Special WTA Report
Explore RallyHer’s Special WTA Reports — in-depth women’s tennis analysis, player features, rankings insight, coaching updates, comeback stories, and major narratives from across all four majors and the WTA Tour.
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Where Are the Upsets? US Open 2026 Sends Almost All of Its Biggest Names Into Round Three
The first two rounds of a Grand Slam are supposed to thin the field. At this US Open, they have barely touched the top of it. Aryna Sabalenka, Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula, Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Linda Noskova, Karolina Muchova and Iga Swiatek are all safely into the third round. So are Elina Svitolina, Amanda…
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Qualifying Was Only the First Test: Five US Open Qualifiers Are Already Through, Ten Are Gone
Three victories got them into the US Open. For most of the qualifiers, the fourth proved considerably harder. Of the 16 women who fought their way through qualifying, five have already won again in the main draw, 10 have been eliminated, and Francesca Jones is still trying to become the sixth after taking the opening…
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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 long, shifted as dramatically or carried as much significance as…
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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 meant the opposite: after cruising through her first two matches,…
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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 a curious contradiction attached to her name. Her last two…
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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 to changing her career two years ago. And then the…
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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. Gauff may be the No. 4 seed, but her US…
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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 of any woman in the top four. The first few…
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Live WTA Rankings 2026: Latest Standings Following Cincinnati’s Final
Welcome to our LIVE WTA Rankings 2026 hub — updated as of August 24, 2026, after the Cincinnati Open 2026 final. 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 try to update the list weekly…
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US Open 2026 No. 1 Race: Rybakina Could Take Top Spot Without Even Playing
Cincinnati is over, Coco Gauff has the trophy, and the battle for the WTA World No. 1 ranking has suddenly become one of the biggest stories heading into the US Open. Aryna Sabalenka remains on top, but Elena Rybakina, Jessica Pegula and Gauff can all finish New York as World No. 1. The extraordinary part…
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US Open 2026 Mixed Doubles: Confirmed Teams, Qualifying Field & Schedule
Last updated August 27, 2026, following the conclusion of the mixed doubles tournament and Iga Swiatek’s withdrawal. The US Open 2026 Mixed Doubles field has taken its final shape, and it looks considerably different from the original 29-team entry list. Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic, Jessica Pegula and Taylor Fritz, and Diana Shnaider and Casper…
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The Aryna Sabalenka Slump Narrative Has a Hard-Court Problem
There is one fairly substantial problem with the idea that Aryna Sabalenka is enduring a bad 2026 season. On hard courts, she is 22-3. That is an 88.0% winning percentage, the highest Sabalenka has recorded at this point of any season since our comparison begins in 2018. Her dominance ratio sits at 1.44, virtually level…
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PHILTA’s Tennis Etiquette Guide Is Not Just About Alex Eala Fans
Alex Eala’s rise has brought something tennis always claims to want. New fans. New voices. New national pride. New people in the stands who may not have grown up with the sport’s strange little rituals: when to clap, when to stay quiet, when to move, when to sit, when to put the phone away, and…
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Roland Garros Junior Champion Alisa Oktiabreva Joins Czech Republic After Growing Up in Prague
Alisa Oktiabreva was born in Russia, but almost her entire life in tennis has been shaped somewhere else. The 17-year-old Roland Garros girls’ singles champion has obtained Czech citizenship and now represents the Czech Republic. On paper, her nationality change may look like another entry in the growing list of Russian-born players switching countries. Her…
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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 are. The sport wouldn’t just be healthier. It would look…
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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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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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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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Paula Badosa Finds Romanian Warmth and Top-100 Hope in Iasi Comeback Win
Paula Badosa arrived in Iasi needing wins, ranking points and a clearer path back toward the Grand Slam main draws. She also found something warmer than a standard WTA 250 comeback stop. The Spaniard opened her Iasi campaign with a sharp 6-3, 6-1 win over fourth seed Anhelina Kalinina, extending her clay-court winning streak to…
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Gauff Can Chase Pegula as Muchova, Kostyuk and Noskova Turn Wimbledon Into a Rankings Fight
The Wimbledon semi-finals are not only about Centre Court, pressure and a place in the final. They now carry a serious live WTA rankings story too. Coco Gauff, Karolina Muchova, Marta Kostyuk and Linda Noskova are the last four women standing at Wimbledon 2026, and each of them has something different at stake before the…
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Mertens Plays the Match of Her Wimbledon Life as Keys and Noskova Break Open Rybakina’s Quarter
Elena Rybakina is out. Amanda Anisimova is out. And suddenly, the most loaded quarter of the Wimbledon women’s draw belongs to Madison Keys, Linda Noskova, Marie Bouzkova and Elise Mertens. That is a huge rewrite of a section that once looked built for an Anisimova-Rybakina collision. Instead, Keys powered past Anisimova 3-6, 6-2, 6-3, Noskova…
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Alexandra Eala Stuns Swiatek as Krueger and Kostyuk Turn Svitolina’s Old Section Upside Down
Iga Swiatek’s nightmare Wimbledon draw finally got her. The No. 3 seed is out after a 7-6(9), 6-2 defeat to Alexandra Eala, who turned one of the most demanding sections of the women’s draw into her own breakthrough lane. Swiatek had already survived Taylor Townsend and handled Karolina Pliskova, but Eala asked a different question…
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Rybakina Rolls On Returning as Anisimova Survives Kenin in Wimbledon’s Most Loaded Quarter
This quarter was supposed to be heavy and now it is. Elena Rybakina made her second-round match look almost too easy, beating Caty McNally 6-1, 6-2 to keep the bottom of the section under firm control. Amanda Anisimova, by contrast, had to fight through a full American scrap, edging Sofia Kenin 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(3). That…
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Swiatek Sharpens Up and Eala Lurks as Their Section Turns Into a Wimbledon Free-for-All
Iga Swiatek’s nightmare draw has already changed shape. The No. 3 seed moved into the third round with a clean 6-1, 6-3 win over Karolina Pliskova, removing one of the most dangerous grass names near her section. That was exactly the kind of result Swiatek needed after being pushed to three sets by Taylor Townsend…
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Swiatek Survives Tricky Wimbledon Opener as Svitolina Falls and Paolini Escapes
Iga Swiatek’s draw looked brutal before the first ball was struck. After one round, it already looks even wilder. Swiatek survived Taylor Townsend 6-1, 2-6, 6-3 in a tricky opener that had exactly the kind of grass-court danger everyone feared. But around her, the quarter started to shake. This was not a quiet first round.…
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Rybakina and Anisimova Land in the Wildest Wimbledon Quarter of the Draw
This quarter is bananas. There is no polite way around it. Amanda Anisimova is the No. 6 seed. Elena Rybakina is the No. 2 seed. On paper, that points toward a heavyweight quarter-final between two of the cleanest ball-strikers in the women’s game. In reality, this section looks like a hazard course from the first…
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Swiatek Lands Another Brutal Grand Slam Quarter as Svitolina, Kostyuk and Serena Crowd Her Wimbledon Path
Iga Swiatek does not get many soft Grand Slam draws. This Wimbledon quarter keeps that theme alive. The No. 3 seed has landed in a section that feels unusually heavy for a top player: Taylor Townsend in the first round, Karolina Pliskova or Tereza Valentova nearby, Serena Williams and Maya Joint in the same mini-section,…
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Gauff Gets the Kindest Landing as Pegula’s Wimbledon Quarter Carries More Edge
Coco Gauff must have a guardian angel on her shoulder when it comes to Grand Slam draws. That is the first reaction to this Wimbledon quarter. The No. 7 seed sits in the lower half of the section, and while no Grand Slam path is ever empty, her early route looks far kinder than the…
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Sabalenka and Andreeva Share a Wimbledon Quarter Packed With Traps, Wildcards and Big Names
The first quarter of the Wimbledon women’s draw has the shape tournament organizers dream about and top seeds quietly hate. Aryna Sabalenka sits at the top. Mirra Andreeva sits at the bottom. If both win four matches, they meet in the quarter-finals, with a Wimbledon semi-final place on the line. That is the headline route.…