WTA News, Results & Stats
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Yulia Putintseva Turns the Match Twice and Sends Belinda Bencic Out of the US Open
Yulia Putintseva vs. Belinda Bencic — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Belinda Bencic was a set and two games up, and still could not get past Yulia Putintseva. That feels entirely appropriate for Putintseva. The 31-year-old Kazakh, one of the tour’s most expressive and…
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Elena Rybakina Gets the Win, but Thea Frodin Gives New York a Name to Remember
Thea Frodin vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Elena Rybakina was supposed to be the story. Coming off the injury that ended her Cincinnati run, the virtual World No. 1 needed to show that the ankle would withstand a Grand Slam…
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Linda Noskova Flips a 2-5 Hole Into a Landslide at the US Open
Katie Volynets vs. Linda Noskova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For seven games, Katie Volynets had the Wimbledon champion exactly where she wanted her. Then the match disappeared. Volynets led 5-2 in the opening set before Linda Noskova reeled off five consecutive games…
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Seven Set Points Vanish in the Night as Sofia Kenin Ends Venus Williams’ US Open Return
Venus Williams vs. Sofia Kenin — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report For a few minutes, Sofia Kenin looked as though she might be heading toward exactly the kind of unraveling that a player short on confidence fears most. Venus Williams had dragged herself back…
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Seven Break Points, No Breaks: Leylah Fernandez Shuts Zhang Out at the US Open
Zhang Shuai vs. Leylah Fernandez — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Zhang Shuai got seven looks at Leylah Fernandez’s serve. She converted none of them. That was the quiet cruelty of Fernandez’s 6-3, 6-2 opening-round victory at the US Open. Zhang had opportunities to…
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Kamilla Rakhimova Holds Her Nerve as Krejcikova Unravels at the US Open
Kamilla Rakhimova vs. Barbora Krejcikova — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Barbora Krejcikova hit almost three times as many winners as Kamilla Rakhimova. She also hit herself out of the US Open. Rakhimova absorbed the Czech’s heavier ball, stayed steadier when the match tightened…
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Jessica Pegula Starts the US Open by Making Ruse Work for Everything
Jessica Pegula vs. Elena-Gabriela Ruse — US Open 2026 First-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula did not overwhelm Elena-Gabriela Ruse with one spectacular weapon. She did something considerably more suffocating. For much of their first-round match at the US Open, the Romanian had to work extraordinarily…
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Chris Evert vs. Martina Navratilova: Every Match of the Greatest Rivalry in Women’s Tennis
From their first meeting in 1973 to their 80th and final clash in 1988, RallyHer revisits every match between Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova — the rivalry that changed women’s tennis. Evert vs. Navratilova Head-to-Head at a Glance Few rivalries in tennis history lasted as…
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Diane Parry Defies the Numbers to Beat Elise Mertens for First WTA Title
Diane Parry vs. Elise Mertens — Monterrey Open 2026 Final Match Report Diane Parry picked quite a place to win her first WTA singles title. The 23-year-old from Nice, a former junior world No. 1 whose one-handed backhand has long made her one of the…
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The Mexican Crowd Wanted More Tennis, and Elise Mertens Gave Them Exactly That in Monterrey
Nikola Bartunkova vs. Elise Mertens — Monterrey Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report At 4-2 in the second set, Nikola Bartunkova had five separate game points to move within one game of the Monterrey final. Elise Mertens refused every invitation to leave. The 20-year-old Czech, whose…
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Qinwen Zheng Makes It, Andreescu Does Not, and the US Open Draw Delivers a Cruel Qualifier Twist
The qualifying tournament is over. Sixteen women have survived three rounds and are now officially part of the 2026 US Open main draw. For Qinwen Zheng, that meant completing the job after being pushed to three sets in her qualifying final. For Bianca Andreescu, it…
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Monterrey Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
Last updated on August 30, following the Monterrey 2026 final between Elise Mertens and Diane Parry. The Monterrey Open 2026 WTA 500 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from Mexico. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as…
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Diane Parry Saves Three Set Points, Sends Clara Tauson Out and Breaks New Ground in Monterrey
Clara Tauson vs. Diane Parry — Monterrey Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report Clara Tauson was three points from forcing a deciding set. Diane Parry never gave her one. From 3-5 down in the second set, the Frenchwoman erased three set points, swept the final four…
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Three in a Row? Aryna Sabalenka’s US Open Women’s Section and Main Draw Bracket Analysis
Aryna Sabalenka has spent the last two US Opens doing something nobody else in the women’s draw could stop. Now she gets the chance to make it three. The World No. 1 arrives in New York chasing a third consecutive US Open title, but with…
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Jessica Pegula Lands the Most Open US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis With a Major Chance
Jessica Pegula could hardly have asked the US Open draw for much more. The No. 3 seed arrives in New York only four days removed from the Cincinnati final and with another chance to make a serious run at the Grand Slam that came closest…
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Coco Gauff Lands a Brutal US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis After Cincinnati
Coco Gauff could hardly arrive in New York with more momentum. She has just won Cincinnati, finished the tournament by sweeping Jessica Pegula 6-2, 6-4 and suddenly looks much closer to the player who won the US Open three years ago. Then the draw arrived.…
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Elena Rybakina Gets the Toughest US Open Women’s Section: Main Draw Bracket Analysis With No. 1 at Stake
A week ago, Elena Rybakina was unable to finish her Cincinnati Open quarterfinal. Now she has arrived in New York as the No. 2 seed, with the World No. 1 ranking closer than it has ever been and arguably the most difficult US Open draw…
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Georgia Is Perfect, Britain Is Flying and Four of 20 Americans Remain in US Open Qualifying
Sixty-four women entered the second round of US Open qualifying. Thirty-two are now one victory away from the main draw, and the national picture has changed considerably since the opening round. The United States still has the largest representation in absolute numbers, with four players…
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Serena and Venus Williams Finally Get Their Grand Slam Reunion in New York
Wimbledon was supposed to bring them back together. Serena Williams’ knee had other ideas. Cincinnati finally got the sisters onto the same side of the net again. Now comes the reunion that matters most. Serena and Venus Williams have received a wildcard into the 2026…
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Czech Republic Steals the Show in US Open Qualifying as 14 Americans Fall
The United States and the Czech Republic each produced six winners in the opening round of US Open qualifying, but they got there in very different ways. That curious contrast told much of the story across the first three days in New York. Seven Americans…
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France’s Alizé Cornet Has Seen Enough: ‘It is no longer the US Open mixed doubles’
Alizé Cornet was never particularly interested in blending quietly into the background. During a career that took her to No. 11 in the world, the Frenchwoman brought plenty of personality to the court, and her meetings with Serena Williams rarely passed without some degree of…