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Iva Jovic Makes Guadalajara Her Own Again, Defending Her Crown at 18
Iva Jovic vs. Peyton Stearns — Guadalajara Open 2026 Final Match Report At 17, Iva Jovic won her first WTA title in Guadalajara. Twelve months later, at 18, she returned to the same tournament and refused to give it back. Jovic defeated fellow American Peyton Stearns 6-4, 6-2 in Saturday’s Guadalajara Open final, successfully defending…
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São Paulo Surprise: Quevedo and Podoroska Spring Semifinal Shocks to Reach the Final
The São Paulo Open started the weekend with three seeded players still standing and Paula Badosa carrying the biggest name in the draw. By Saturday evening, none of that mattered. No. 7 seed Kaitlin Quevedo first survived Anna Blinkova in a three-set semifinal that could hardly have been closer. Then unseeded Nadia Podoroska (as pictured)…
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Eva Lys Saves Seven Set Points Before Sao Paulo Loss Exposes a Difficult 2026 Slide
Eva Lys began 2026 ranked No. 39 and carrying the label of Germany’s highest-ranked woman. Eight months later, the picture looks very different. Tamara Korpatsch has moved ahead of her. So has 39-year-old Tatjana Maria. And Lys’s 7-5, 6-2 defeat to Argentina’s Nadia Podoroska in the Sao Paulo round of 16 offered a fairly brutal…
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Iva Jovic’s Mexican Adventure Is Taking Her to New Career Heights
Magdalena Frech vs. Iva Jovic — Guadalajara Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report Iva Jovic’s trip through Mexico is starting to look like much more than another good week. The 18-year-old American dismantled Magdalena Frech 6-2, 6-1 in Guadalajara, controlling the match on serve, dominating the return games and never allowing the Pole to turn eight…
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Kayla Day Saves Four Match Points Before Samsonova Escapes in Guadalajara
Kayla Day vs. Liudmila Samsonova — Guadalajara Open 2026 Round-of-16 Match Report Kayla Day spent nearly three hours refusing to disappear. She recovered from 0-4 in the deciding set, dragged Liudmila Samsonova into a final tiebreak and then survived four match points with the finish seemingly seconds away. One remained. This time Day had the…
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Sloane Stephens Finds Her Nerve Twice to Knock Out Janice Tjen in Guadalajara
Sloane Stephens vs. Janice Tjen — Guadalajara Open 2026 Round-of-16 Match Report At 33 and ranked No. 169, Sloane Stephens is not supposed to be making life this difficult for seeded players. Janice Tjen found that out the hard way in Guadalajara. Stephens survived two sets in which almost nothing separated them, recovered from pressure…
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With Fireworks Off Both Wings, Elena Rybakina Beats a Battling Sabalenka for the 2026 US Open Title
Elena Rybakina vs. Aryna Sabalenka — US Open 2026 Women’s Singles Final Match Report It took only a handful of points inside Arthur Ashe Stadium to understand what kind of final this was going to be. The crowd was far more evenly divided than it had been for Coco Gauff’s semifinal. The tennis was not…
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Elena Rybakina Slows the Key Game Down, Then Shuts Coco Gauff Out of the US Open Final
Elena Rybakina vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report For a long time, Elena Rybakina could not quite solve Coco Gauff’s serve. So she did something unexpected. She slowed down. Gauff had come out firing, particularly behind a second serve whose placement repeatedly wrong-footed the new World No. 1. She took the…
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Once Sabalenka Stepped It Up Against Pegula, There Was No Looking Back
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Jessica Pegula — US Open 2026 Semifinal Match Report For nearly an entire set, Jessica Pegula gave Aryna Sabalenka very little to work with. Then Sabalenka stepped up the pressure. The first break of the match arrived at the last possible moment, with Pegula serving at 5-6. Sabalenka took the set 7-5,…
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Mirra Andreeva’s Tiebreak Tricks Backfire as Coco Gauff Books Another US Open Semifinal
Mirra Andreeva vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report For most of two sets, Mirra Andreeva had found ways to make Coco Gauff uncomfortable. Then she found a tactic that looked clever until Gauff refused to cooperate. Andreeva had taken the opening set 6-2 and carried the second all the way into…
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No Individual Training Until 17, Ten Years Later Elena Rybakina Is World No. 1
Elena Rybakina vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report. Elena Rybakina spent much of her junior career sharing courts rather than receiving individual training. She did not begin working seriously one-on-one until around the age of 17. On Wednesday in New York, that unconventional route reached the top of women’s tennis. Rybakina…
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Jessica Pegula Finds Her Forehand Through Emma Navarro’s Storm to Reach the US Open Semifinals
Jessica Pegula vs. Emma Navarro — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report Emma Navarro arrived in this quarterfinal carrying serious form and, for more than a set, she looked capable of taking the whole evening with her. She made the sharper start, broke quickly, absorbed the noise of the occasion and repeatedly forced Jessica Pegula…
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Aryna Sabalenka Fights Off Linda Noskova’s Charge by Going for Broke in the Decider
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Linda Noskova — US Open 2026 Quarterfinal Match Report For a few games in the deciding set, Aryna Sabalenka hit the panic button. Then, almost without warning, she stopped pressing it. Linda Noskova had pushed the world No. 1 to the edge, turned a set down into a genuine quarterfinal charge and…
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Coco Gauff Shows the Present, Iva Jovic the Future in High-Quality US Open Battle
Coco Gauff vs. Iva Jovic — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report American tennis had reasons to feel good on both sides of the net. Coco Gauff produced one of her most complete performances of this US Open to beat Iva Jovic 6-1, 6-4 and reach the quarterfinals. The score, particularly in the opening set,…
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Elena Rybakina Leaves Naomi Osaka With Nowhere to Go and Moves One Win From World No. 1
Naomi Osaka vs. Elena Rybakina — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Naomi Osaka was present for this one. For long stretches, that was about as much influence as Elena Rybakina allowed her. Rybakina produced one of her most complete performances of the tournament to win 6-1, 6-4, serving superbly, striking her backhand with its…
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Mirra Andreeva Finally Breaks Through at the US Open as Potapova’s Injury Brings a Sad Finish
Mirra Andreeva vs. Anastasia Potapova — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Mirra Andreeva has finally pushed beyond the barrier that had stopped her in New York every year. But the moment came with an uncomfortable ending. Andreeva recovered from a set down to beat Anastasia Potapova 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, reaching her first US Open…
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Queen Zheng Is Back: Again From 0-5 Down to the US Open Quarterfinals as Swiatek Unravels
Iga Swiatek vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Qinwen Zheng has now done it twice at this US Open. Against Madison Keys, she came back from 0-5 in the deciding set. Against Iga Swiatek, she did it again from 0-5 in the opening set. This time there was no third set…
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Emma Navarro Wins the Backhand Battle Hands Down to Beat Anna Kalinskaya at the US Open
Emma Navarro vs. Anna Kalinskaya — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Emma Navarro and Anna Kalinskaya spent much of this match testing each other from the backhand side. Navarro won that battle with flying colors. The American was cleaner, more patient and far less wasteful in the exchanges that gradually shaped a 6-4, 6-2…
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Jessica Pegula Keeps Her US Open Mileage Low With Straight-Set Win Over Sorana Cirstea
Jessica Pegula vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Jessica Pegula has reached the US Open quarterfinals without spending much unnecessary time getting there. Sorana Cirstea made this one considerably less tidy than the score suggests, particularly once both women began attacking each other’s service games, but Pegula kept finding the better…
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Linda Noskova Solves the Kostyuk Cube to Turn Match-Point Agony Into US Open Victory
Linda Noskova vs. Marta Kostyuk — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Linda Noskova had already discovered how difficult Marta Kostyuk was to finish. At 5-4 in the second set, match points came and went on Noskova’s serve. Minutes later, the set was gone. At 5-4 in the decider, the same danger returned. This time…
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Aryna Sabalenka Survives an Awkward US Open Afternoon as Taylor Townsend Lets Her Chance Slip
Aryna Sabalenka vs. Taylor Townsend — US Open 2026 Fourth-Round Match Report Aryna Sabalenka never really found her best tennis. Taylor Townsend never made her pay for it. That was the strange rhythm of a 6-4, 6-3 fourth-round match in which the two players rarely played well at the same time. When one settled, the…
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Iva Jovic Takes Over the Road to the US Open Final After a Three-Set Hitfest With Alexandra Eala
Iva Jovic vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has changed hands. Alexandra Eala carried it through the first two rounds. Iva Jovic now takes over after beating her doubles partner and friend 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 in a match that never once felt like an…
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From Qualifier to Olympic Champion in Seven Games: Qinwen Zheng Stuns Madison Keys
Madison Keys vs. Qinwen Zheng — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For five games in the deciding set, Madison Keys looked untouchable. Then she looked unable to stop anything. Keys had already blown through the opening set 6-1, and when she raced to 5-0 in the third, this match appeared finished in all but…
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Maya Joint Holds Her Nerve as Williams Sisters Let 5-0 Lead Slip at US Open
Serena Williams and Venus Williams vs. Maya Joint and Hao-ching Chan — US Open 2026 Doubles Maya Joint has already spent much of 2026 proving that famous names do not particularly bother her. She did it again on Friday night. The 20-year-old Australian and Taiwan’s Hao-ching Chan recovered from 5-0 down in the deciding 10-point…
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Emma Navarro Finally Gives the US Open Its First Big Upset With Straight-Sets Win Over Muchova
Emma Navarro vs. Karolina Muchova — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report For two rounds, the US Open women’s draw had stubbornly refused to fall apart. The leading seeds kept winning. The Top 8 all reached the third round. Genuine shocks were remarkably difficult to find. Then Emma Navarro beat world No. 7 Karolina Muchova…
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Taylor Townsend Saves Seven Set Points, Loses the Set Anyway, Then Knocks Out Diana Shnaider
Taylor Townsend vs. Diana Shnaider — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Taylor Townsend survived seven set points in one game. Then she lost the set anyway. What followed said considerably more about her night. After watching a 5-3 second-set lead disappear and eventually losing a tense tiebreak, Townsend reset almost immediately and played a…
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At 36, Sorana Cirstea Beats Jasmine Paolini and Pushes Her Career High Even Higher
Jasmine Paolini vs. Sorana Cirstea — US Open 2026 Third-Round Match Report Sorana Cirstea is 36 years old and virtually up to No. 15 in the world. That may be the most remarkable part of her US Open. The Romanian continued an extraordinary late-career rise by beating No. 19 seed Jasmine Paolini 6-3, 6-3, reaching…
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Alexandra Eala Moves the Road Forward With a Clean Win Over Oliynykova at the US Open
Oleksandra Oliynykova vs. Alexandra Eala — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report The Road to the US Open Final has a clear rule. We begin with one first-round match, then follow the winner into her next match, and then do the same again until one player reaches the championship match in New York. Alexandra Eala…
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Coco Gauff Fights Off a Cold and Paula Badosa in a Nervy Arthur Ashe Night
Paula Badosa vs. Coco Gauff — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Coco Gauff had two problems to deal with inside a lively Arthur Ashe Stadium. One was Paula Badosa. The other could be heard as soon as Gauff began speaking after the match. The American sounded distinctly congested during her on-court interview, but avoiding…
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Five Match Points Vanish in the Pit as Madison Keys Escapes Anna Bondar
Madison Keys vs. Anna Bondar — US Open 2026 Second-Round Match Report Five match points. Anna Bondar had five of them. She had spent three sets dragging Madison Keys into exactly the kind of match the American would rather avoid, changing height, pace and rhythm with drop shots, moonballs, awkward forehands and anything else that…