WASHINGTON, September 13, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The season-ending WTA Finals have a temporary home for 2021. On Monday, in a statement posted on its website, the WTA announced that Guadalajara, Mexico will host the the WTA Finals the week […]
WASHINGTON, August 29, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) No. 2 seed Anett Kontaveit of Estonia and unseeded challenger Irina-Camelia Begu from Romania staged their first meeting in a WTA singles final, where they faced off for the title of the inaugural […]
WASHINGTON, August 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Some of the names are more familiar than others like Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu and Maxime Cressy of the United States. We know them from ATP Challengers and ITF World Tennis Tour events […]
WASHINGTON, August 27, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Things are looking up for Poland’s Magda Linette, both on and off the court. She’s found reason to celebrate her wins on the WTA Tour and in her personal life. First, on the […]
WASHINGTON, August 24, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Racquet, the New York-based literary quarterly that celebrates the art, ideas, style and culture surrounding tennis, is out with its latest edition, Issue No. 17, which is a very special effort that showcases […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 22, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) It should come as no surprise that World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty found herself playing for the title of the Western & Southern Open in the Cincinnati suburbs on Sunday afternoon. After […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 22, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Russia’s Andrey Rublev had never taken a set let alone win a match against countryman Daniil Medvedev in four previous meetings. That all changed in his fifth attempt at the Western & […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 21, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) What a difference a year makes. Just ask the Czech Republic’s Barbora Krejcikova, who a year ago was ranked 118th among WTA singles players and shut out from direct entry into the […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 20, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) With the five active players with the most Grand Slam titles – Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic (men) and Serena Williams and Venus Williams (women) – all missing from this […]
MASON, OHIO/WASHINGTON, August 19, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) On a day in which nine of the WTA’s top 10 players were in action at the Western & Southern Open in Mason, Ohio, in the last major tuneup before the US […]
