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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 Fernandez beat Mirra Andreeva 6-1, 6-4, and if that scoreline…
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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 for the American and a genuine breakthrough for the Russian…
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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 place. Only two seeds inside the top 16 have lost…
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Canadian Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Canadian Open 2026 WTA 1000 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules and daily updates from Toronto. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts at Sobeys Stadium. Last updated on August 8, after all women’s third-round matches. Scroll down to see how the…
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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 knee injury from a fall at Queen’s Club in June…
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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 reserved for whichever singles match sells the most tickets. This…
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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 winning the first seven times in 2026. Toronto was only…
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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 Toronto opener. It won’t make headlines on its own, but…
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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 Bejlek did what qualifying runs tend to produce: she found…
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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 that will make life uncomfortable for more than one seed.…
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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 a run through Washington that included wins over Magdalena Frech,…
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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 already forced her out of Wimbledon and the Canadian Open.…
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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 Tour debut into a title during one of the most…
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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 her first WTA singles title after the final spilled over…
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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 6-4 and Eala had moved ahead 2-1 in the second.…
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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. Amanda Anisimova is dangerous enough to ruin almost anyone’s draw.…
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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 is no soft checkpoint. She is the player who beat…
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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 3, after the women’s final between Kristina Liutova and Darja…
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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 August 3, after the women’s final between Jessica Pegula and…
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Lilli Tagger Survives Daria Snigur’s Best Punches to Win the Prague Open 2026 Title
Daria Snigur had the set in her hands. Twice. Lilli Tagger did not care. The Austrian came back from 5-2 down in the first set to beat Snigur 7-6(3), 6-2 and win the Prague Open 2026 title, capping a run that the tournament’s own build-up had already called a final nobody expected. Tagger, ranked outside…
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Tamara Korpatsch Defeats Anna Bondar to Become Hamburg’s First German Champion Since Steffi Graf
Tamara Korpatsch did not only win a WTA title in Hamburg. She gave the tournament back a German champion. The 31-year-old, born in Hamburg and shaped by the clay-court habits of a player who knows how to suffer through long rallies, beat Anna Bondar 6-3, 6-3 in the Hamburg Open 2026 final. It was her…
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Lilli Tagger Silences Prague’s Czech Chorus as Snigur Sets Up a Final Nobody Expected
The Prague Open had spent the week looking like a Czech tennis festival with a draw attached. Marie Bouzkova was there. Barbora Krejcikova was there. Tereza Valentova was still there in the semi-finals. Dominika Salkova had made noise from qualifying. The home crowd had every reason to expect at least one Czech player in Sunday’s…
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Lanlana Tararudee Shakes Prague’s Czech Party as Bouzkova and Krejcikova Keep the Favorites Moving
The Prague Open Round of 16 looked, on paper, like a Czech control room. Marie Bouzkova was the top seed. Barbora Krejcikova was the second seed. Sara Bejlek and Tereza Valentova were still in the draw. Dominika Salkova was carrying qualifier momentum. Nikola Bartunkova had the kind of home-crowd setup that can make a young…
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Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula Show the American Floor Is Still High as Czech Wimbledon Cash Takes Over the WTA Money Race
Wimbledon did not only hand Linda Noskova a trophy. It rewired the WTA prize money race. The Czech champion now leads the 2026 WTA prize money standings after a grass swing that turned a strong season into a life-changing one. Noskova’s Wimbledon title, added to her Berlin Ladies Open success, pushed her to $6.02 million…
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Hamburg Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Hamburg Open 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from Germany. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor clay courts at Hamburg’s historic Rothenbaum venue. Last updated on July 26, following the final between Tamara Korpatsch and Anna Bondar.…
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Yuliia Starodubtseva Should Not Have Had to Put Her Family’s War Trauma on Display
Yuliia Starodubtseva should never have been pushed into explaining her love for Ukraine like this. The Ukrainian player was criticized after attending Daria Kasatkina’s wedding, and the reaction grew large enough that Starodubtseva felt forced to publish a long personal statement. In it, she made clear that her support for Ukraine has never wavered, that…
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Prague Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Prague Open 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from Czechia. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts in Prague. Last updated on July 26, following the final between Lilli Tagger and Daria Snigur. Scroll down to…
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Barbora Krejcikova Turns Athens Into a Lesson in How to Win the Points That Hurt
Maria Sakkari had the crowd, the early lead and the more explosive tennis. Barbora Krejcikova had the colder hand. The Czech beat Sakkari 7-6(5), 6-3 to win the Athens Open 2026 title, denying the Greek a home triumph in the inaugural edition of the tournament. It was a final between two former Top 5 players…
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Athens Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Athens Open 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from Greece. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor hard courts in Athens. Last updated on July 20, following the women’s final between Barbora Krejcikova and Maria Sakkari. Scroll down…
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Iasi Open 2026 WTA Results, Draw, Scores & Schedule
The Iasi Open 2026 WTA 250 tournament centre provides live scores, match results, draws, schedules, and daily updates from Romania. Follow every round from qualifying to the final as players compete on the outdoor clay courts in Iasi. Last updated on July 20, after the women’s final between Mayar Sherif and Paula Badosa. Scroll down…