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2 days ago · Jul 04, 2024, 09:12 PM. SINGAPORE – International tennis action will return to Singapore in January 2025, with a Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) 250 tournament taking place at the new Kallang ...
2 days ago · World No.1 and reigning French Open champion Iga Swiatek and No.2 Coco Gauff will lead the singles event, which includes eight of the Top 10 on the PIF WTA Rankings. Led by Gauff and No.5 Jessica Pegula, the United States is the only nation with two Top 10 singles players on its women's team. Poland and Italy are the only nations with a Top 10 ...
1 day ago · The WTA Live Rankings project that the 21-year-old will leap at least 43 spots up the rankings post-Wimbledon, with a return to the top 100 likely to prove a huge boost. That will ensure she can enter the US Open directly, without needing to qualify or rely on a wildcard, and will also secure entry to more WTA-level tournaments.
2 days ago · The WTA announced today that women’s professional tennis will return to Singapore in 2025 with the staging of a WTA 250 tournament. The purpose-built Kallang Tennis Hub will host the event on indoor hard courts during the week of January 27 next year (replacing the Thailand Open in Hua Hin) and will feature a 32-player singles draw and 16-team doubles draw.
5 days ago · Alex Macpherson. WIMBLEDON -- The first upset of a Top 10 player at Wimbledon was dealt out by No.123-ranked qualifier Lulu Sun, who took out No.8 seed Zheng Qinwen 4-6, 6-2, 6-4. The result marked a number of personal and national milestones for the 23-year-old, who switched nationalities from Switzerland to New Zealand earlier this year.
5 days ago · Iga Swiatek started her 108th week at No 1 in the WTA Rankings on Monday with the top 10 unchanged ahead of Wimbledon, but the likes of Leylah Fernandez, Diana Shnaider, Caroline Wozniacki, Paula Badosa and Emma Raducanu were big winners.
2 days ago · She won her first WTA title at the Baku Cup by beating Shahar Pe'er; in doing so, Svitolina became the first teenager to win a WTA tournament since February 2012. The victory led to a jump of 32 spots in the WTA rankings, landing her at No. 49 on 29 July 2013.
