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- Nominations for the WTA Awards 2025: A Year So Chaotic Even the Shortlists Feel Like Plot Twists
- Ann Li’s 2025: A Season Spent Rebuilding a Career One Brick at a Time
- Jaqueline Cristian’s 2025: The Quiet Climb That Nobody Noticed Until She Was Already There
- Eva Lys Confronts the Shadows Behind Her Breakthrough — Pressure, Whiplash Court Speeds, and Stalkers Who Cross Every Line
- Navarro’s 2025: A Year Spent Wrestling With the Weight of the Top 10
- Simona Halep Slips Out the Side Door — No Tour, No Tears, Just a Clean Break
- Gauff and Swiatek Set the Tone for 2026 — Different Paths, Same January Pressure
- Alexandrova 2025: The Year Ekaterina Finally Stopped Knocking and Walked In
- Season 2025 Top Earners: Top 100 WTA Prize Money Leaders
- Dementieva and Kafelnikov on Vukov-Gate, Serve Speeds, Being an Alternate, and the WTA Finals Final : “Elena Rybakina Was Brilliant”
- Rybakina’s Riyadh Triumph Turns Political — Kuznetsova Applauds, Shriver Condemns as WTA Rift Deepens
- WTA Rankings After 2025 WTA Finals: The Pack Is Growling Louder
- The Players Want a Seat: WTA Revolt Brewing Over Grand Slam Silence
- Why WTA Chief Portia Archer Was Left Frozen Out by Rybakina After Finals Triumph
- Elena Rybakina Makes History: Wins Record-Breaking Prize Money With 2025 WTA Finals Triumph
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Nominations for the WTA Awards 2025: A Year So Chaotic Even the Shortlists Feel Like Plot Twists
The WTA season winds to a close this week, which means one thing: it’s time for the sport’s annual ritual of corralling a year’s worth of brilliance, bruises and borderline madness into a tidy set of award categories. No fan votes, no popularity contests — just cold, committee-issued judgment. And in a season where Anisimova…
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Ann Li’s 2025: A Season Spent Rebuilding a Career One Brick at a Time
Ann Li began 2025 ranked No.91 — a name drifting on the outskirts of relevance, too talented to ignore but too inconsistent to trust. What followed was a year defined by incremental gains, the kind you only notice if you’re watching closely. By the time the tour closed in Jiujiang, she’d worked her way all…
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Jaqueline Cristian’s 2025: The Quiet Climb That Nobody Noticed Until She Was Already There
Jaqueline Cristian began 2025 buried at No.62 — the sort of ranking that leaves you stranded between tours, recognised mostly by diehards and the people who draw qualifying schedules. What followed wasn’t a breakout so much as a stealth ascent, a year where she kept nudging the needle until, almost unnoticed, she’d parked herself inside…
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Eva Lys Confronts the Shadows Behind Her Breakthrough — Pressure, Whiplash Court Speeds, and Stalkers Who Cross Every Line
Breakthrough seasons are supposed to come with champagne moments and the odd bruised toe — not men tracking your hotel room number. Yet this is where Eva Lys now finds herself: rising, winning, adapting, and suddenly discovering how fragile the sport’s protective shell really is Germany’s new No.1 walked into Billie Jean King Cup week…
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Navarro’s 2025: A Year Spent Wrestling With the Weight of the Top 10
Emma Navarro began 2025 sitting at No.8 in the world, a newly-minted member of the sport’s upper class. It looked like the start of a long stay in elite company; instead, it became a lesson in how heavy those numbers can feel once they’re printed next to your name. By October in Wuhan she was…
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Simona Halep Slips Out the Side Door — No Tour, No Tears, Just a Clean Break
Simona Halep didn’t wait for a farewell wave or a sunset ceremony. She simply drifted off court in Cluj-Napoca at the Transylvania Open nine months ago and, somewhere between a throbbing knee and a 6–1 first set lost to Italy’s Lucia Bronzetti, realised she’d reached the end. No drama, no dossier. Another 6–1 in the…
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Gauff and Swiatek Set the Tone for 2026 — Different Paths, Same January Pressure
Coco Gauff hasn’t even cooled from the WTA Finals, yet her 2026 itinerary is already locked in — and it begins where her season caught fire last January. The United Cup, once the tournament she routinely sidestepped for Auckland, has become her favored launchpad. One title run — capped by a clean, nerveless win over…
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Alexandrova 2025: The Year Ekaterina Finally Stopped Knocking and Walked In
Ekaterina Alexandrova began 2025 hovering around the mid-20s, a familiar purgatory for a player too good to drift but still searching for the rhythm that would push her into the sport’s upper tier. What followed was a season that swung between inspired surges, maddening lapses, and the sort of stubborn competitiveness that kept her name…
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Season 2025 Top Earners: Top 100 WTA Prize Money Leaders
Here it is: the latest Season 2025 Top Earners list (updated October 20, 2025), built from the WTA’s own numbers and delivered by Tennis-WTA.com — the fan-led corner of the internet that actually cares. It’s the definitive snapshot of who made what this year. Wander through it at will: search your favourites, your flag, or…
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Dementieva and Kafelnikov on Vukov-Gate, Serve Speeds, Being an Alternate, and the WTA Finals Final : “Elena Rybakina Was Brilliant”
Russian tennis has rarely lacked for character, and few embody that better than Elena Dementieva and Yevgeny Kafelnikov — two champions who defined their eras with contrasting flair. Their insights are revealing — always filtered through a distinctly Russian lens. As Svetlana Kuznetsova remarked earlier this week, from their perspective Moscow-born Rybakina remains a Russian…
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Rybakina’s Riyadh Triumph Turns Political — Kuznetsova Applauds, Shriver Condemns as WTA Rift Deepens
Elena Rybakina should have been basking in glory. A 6-3, 7-6(0) masterclass over world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka delivered her the WTA Finals crown — the biggest title of her career outside Wimbledon. But instead of a victory lap, the 26-year-old found herself at the centre of another storm. Her refusal to stand beside WTA…
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WTA Rankings After 2025 WTA Finals: The Pack Is Growling Louder
As of November 10, 2025, this Final WTA rankings capture the complete aftermath of the WTA Finals in Riyadh. Aryna Sabalenka Still Perched on Top of Women’s Tennis For a second year running, Aryna Sabalenka ends the season as queen of the WTA hill — battle-scarred, exasperated at times, but still the one holding the…
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The Players Want a Seat: WTA Revolt Brewing Over Grand Slam Silence
For once, the fight isn’t on a baseline — it’s at the boardroom table. The WTA’s biggest names are no longer content to rally from the sidelines as the Grand Slams decide the sport’s future. Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek, and Jessica Pegula have become unlikely teammates, demanding that tennis’s most powerful tournaments finally listen —…
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Why WTA Chief Portia Archer Was Left Frozen Out by Rybakina After Finals Triumph
A frosty exchange stole the spotlight in Cancún as Elena Rybakina refused to pose with WTA CEO Portia Archer following her WTA Finals victory — a silent protest years in the making. A Chief and a Runner-Up — but No Champion in Sight Portia Archer’s first WTA Finals as chief executive ended with an image…
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Elena Rybakina Makes History: Wins Record-Breaking Prize Money With 2025 WTA Finals Triumph
November 8, 2025 – Riyadh. From the moment they walked into the Riyadh arena, you could sense it — this wasn’t just another final, it was a grab for tennis immortality. Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina weren’t merely playing for silverware; they were swinging for history, for pride, and for the biggest single prize ever…