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Kalinina Ends Bucsa’s Run as Jacquemot Survives Friedsam Swing to Reach Limoges Final
Limoges has a way of making indoor hard courts feel like a glass box: if your timing is a fraction off, everyone can see it. On Saturday, the top seed found that out the hard way — and the home favorite had to dig deep to keep a French storyline alive. Kalinina Keeps It Clean…
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Clara Tauson’s 2025 Season Assessment: The Big-Hit Breakthrough That Finally Held
Clara Tauson didn’t so much announce herself in 2025 as reintroduce herself — louder, fitter, and with a new habit of winning the tight ones. World No.12 by October wasn’t the product of one hot week. It was built on repeated proof that her power game can survive the long season, not just the highlights.…
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Emerson Jones and Maya Joint Lead the Way as Australian Tennis Awards Spotlight the Women’s Game
Australian tennis delivered a familiar message earlier this week: the next phase is already underway — and it’s being driven by young women with momentum, clarity and results to match. At the Palladium Ballroom inside Crown Casino Melbourne, the 2025 Australian Tennis Awards recognised achievements across the sport, from grassroots to the elite level. But…
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WTA and Mercedes-Benz Strike Landmark Deal That Signals a Bigger, Bolder Future for Women’s Tennis
Andrea Petkovic didn’t bother easing the room in. She walked onto the stage at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, glanced at the assembled executives, legends and cameras, and immediately punctured the formality with her trademark dry humor. A half-mangled introduction of Roger Federer followed. Laughter did the rest. It turned out to be the perfect…
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‘It Was Very Touching’: Petra Kvitova Given Emotional Farewell at Golden Canary Gala
Petra Kvitova walked back into the Czech tennis spotlight not as a competitor, but as a legacy. Just months after her retirement, the two-time Wimbledon champion was the emotional center of the Zlatý kanár (Golden Canary) Gala in Přerov — and the room knew it. The annual ceremony, staged by Tenis magazine and the Czech…
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Lilli Tagger Keeps Moving as 2026 Comes Into Focus
Lilli Tagger has chosen motion over pause. With the season barely in the rear-view mirror, the 17-year-old Austrian has relocated to Dubai, not for a reset but for continuity, treating the weeks after her breakthrough year as an extension rather than an ending. The choice fits a player whose 2025 season recalibrated expectations. Junior success…
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Linda Noskova’s 2025: The Year She Kept Climbing, Losing Narrowly, and Learning Fast
Linda Noskova’s 2025 season wasn’t built on one incandescent fortnight. It was built on accumulation — wins stacked carefully, losses absorbed without panic, and a ranking climb powered more by repetition than revelation. By October, she had played 63 matches, reached three finals, beaten multiple top-10 players, and learned — often the hard way —…
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Svitolina’s 2025: The Year She Turned Defence Into a Deadline
Svitolina didn’t spend 2025 chasing her old peak like a nostalgia act. She played it like an accountant with a grudge — every rally audited, every loose service game filed as unacceptable, every opponent forced to keep proving they could hit the same shot twice. What made the season bite wasn’t just volume. It was…
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“Even a Junior Beats Me”: Muguruza’s Brutally Honest Take Fuels Sabalenka–Kyrgios Debate
Garbiñe Muguruza has never been one for polite myths. As anticipation builds for Aryna Sabalenka’s exhibition clash with Nick Kyrgios, the former world No.1 has cut cleanly through the noise — and the conclusion is uncomfortable for anyone chasing a fantasy matchup. With the Dubai showmatch between Sabalenka and Kyrgios being marketed as a modern-day…
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Rybakina, Vukov and the Noise: How Riad Turned a Season of Doubt into a Statement of Power
Elena Rybakina didn’t just win the WTA Finals in Riyadh. She walked straight through one of the loudest controversies of the season and left it echoing behind her. All Ways Lead to… Stefano Vukov For months, the conversation around the former Wimbledon champion had little to do with forehands or first-serve percentages. It revolved around…
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Naomi Osaka’s 2025: From Rust to Queens of New York Again
Naomi Osaka didn’t come back to make up the numbers. She came back to test a simple, ruthless question: Can my A-game still bend the sport?By the end of 2025, the answer wasn’t a throwback fairytale, but something more interesting: a season in three acts where she rebuilt her base, re-learned the grind, and reminded…
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“I knew I’d have to bust my ass, but I was ready for that” — Anisimova’s Year of Reinvention
Amanda Anisimova did not so much climb back to the top of women’s tennis as hammer her way through the ceiling. A season that began with quiet optimism ended with the most complete year of her career: two Grand Slam finals, two WTA-1000 trophies, and a return to the world’s top five. Not bad for…
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Why Mercedes-Benz Signed Coco Gauff: Strategic Pivot Behind a Power Partnership
Luxury carmakers seldom move without a clear economic motive, and Mercedes-Benz’s decision to sign Coco Gauff — already the world’s highest-paid female athlete — is no exception. The partnership arrives as Mercedes navigates shifting U.S. market conditions and intense competition with BMW. It also comes at a time when premium brands must fight harder for…
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Maya Joint Eyes 2026 Breakthrough After Stunning Rise Into WTA Top 32
Every breakout season has a moment where promise hardens into proof, and for Maya Joint that moment arrived long before the world fully caught on. The 19-year-old Australian didn’t burst onto the scene so much as glide into the elite, stringing together results with a poise far beyond her age. Now, with two WTA titles,…
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Liudmila Samsonova’s 2025: Power, Volatility and a Grass-Court Breakthrough
Liudmila Samsonova’s 2025 was the tennis equivalent of a thunderstorm: loud, streaked with brilliance, occasionally blowing itself out far too early. In a Top 40 season series where consistency is gold, she gave us something different — volatility with teeth, underpinned by one of the most explosive first strikes on the WTA Tour. Hard Courts:…
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Sloane Stephens Plots a 2026 Comeback: ASB Classic Return, Ranking Climb and a Fresh Start in Auckland
For Sloane Stephens, the next chapter begins not with fanfare but with quiet determination. After two seasons spent wrestling with injuries, inconsistency and an alarming rankings plunge, the former US Open champion has chosen Auckland as the place to reset her career. The decision signals intent: Stephens is not easing towards retirement but actively building…
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Inside the Off-Season: Keys, Pegula and Brady Reveal the Truth About Exhibitions — And the Sabalenka vs Kyrgios Showdown
Exhibitions may sit on the fringes of the tennis calendar, but for players they often reveal far more than a routine week on tour. In a refreshingly frank episode of Players Box, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula and Jennifer Brady peeled back the curtain on the off-season’s travelling roadshow — the invitations, the incentives, the unspoken…
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Victoria Mboko’s 2025: From Futures Courts to the Centre of the WTA Storm
In January, Victoria Mboko was grinding through W35s in the Caribbean, ranked in the 300s and still more promise than product. By late October, she was lifting a WTA 1000 trophy in Montreal, owning wins over Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina, Naomi Osaka and Leylah Fernandez, and sitting on the edge of the top 20.This assessment…
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From Seeded to Squeezed Out: Katie Boulter Faces Melbourne the Hard Way After Ranking Freefall
Katie Boulter used to stride into Melbourne Park like she belonged. This January, she’ll arrive with a wristband, a locker key — and no guarantee of a place in the main draw. A Season That Unravelled Too Quickly A year ago she was the No. 22 seed, a regular presence at the big events, the…
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Paolini Turns to Errani for 2026 — A Champion Partnership Reinvented for the Singles Arena
There’s a certain inevitability when a partnership works this well: eventually, it spills beyond the doubles alley. Jasmine Paolini has now made it official — Sara Errani, doubles foil, Olympic co-conspirator, and tactical savant, will join her coaching team for 2026. A natural extension of a duo that’s spent two seasons winning more than most…
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Karolina Muchova’s 2025: A Season of Almost — High Notes, Hard Lessons, and the Slam Run That Proved She Still Belongs
There were nights in 2025 when Karolina Muchova played tennis that felt almost handwritten — soft-ink touch, curved geometry, and the quiet authority of someone who sees the court half a beat earlier than everyone else. And then there were nights when even her usually velvet hands couldn’t smooth over the cracks. Her season never…
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Elise Mertens’ 2025: Two Singles Titles, a Wimbledon Crown, and the Life of a Benchmark
There are seasons where a player reinvents herself. Elise Mertens’ 2025 wasn’t that. It was something subtler: a 29-year-old tour ever-present proving she can still win singles titles, still bloody the big names, still collect the sport’s heaviest trophies in doubles — and still make seeds nervous every time her name appears in their section.…
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Sorana Cirstea Opens Up on Choosing Her Final Season — A Fresh Mindset Inspired by an 80-Year-Old Lady
Sorana Cirstea has spent nearly twenty years wrestling with the sport that shaped her. Now, at 34, she has finally made peace with an idea she once rejected outright: ending her career on her own terms. In a strikingly open conversation on the Tennis Insider Club podcast, the Romanian laid out why 2026 will be…
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Diana Shnaider’s 2025: Heavy Topspin, Heavier Chaos, and a Game the Top 10 Can’t Ignore
There are players who climb the rankings by sanding off the edges. Diana Shnaider did the opposite in 2025. She kept every sharp angle, every risk, every roar, and still managed to carve out a top-21 season built on one 500 title, a Rome surge, and a year’s worth of scorelines that read like adrenaline…
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Leylah Fernandez’s 2025: Two Big Titles, Brutal Draws, and a Lefty Who Refused to Go Away
Our 2025 WTA Season Assessments have climbed from the fringes of the Top 40 all the way to No.22 in the rankings, where Leylah Fernandez sits with a year that looks simple on paper and anything but when you trace it week by week. Two titles, big wins over Pegula and Rybakina, tight losses to…
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Why Former WTA Icons Are Quietly Powering the Tour’s New Generation of Champions
In a sport obsessed with the next big thing, it is striking how often yesterday’s stars return to shape tomorrow’s results. While male coaches still dominate the courtside boxes of the WTA Tour, a quiet but meaningful shift is underway: a growing group of former champions and household names are stepping back into the fray,…
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Ostapenko’s 2025: Hitting Through the No.1s, Stumbling Through the Rest
For most players, beating Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka in the same season would be enough to frame the whole year in gold. For Jelena Ostapenko, 2025 proved that even that kind of résumé can be buried under a landslide of early exits, retirements and scorelines that make you rub your eyes. Her tennis was…


