WTA News, Results & Stats
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Alexandra Eala Is Filling Stadiums by Herself, and She’s Back Under the Toronto Lights Sunday Against Bencic
Try this thought experiment for a second. Imagine two or three more players in women’s tennis who could sell out a Centre Court session in the second or third round on their own. Not on the strength of their seeding. Just because of who they…
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Alexandrova Enters God Mode in Toronto, Sabalenka the Victim Once Again
Ten months ago, Ekaterina Alexandrova was playing the best tennis of her career even reaching a career high. Then, slowly and without any single obvious cause, it started slipping away. Tonight in Toronto, it stopped slipping, and it did so in spectacular fashion. Alexandrova beat…
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Diana Shnaider Gets Her Revenge, and Jessica Pegula’s Schedule May Be the Reason Why
Six days ago, Jessica Pegula beat Diana Shnaider in a Washington semifinal, 7-5, 6-4. She then went on to a DC Open final, and lost it in a third-set bagel. Today, Shnaider got the rematch, and this time the result flipped completely. Shnaider won 6-3,…
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Leylah Fernandez Keeps Getting Written Off, and Keeps Making Fools of the People Who Do It
There is a particular kind of tennis player who only seems to exist in the space between what the ranking says and what actually happens on the court. Leylah Fernandez has spent most of 2026 living in that space. Today, she made it pay. Leylah…
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Qualifier Alina Korneeva Knocks Out Iva Jovic and Reaches the Last 16 in Toronto
Iva Jovic arrived in Toronto seeded 13th, sitting at a career-high ranking, and left in straight sets against a player who had to win three matches just to get into the third round. Alina Korneeva beat Jovic 6-3, 6-4, a result that’s a genuine setback…
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Toronto Has Been Seeded Players’ Territory, and the Qualifying Class Has Paid For It
Sixteen players fought through qualifying to reach the main draw in Toronto. Two of them are still standing. That collapse isn’t really about the qualifiers doing anything wrong. It’s about how kind this draw has been to the players seeded into it in the first…
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Leylah Fernandez Carries Canada’s Hopes Into a Trap Game Against Mirra Andreeva
Victoria Mboko isn’t walking through that door. The defending champion is an 18-year-old wildcard no more. A year ago she shocked her way to the title by beating Coco Gauff, Elena Rybakina and Naomi Osaka in her own backyard. She will not defend it. A…
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Toronto Rearranges Its Schedule to Put Eala and Venus Williams on Centre Court
Centre Court in Toronto has a pairing on it that didn’t exist a month ago. The tournament rebuilt its entire evening schedule to make room for it. Alexandra Eala and Venus Williams will open their doubles campaign on the main stage. That slot is usually…
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Rybakina Beats Kasatkina in Three, But Can’t Shake Her Second-Set Problem
Elena Rybakina won two sets against Daria Kasatkina in Toronto. She just couldn’t win them in a row. Rybakina advanced 6-3, 5-7, 6-4. It’s a scoreline that’s become familiar this season, and not always in a good way. She’s now dropped the second set after…
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Aryna Sabalenka Answers Her Wimbledon Exit With a Straight-Sets Win in Toronto
A first-round loss to Naomi Osaka at Wimbledon would read as a minor blip for most players. For the world No. 1, it briefly interrupted one of the more remarkable seasons the tour has seen in years. Sabalenka beat Moyuka Uchijima 6-3, 6-3 in her…
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Iga Swiatek Beats Sara Bejlek After Surviving an Outrageous 21-Minute, 32-Point Game in Toronto
For nine games in a row, this didn’t look like a contest at all. Iga Swiatek bageled Sara Bejlek in the first set, then raced out to 3-0 in the second. Nine straight games. Not a hint of the slump she carried into Toronto. Then…
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Can Swiatek and Rybakina Reverse Their Slide in Form in Toronto?
Top seeds at a WTA 1000 event get one luxury the rest of the draw doesn’t: a bye straight into round two. What they don’t get to choose is who’s waiting for them once they arrive. Round one in Toronto delivered a wave of results…
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Jessica Pegula Is Playing Some of the Best Tennis of Her Career but Would Still Rather Talk About the Balls
Jessica Pegula is into her fourth final of 2026, a season that already includes a WTA 1000 title in Dubai. Ask her how it feels and she’ll happily tell you. Ask her about the tennis balls, and you get something closer to exasperation. Fresh off…
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Emma Raducanu Is Missing the US Open, but the Bigger Story Is How Little Tennis She Has Played All Year
Emma Raducanu will not defend anything at Flushing Meadows this year, because there is nothing left of her season to defend it with. The 23-year-old has confirmed she will miss the US Open after a stress fracture in her right leg, the same injury that…
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Kristina Liutova Wins the First WTA Tournament She Ever Played
Sixteen-year-old qualifiers do not walk into their first WTA Tour event and leave with the trophy. That is not how this sport works. Kristina Liutova did exactly that anyway, beating Darja Vidmanova 1-6, 6-1, 6-3 to win the inaugural Memphis Classic. She turned her WTA…
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Alexandra Eala Wins the Biggest Title of Her Life, and the Philippines’ First Ever WTA Trophy
Jessica Pegula had a set and a rain delay working in her favor. Alexandra Eala had eight straight games left in her, and she used every one of them. Eala beat the third-ranked Pegula 4-6, 6-4, 6-0 to win the D.C. Open on Monday, claiming…
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Pegula and Eala Left Waiting as Rain Pushes the D.C. Open Final Into Monday
Jessica Pegula and Alexandra Eala started the D.C. Open final on Sunday. They will have to finish it on Monday. A long, messy day of rain, thunder and lightning in Washington forced the women’s final to be postponed after Pegula had taken the opening set…
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Gauff, Pegula and Anisimova Bring American Heat to a North American Swing Loaded With WTA Pressure
The WTA season reaches North America with the rankings packed tight, the US Open drawing closer, and three American women already sitting inside the top 10. Jessica Pegula is trying to keep control of the American lead. Coco Gauff is close enough to chase it.…
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Kristina Liutova Looks Like More Than a Memphis Surprise After Beating Maya Joint
Kristina Liutova’s first week on the WTA Tour was already strange enough. Then she beat Maya Joint. The 16-year-old Russian qualifier continued one of the most eye-catching runs of the summer by defeating Joint 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 in the Memphis Classic Round of 16. Joint…
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Memphis Classic 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Memphis Classic 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from the United States. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts in Memphis, Tennessee. Last updated on August…
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Washington DC Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Washington DC Open 2026 WTA 500 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from the United States. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts in Washington, D.C. Last updated on…