Special WTA Report
All our investigative and special WTA reports combined in one category.
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LIVE WTA Rankings 2026 Before a Ball Has Been Struck in Indian Wells
Welcome to our LIVE WTA Rankings 2026 hub — updated as of March 2, 2026. This is your go-to source for the latest WTA rankings, featuring real-time updates on the current women’s tennis standings, ranking points, and Race to the WTA Finals. We update the list weekly — and more frequently during Grand Slams and…
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Kim Clijsters Reacts to Tara Moore’s $20M Lawsuit Against WTA
The Tara Moore case refuses to stay confined to paperwork and legal briefs. It has become a fault line running through modern tennis — science on one side, strict liability on the other. Kim Clijsters, former world No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam champion, did not rush to courtroom theatrics. Instead, she called the situation…
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Give Them Wings: Judy Murray’s Stark Warning to Tennis Parents About Winning at All Costs
Judy Murray has seen enough centre courts to know where the real match is played. It is not in the rankings or the forehand technique, but in the car ride home. Speaking to the Tennis Insider Club podcast, the former Great Britain Fed Cup captain reduced modern tennis parenting to a line that cuts through…
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Alexandra Eala Buzz, Pegula’s Dubai Masterclass & Coco Gauff Serve Debate Ignite WTA Discussion
The microphones were hot — and so were the takes. In the latest episode of Nothing Major, Sam Querrey, John Isner, Steve Johnson and Jack Sock turned their focus to the women’s tour, delivering one of the most wide-ranging and surprisingly sharp WTA discussions in recent memory. From Alexandra Eala’s meteoric rise as a global…
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Iga Swiatek Psychologist Debate Intensifies After Polish Podcast — Is There Even a Problem?
In elite tennis, the margins are thin. Confidence, clarity, composure — they can determine whether a forehand lands inside the line or drifts wide. This week, Iga Swiatek’s mental game moved from private strategy to public debate. A Private Partnership, Suddenly Public Comments made on the Polish podcast Trzeci Serwis have reignited discussion around Swiatek’s…
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From Sabalenka to Rybakina: A Double Dozen Withdrawals Shake Dubai’s WTA 1000
The desert was meant to showcase brilliance. Instead, it has exposed fragility. While Mirra Andreeva, Coco Gauff and Amanda Anisimova surge forward under the Dubai lights, the 2026 Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships have quietly produced a staggering statistic: a double dozen players have withdrawn or retired from the event. Twenty-four names. Across generations. Across…
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Pegula Steps Forward as WTA Faces Calendar Reckoning
The desert heat in Dubai has exposed more than just physical fatigue. As withdrawals stacked up at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, the WTA quietly unveiled a structural response that could reshape the future of the women’s tour. Jessica Pegula — world No. 5, former world No. 3, and one of the sport’s most…
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Mirra Andreeva’s Dubai Title Defense Begins With Walkover Boost
Mirra Andreeva walked into Dubai this week and saw her own face staring back at her. On hotel walls. Around the tournament grounds. On banners celebrating last year’s champion. For the first time in her young career, the 18-year-old isn’t the rising underdog. She is the defending champion at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships…
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Elena Rybakina at the Crossroads: From Australian Open Champion to a World No.1 Chase
Elena Rybakina’s season feels suspended between two climates. On one side, the heat of Doha and Dubai, where she now lives and trains, pushing through long rallies under desert skies. On the other, the icy spectacle of the Winter Olympics, where athletes launch themselves into the unknown with fearless precision. Rybakina has been watching both…
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Dubai Director Calls for Ranking Point Penalties After Sabalenka and Swiatek Withdraw from WTA 1000
The glittering skyline of Dubai is used to hosting the biggest names in tennis. But this week, the spotlight shifted from forehands and first serves to governance and consequences. After world No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka and world No. 2 Iga Swiatek withdrew from the Dubai Tennis Championships, tournament director Salah Tahlak made a bold proposal:…
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The Door to a Serena Williams Return Is Officially Open
The greatest name of her generation is no longer just a memory — and not quite a return either. But Serena Williams is closer than she has been in years. For months, the idea of Serena Williams stepping back onto a professional tennis court felt like nostalgia masquerading as rumor. A fun thought. A social-media…
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Dementieva Raises Concerns: Is Conchita Martínez the Right Coach for Mirra Andreeva?
Mirra Andreeva’s rise has been nothing short of extraordinary. At just 18, the Russian teenager has already collected major titles, broken into the elite tier of the WTA, and proven she belongs among the game’s future stars. At the center of her ascent stands Conchita Martínez — a Grand Slam champion and one of the…
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Sara Bejlek: The Czech Left-Hander Built for the Top 50
Sára Bejlek’s Abu Dhabi run wasn’t a one-off upset story. It looked like a ranking correction in real time—built on a left-hander’s patterns, a rising return game, and a clay pedigree that’s starting to travel onto hard courts.
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WTA Career Earnings: All-Time Prize Money Leaders (Updated Feb 2, 2026)
This is the latest Career Prize Money Leaders list, compiled from the WTA’s own data but presented here on RallyHer.com. It’s the ultimate leaderboard of women’s all-time tennis fortunes. Scroll, explore, and search to your heart’s content: type your favourite player’s name, your country’s code, or even a forgotten champion — and see where they…
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“We’ll talk about it alongside Serena”: John Isner crowns Elena Rybakina’s serve as all-time great material
Few voices carry more authority when it comes to serving than John Isner — and when the former ATP ace speaks, the tennis world listens. On the latest episode of the Nothing Major Podcast, Isner delivered perhaps the strongest endorsement yet of Elena Rybakina’s serve, placing it firmly among the greatest the women’s game has…
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“Why Not the Women?”: Australian Open Director Floats Best-of-Five Debate for WTA at Majors
While the men dominated headlines with two of the longest semifinal matches in Australian Open history, tournament director Craig Tiley posed a question that immediately reignited debate across the tennis world: why not the women? As Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev battled for five hours and 27 minutes, and Novak Djokovic required more than four…
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“People to Throw and Choke”: Inside Aryna Sabalenka’s Inner Circle Ahead of Australian Open Final
As Aryna Sabalenka prepares to walk onto Rod Laver Arena for yet another Australian Open final, the world No.1 does so backed by one of the tightest and most unconventional support teams in women’s tennis. At the heart of that group stands Jason Stacy, Sabalenka’s performance coach — a figure as central to her rise…
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Power, Initiative and Fine Margins: Roddick and Clijsters Break Down the Sabalenka–Rybakina Australian Open Final
As Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina prepare to meet once more on the sport’s biggest stage, two former world No.1s have weighed in on what could decide the 2026 Australian Open women’s final. Andy Roddick and Kim Clijsters, speaking on the Served with Roddick podcast, outlined why this rematch may hinge on initiative, first-strike tennis…
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Emma Raducanu Splits With Francisco Roig Ahead of Cluj Comeback
Emma Raducanu has ended her partnership with Francisco Roig, marking yet another coaching change in a career still defined by the long shadow of her US Open triumph in 2021. The decision comes just days before the former world No.10 is set to return to competition at the Transylvania Open in Cluj-Napoca. Roig, a long-time…
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Australian Open 2026 WTA Semi-Finals Preview: Power, Pressure and the Numbers That Matter
The women’s singles draw at the Australian Open reaches its sharpest point on Thursday, January 29, with two semi-finals that pit dominance against resilience and momentum against consistency. Aryna Sabalenka faces Elina Svitolina in a rivalry shaped by tension and control, while Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula meet in a clash that has remained perfectly…
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“The lack of compassion and empathy is beyond devastating”: Danielle Collins Speaks Out as Few American Tennis Voices Do
Danielle Collins has never been especially interested in playing it safe. This week, the former Australian Open finalist again stepped outside the usual lines, becoming the most outspoken American tennis player to address the social and political climate in the United States during this year’s tournament. In a series of Instagram stories, Collins shared an…
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What is the Australian Open’s Extreme Heat Policy?
The Australian Open’s Extreme Heat Policy is the tournament’s safety system for dealing with Melbourne’s most predictable wildcard: brutal January heat — and it was triggered on Saturday, January 24, as temperatures surged at Melbourne Park. It sets out when organisers can add extra recovery time for players, shift matches onto roofed arenas, and, in…
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Jana Fett Provisionally Suspended in ITIA Anti-Doping Case
Jana Fett has spent the opening weeks of 2026 as a tennis absentee — now we know why. On Friday, January 23, 2026, the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) confirmed that the 29-year-old Croatian has been provisionally suspended under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme after an in-competition test produced three prohibited substances. For a player who…
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Home of the Brave: Potapova Pushes Tie-Break Queen Sabalenka to the Edge
In the land of the brave, Big Science — and its little sister, Big Data — has already delivered its verdict: when sets tighten and walls appear, Aryna Sabalenka breaks them. Across the 2025 season she lost just three tiebreaks, winning 22 to set a record-breaking standard. This year, on another Melbourne afternoon built for…
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“Ten Days Without a Racket Isn’t Enough”: Swiatek Lays Bare the Physical Toll of an Eleven-Month Season
Iga Swiatek keeps winning, but she is not pretending it comes easily. After another efficient Australian Open performance, the world No. 2 spoke less about trophies and more about fatigue, using her Melbourne press conference to underline just how unforgiving the modern tennis calendar has become. Swiatek brushed aside Marie Bouzkova 6-2, 6-3 in the…
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Cirstea Fumes Over Osaka’s Conduct After Frosty Net Exchange in Melbourne
Naomi Osaka won the match, but she did not win over her opponent. Sorana Cirstea left the court visibly unhappy after a tense Australian Open second-round clash, offering a frosty embrace and lingering words at the net that suggested this was about more than just a three-set defeat. Osaka’s 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 victory carried her…
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Oksana Selekhmeteva Brings Badosa Back to Earth as Australian Open Exit Triggers Ranking Slide
Paula Badosa’s Australian Open comeback was brought back to earth with a thud. Oksana Selekhmeteva, playing with freedom and nerve, stunned the former world No. 2 in straight sets, delivering one of the early shocks of the tournament and triggering a steep rankings slide for the Spaniard. The 6-4, 6-4 defeat ends Badosa’s Melbourne run…
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The Price of January Glory: Why the Australian Open’s True Cost Won’t Go Away
Every January, Melbourne glows. The Australian Open fills the city with sunshine, soundtracks, and sold-out sessions, reinforcing its claim as a global sporting capital. Yet beneath the forehands and fireworks sits a quieter, more uncomfortable reality: the tournament has become one of Victoria’s most expensive long-term public commitments — and one still only partially understood.…
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Anisimova Gets Down to Business in Melbourne, Then Lets Her Personality Breathe
Amanda Anisimova opened her Australian Open with the brisk efficiency of a contender who knows exactly why she is here — and with just enough humanity to remind everyone she is still enjoying the ride. A 6–3, 6–2 dismissal of Simona Waltert took barely an hour, but it revealed both the steel and looseness of…
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Raducanu Survives the Wait, Then Sets the Tone in Melbourne
Emma Raducanu spent the days before her Australian Open opener talking about compromise. Late arrival. Late start. Limited preparation. Modest expectations. By the time she left Rod Laver Arena on Sunday night, she had turned all of that into a controlled 6–4, 6–1 win over Mananchaya Sawangkaew — and a reminder that disruption does not…