WTA Tour News

Vekic Making Most Of Her Opportunity At Courmayeur

COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 29, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Croatia’s Donna Vekic has shown much resilience in her run to the Courmayeur Ladies Open quarterfinals this week in the the northwest Italian Alpine resort town of Courmayeur, at the foot of Mont […]

No Rest For Li, She Just Keeps Winning At Courmayeur

COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Just three days after Ann Li of the United States won her first WTA tour-level singles title at the Tenerife Ladies Open in the Spanish Canary Islands, the 48th-ranked American played her debut […]

Ann Li Earns Maiden WTA Tour Trophy In Tenerife

TENERIFE, October 24, 2021 Ann Li captured her maiden title on the WTA Tour by lifting the trophy of the inaugural Tenerife Ladies Open, a WTA 250 hard-court event hosted by the Abama Tennis Club in Guía di Isora. The 21-year-old […]

Badosa Wins Historic Indian Wells Final Over Azarenka

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Regardless of who won Sunday’s BNP Paribas Open women’s singles title match, between two-time champion Victoria Azarenka and first-time WTA 1000 finalist Paula Badosa, it was going to be historic. In Badosa’s […]

Badosa Making A Believer Of Herself Every Match, Every Point

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 17, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Paula Badosa has arrived at the moment of the biggest title match in her budding tennis career. On Sunday, the 23-year-old Spaniard who was born in New York City but lives and […]

A Jump For Joy: Hsieh And Mertens Know What It Takes To Win

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 17, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Elise Mertens of Belgium have teamed together for just eight tournaments. Their partnership grew out of two others – Hsieh and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, […]

Jabeur’s Breakthrough Season Just Keeps Getting Better

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 15, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) In a year filled with milestones for Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur, on Thursday night at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif., she added a few more to her breakthrough season. The […]

Peak Satisfaction Adds Up For Norrie At Indian Wells

INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 15, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) As the top half of the men’s singles draw took Stadium 1 court for their quarterfinal-round matches on a sunny Thursday afternoon at the BNP Paribas Open in the outhern California palm […]