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- Twenty Years Later, Cirstea Chooses Her Final Chapter
- Diana Shnaider’s 2025: Heavy Topspin, Heavier Chaos, and a Game the Top 10 Can’t Ignore
- Leylah Fernandez’s 2025: Two Big Titles, Brutal Draws, and a Lefty Who Refused to Go Away
- Why Former WTA Icons Are Quietly Powering the Tour’s New Generation of Champions
- Anastasia Potapova Swaps Russia for Austria – A Flag Change With Real Shockwaves for Women’s Tennis
- Ostapenko’s 2025: Hitting Through the No.1s, Stumbling Through the Rest
- Vondrousova Calls Out Late-Night Doping Test — A Wimbledon Champion Draws a Line on Privacy
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Osaka Swerves Auckland for the United Cup — and Leaves a Hole the Size of a Grand Slam Champion
Naomi Osaka has never been one for half-measures, and her latest scheduling twist has left Auckland feeling a little like a jilted host waiting at the airport terminal. The ASB Classic thought it had landed a genuine star turn; instead, Osaka has packed her bags for the United Cup, taking her revived form — and…
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Why Raducanu’s Revival Has Sky Sports Buzzing
Emma Raducanu has spent four years trying to outrun the shadow of New York, but 2025 has finally offered a different kind of storyline — one written in smaller steps, steadier choices and far fewer medical updates. Her rise back to No 29 in the world, and once again Britain’s top-ranked woman, isn’t flashy. It’s…
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Iva Jovic’s 2025: The American Teenager Who Didn’t Wait Her Turn Wants Sabalenka in 2026
Iva Jovic began 2025 ranked No.191, another promising American teenager on the edge of something but not yet in the room. She ended it at No.35 — a rocket-fuel rise delivered by a 17-year-old who never once behaved like she was supposed to wait in line. Born in December 2007, she played a season written…
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Lauren Davis Announces Retirement After Injury Battles and Two-Decade Journey on the WTA Tour
Lauren Davis never needed height to cast a long shadow. The 5’2” American, who spent a decade defying every assumption about size and ceiling, has called time on a career shaped by nerve, nuance and no shortage of stubborn resilience. Lauren Davis Walks Away on Her Own Terms — Heart, Grit and a Farewell Years…
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Loïs Boisson’s 2025: The French Meteor No One Saw Coming
Loïs Boisson began 2025 ranked No.230 — a talented 22-year-old, but an anonymous name on the ITF treadmill, grinding for points far from any spotlight. By May she had slipped to No.513, an almost unbelievable number for a player who would finish the year inside the Top 40. When she stepped onto the clay of…
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Daria Kasatkina’s 2025: A Season That Began at No.9… and Fell Straight Through the Floor
Daria Kasatkina opened 2025 ranked No.9 in the world — a position she had spent years chiselling her way toward. A ranking earned through guile, patience, problem-solving and an uncanny ability to make elite hitters play her match instead of theirs. But by October, the number next to her name was No.37. One of the…
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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…
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From Evert to Rybakina — Every WTA Finals Champion in History (1972–2025)
It all comes down to this. After a week of blazing serves, brutal rallies, and late-night drama under the Riyadh lights, the 2025 WTA Finals have reached their crescendo. Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina — two of the most commanding ball-strikers in the modern game — faced off for the season’s ultimate crown and the…
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Sabalenka and Rybakina Clash for Biggest Prize Money in Women’s Tennis History at 2025 WTA Finals in Riyadh
Eight came to Riyadh. Nine participated. Two remain. Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina — the immovable forces of the 2025 WTA season — will meet under the desert lights with everything still to prove and nothing left to hide. Both have swept through their groups unbeaten. Both have stared down danger in the semifinals. And…
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Sabalenka Survives Anisimova’s Fury — Now Faces Rybakina for 2025 Riyadh Supremacy
Aryna Sabalenka has stared down pressure all year — but few storms have blown quite like this one. Under the Riyadh lights, the World No.1 was forced to dig deeper than she has all week, outlasting Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 3–6, 6–3 to book her place in the WTA Finals championship match against Elena Rybakina. For…
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WTA Finals 2025: Results (Updated) & Schedule of Play
The WTA Finals 2025 — the grand conclusion to the women’s tennis season — are set to light up Riyadh from November 1–8, 2025, bringing together the sport’s eight best performers for one final showdown of the year. Defending champion Coco Gauff returned to the desert aiming to retain her crown after her thrilling triumph…
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Relive the Thrilling Rybakina vs Pegula Battle – Full WTA Finals 2025 Semi-Final Match Report
Jessica Pegula came into the first semi-final of the 2025 WTA Finals looking every bit the composed contender. The American, backed by an equally partisan crowd and impeccable form, faced Elena Rybakina, the group-stage standout who had breezed through with three straight wins. The winner of this clash would go on to face either Aryna…
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WTA Finals Semifinal Preview & Prediction: Sabalenka and Anisimova — Enough Non-Fossil Power to Light Riyadh’s Grid
It’s not just a semifinal. It’s a collision of voltage. When Aryna Sabalenka and Amanda Anisimova meet under the Riyadh floodlights on Friday night, expect enough baseline energy to make the Saudi capital glow. Two of the game’s cleanest hitters — one a reigning World No. 1, the other the only debutante in this elite…
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WTA Finals Semifinal Preview & Prediction: Rybakina and Pegula — The Tour’s Most Reinvigorated Forces Collide in Riyadh
Nine seasons, nine champions — and still no repeat winner. The year-end stage in Riyadh will once again crown someone new, after Coco Gauff and Iga Swiatek both bowed out before the semifinals. What remains is not just a clash of styles, but a collision of resurgence — two players who have rebuilt their seasons…
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Sabalenka Silences Gauff in Riyadh — Ruthless Return Sends ‘Iron Aryna’ Into WTA Finals Semis
Aryna Sabalenka’s hunt for glory in Riyadh rumbled on with a statement win over Coco Gauff, dismantling the World No.3 by 7–6(5), 6–2 to seal her place at the top of the group and into the WTA Finals semifinals. For Gauff, however, the defending champion’s campaign stops here. With Jessica Pegula having cruised past Jasmine…
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Drunk, Seemingly Polish Fan Derails Swiatek — Season Ends on a Sour Note
It was meant to be a straightforward night for Iga Swiatek — one set up, one foot in the semifinals, and total control. Instead, a “drunk fan,” shouting apparently in Polish between serves, managed to throw the world No. 2 off her rhythm — and out of the WTA Finals. The man, apparently intending to…