca Andreescu got some good match practice, and a title last week. For the men, Charles Broom has been in good form on theContinue Reading
Iva Jovic delivered a 4th Rd. masterclass at the Australian Open today, destroying Yulia Putintseva 6-0 6-1. Almost any stat you wish to list, was well in favour of the 18-year-old American, who is into the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam for the first time. This is only her sixthContinue Reading
Zeynep Sonmez has done it again. Just months after etching her name into Turkish tennis history at Wimbledon, the 23-year-old qualifier powered into the third round of the Australian Open, with a confident 6-2, 6-4 win over Hungary’s Anna Bondar. It marks the first time a Turkish player has reachedContinue Reading
The Australian Open is clearly where the eyes of the tennis world are this week, but there were plenty of ITF events taking place around the world. For the previous week’s results, click here. On the women’s tour, Lisa Pigato took out her biggest title, the W75 in Nonthaburi. ThisContinue Reading
Iga Swiatek fought through her first match of the Australian Open tested, but relatively unscathed, in a 7-6 6-3 win over China’s Yuan Yue on Rod Laver Arena last night. Swiatek has now won 25 straight first round matches in majors, going back six years. In fact, she’s played 28Continue Reading
The organisers of the Australian Open – or any Major tournament really – always have a tough job creating the schedule in the early rounds. But perhaps the biggest blunder of the week so far – in what has been a highly successful start to the event – was theContinue Reading
