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- 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
- From Evert to Rybakina — Every WTA Finals Champion in History (1972–2025)
- Sabalenka and Rybakina Clash for Biggest Prize Money in Women’s Tennis History at 2025 WTA Finals in Riyadh
- Sabalenka Survives Anisimova’s Fury — Now Faces Rybakina for 2025 Riyadh Supremacy
- WTA Finals 2025: Results (Updated) & Schedule of Play
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Riveting Rybakina Runs Riot in Riyadh as Swiatek Crumbles in WTA Finals Showdown
Riyadh – Both players entered this second round-robin WTA Finals clash brimming with confidence, having breezed through their opening matches with minimal resistance. Iga Swiatek and Elena Rybakina had each dominated their first opponents, conceding few games and setting up a high-stakes encounter between two of the tour’s cleanest strikers — a duel promising power,…
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Mirra Andreeva Reveals the Real Reason Behind Her Tokyo Withdrawal
Mirra Andreeva has set the record straight about her withdrawal from the Tokyo Open — a decision that ultimately cost her a place at the 2025 WTA Finals. The 18-year-old Russian clarified that her absence had nothing to do with visa issues, contrary to speculation that spread on social media following a comment from Australian…
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LIVE WTA Rankings 2025 – Updated Weekly & Historical Archive
Welcome to our LIVE WTA Rankings hub for 2025. Here you’ll find the most up-to-date women’s tennis standings, updated weekly (and even more often) as the season and major tournaments unfolds. We’re also building a complete archive of past rankings, so you can track player progress month by month and revisit key shifts throughout the…
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Live WTA Rankings After 2025 Hong Kong, Chennai,and Jiangxi Open Finals
As of November 3, 2025, the live WTA rankings capture the complete aftermath of the Jiangxi Open, Hong Kong Open, and Chennai Open, showcasing how the Asian swing reshaped the season’s closing stretch. Aryna Sabalenka sits unchallenged atop the rankings with 9 870 points, comfortably clear of Iga Swiatek on 8 195. The Pole retains…
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Aryna Sabalenka Opens WTA Finals Campaign with Statement Win over Jasmine Paolini
In Riyadh’s gleaming new arena, Aryna Sabalenka didn’t just start her WTA Finals campaign — she set the tone for the entire Steffi Graf group. The world No. 1 brushed aside Italy’s Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-1 in her opening round-robin match, sending an early warning to group rivals Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff. Commanding from…
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19-year-old Mboko Ends Her Rollercoaster 2025 Season With Another Trophy in Hong Kong
Victoria Mboko didn’t just find her form again—she rediscovered her fire. After a stretch of frustrating early exits following her summer surge in Canada, the teenage prodigy stormed through the Hong Kong Open to lift her second WTA title of the year, sealing her spot among the sport’s elite. The 19-year-old battled past Spain’s Cristina…
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Anna Blinkova Strikes Down Teenage Tagger at the Money End to Claim 2025 Jiangxi Open Crown
Anna Blinkova, the Russian known to many as the woman who survived and won the longest tiebreak ever played against Elena Rybakina, reminded the tennis world in Jiangxi that she’s more than just a trivia legend. Less known is her knack for thriving in finals — she captured her first WTA title at the Transylvania…
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Iga Swiatek Rocks the Boat in Riyadh — Still the One to Beat at the WTA Finals?
Riyadh — If there was any doubt about Iga Świątek’s intent at the WTA Finals, she dispelled it within an hour. The world No. 2 delivered a clinical 6-1, 6-2 dismantling of Madison Keys (match stats here) to open her campaign, playing with the focus and precision that have become her trademark. From the first…
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Victoria Mboko Leads the Next Generation as She Returns to a WTA Final in Hong Kong
At the WTA 250 Hong Kong Open — one of the final stops of the season — teenage sensation Victoria Mboko finds herself back in a championship match. The 19-year-old Canadian, who stunned the tennis world with her historic WTA 1000 triumph at the Canadian Open, will face Cristina Bucsa, a 27-year-old Spaniard appearing in…
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Rybakina Crushes Anisimova to Open WTA Finals Campaign With Commanding Win
Elena Rybakina began her WTA Finals journey in emphatic fashion, sweeping aside Amanda Anisimova 6–3, 6–1 in under an hour. The 2022 Wimbledon champion looked razor-sharp from the first ball, controlling rallies with precision and barely allowing her opponent a foothold in the match. The victory lifts Rybakina to second place in her group, just…
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2025 Chennai Open Results WTA250 (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Chennai Open marked the tournament’s second edition and India’s return to hosting a WTA event for the first time since 2022, when the inaugural edition ended a three-year break in professional women’s tennis in the country. The event had to compete with the Hong Kong Open and Jiangxi Open, which were being played…
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2025 Jiangxi Open Results WTA250 (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Jiangxi Open in China has recently moved from Nanchang to Jiujiang. This WTA 250 tournament is scheduled this year at the same time as the new Chennai Open and the Hong Kong Open between October 27 and November 2. Top seeds in the field include fresh Guangzhou champion Ann Li, Viktorija Golubic, and…
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Portrait Lilli Tagger: The Austrian Teenager Born Just Miles from Jannik Sinner Who’s Now Making Noise on Tour
Drive south from Lienz, across the Austrian-Italian border into Innichen (San Candido), and you’ll find a region that has quietly become one of the most fertile strips of tennis territory in Europe.Here, at roughly 1,100 metres above sea level, kids still ski before they serve. The lungs grow strong. The winters are long. And now,…
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2025 Hong Kong Open Results (Updated) Including Qualifiers
The 2025 Hong Kong Open took place from October 27 to November 2. Although it shared the same WTA 250 category as the Chennai Open and the Jiangxi Open, it attracted the strongest field of the three, despite all having been scheduled in the same week. Top seeds in the field included Tokyo Champion Belinda…
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Madison Keys: “Enjoying the Climb” After Her Breakthrough Grand Slam Season
As Madison Keys prepares for the WTA Finals, she reflects on her transformative 2025 season — a year that brought her first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open and a renewed appreciation for the journey. The 30-year-old, who last played the season finale in 2016, has evolved personally and professionally since her early 20s.…