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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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.…
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Bianca Andreescu Gets Through Wimbledon Qualifying as Americans and Three-Set Survivors Stand Out
Wimbledon qualifying is never just a list of names moving from one draw to another. It is three days of survival tennis, nervous scorelines, bruised legs, ranking pressure, second chances and players trying to arrive at the main draw with enough rhythm, but not too much damage. This year’s women’s qualifying event had all of…
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Tatjana Maria Is Turning Grass Into a Different Sport Again
Tatjana Maria does not play grass-court tennis like she is trying to join the modern argument. She plays as if she has left the argument altogether. That is why this run deserves more than a routine Eastbourne match report. At 38, with a one-handed backhand, a game full of slices, changes of height, soft hands…
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Wimbledon Must Do Better After Ladies’ Qualifying Information Goes Missing
A Grand Slam Should Not Leave Fans Searching for the Women’s Draw For a tournament that prides itself on tradition, precision and polished presentation, Wimbledon’s handling of its 2026 ladies’ qualifying information has been surprisingly poor. Qualifying is not a side note. It is where careers shift, dreams open and main-draw places are earned the…
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Aryna Sabalenka’s Complete Grass Record Shows the Strange Wimbledon Gap in Her Career
Aryna Sabalenka’s grass-court story has never been simple. The surface should suit her, at least in theory. The serve is huge. The first strike is bigger than almost anyone’s. The return can take time away from opponents who need rhythm. When the ball stays low and quick, Sabalenka can make tennis feel brutally short. And…
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Robin Montgomery Wins First WTA Title at Libéma Open After Qualifying Run in Rosmalen
Robin Montgomery did not enter the Libéma Open as the obvious champion. She entered it through qualifying. By the end of the week in Rosmalen, the 21-year-old American had survived a three-set qualifying battle, beaten a top seed, moved through the grass draw with growing authority and then stood as champion after Barbora Krejcikova withdrew…
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Conchita Martínez and Mirra Andreeva Turned a Coaching Bond Into Roland Garros History
Conchita Martínez has always understood what softness can do to power. She knew it as a player, long before coaching boxes became part of her life. She knew it when she won Wimbledon in 1994 with patience, timing, variety and that elegant one-handed backhand, beating Martina Navratilova on grass when Spanish tennis was still mainly…
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Only Wimbledon Can Stumble Over the Maja Chwalińska Wildcard No-Brainer
Wimbledon may soon face the kind of problem that sounds too absurd to be real. What happens if the French Open champion is not even in the Wimbledon main draw? That is the strange little trap now forming around Maja Chwalinska, whose Paris fairytale has already gone far beyond tennis romance. The Polish qualifier began…
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Serena Williams’ British Return Comes With a GLP-1 Question Tennis Cannot Ignore
Serena Williams has always known how to command a stage. Now, at 44, she is preparing to do it again in Britain, where her expected return at Queen’s Club has given tennis the kind of story it never quite stops craving: a champion of almost mythical stature walking back onto the grass. Serena Comes Back…
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Amélie Mauresmo Says Clay-Court Technology Is Not Ready as Roland Garros Defends Human Calls
Roland Garros has a very modern problem wrapped inside its oldest surface. Clay leaves marks. Tennis now loves technology. Players want certainty. Fans want instant proof. And somewhere in the middle stands Amélie Mauresmo, trying to explain why the French Open is not yet ready to hand the whole thing over to machines. The Roland…
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The French Open Story Everyone Skips: The Qualifiers Who Stole the First Round
Roland Garros has room for royalty, of course. Aryna Sabalenka opened with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Jessica Bouzas Maneiro. Coco Gauff finished Taylor Townsend off 6-4, 6-0. Victoria Mboko, still carrying that wonderful teenage electricity, swept Nikola Bartunkova aside 6-1, 6-2. That is what the top of the game is supposed to look like.…
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Paris Started Throwing Luggage Into the Street but Swiatek, Rybakina and Anisimova Kept Driving
Roland Garros never needs much time to become itself. A few hours of first-round tennis, a little loose clay underfoot, a few players carrying too much form or too much doubt, and suddenly the women’s draw has already started shedding names. Iga Swiatek did what Iga Swiatek usually does in Paris. Elena Rybakina moved as…
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French Open 2026 Women’s Super Tie-Break Rules: What Happens at 6-6 in the Final Set?
For anyone watching the women’s draw at the French Open 2026 and wondering what happens if a match goes all the way to 6-6 in the final set, the answer is simple: there is no old-style advantage set anymore. At Roland-Garros, a women’s singles match is still played as the best of three sets. But…