Anastasia Potapova was formally warned by the WTA for her actions. The 21-year-old said there was no political motivation behind her decision to wear a Spartak Moscow shirt. She said she was surprised by the fact that there was not any political intention.
Ukrainian tennis player Lesia Tsurenko pulled out of her third-round encounter. The world no. 81 later cited a panic attack as the reason for her withdrawal. She said that a disturbing conversation with WTA CEO Steve Simon is what triggered the panic attack.
Martina Navratilova was diagnosed with throat and breast cancer in 2010. She said she was forced to postpone plans to adopt a child with her wife. The cancer was first discovered in early November during the WTA finals.
The 2023 Indian Wells men's and women's singles events are equal for both ATP and WTA tours. Carlos Alcaraz and Elena Rybakina took home huge cheques for each event. A total of $8,800,000 was up by more than 5% of last year's total.
Iga Swiatek said she had a panic attack after her conversation with WTA CEO Steve Simon. He said the organization condemns Russia's actions and is doing its best to support Ukrainian players. Russian tennis star Anastasia potapova entered the court wearing a Russian football club Spartak Moscow shirt.
Women's tennis association (WTA) is doing a good job supporting players from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko withdrew from her match with Belarusian Sabalenka at Indian Wells due to what she said was a panic attack triggered by a chat with WTA chief executive Steve Simon about tennis’s response to Russia’s invasion.
Jelena Ostapenko will not end her career after a stunning decision made by the Latvian Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Education and Science. She is regularly competing on the WTA tour since Russian and Belarusian athletes have been allowed to continue competing as neutrals.
Iga Swiatek has called for more support to be offered to players on the women's tour. She said the attack was triggered by a chat she had with WTA chief executive Steve Simon about tennis 's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine Belarus has been a key staging ground for a special military operation.
Coco Gauff is the 'next great' american tennis star. The 18-year-old has already won 10 WTA titles. She will face either Amanda Anisimova or Linda Noskova in the round of 32.
The partnership will see CVC secure a 20% stake in the newly formed WTA business entity. The partnership aims to generate better commercial growth in women's tennis. Key focus areas include providing fans with greater access to the sport.
Elisabetta Cocciaretto knocked out former australian open champion Sofia Kenin. The 21-year-old is on the verge of a maiden WTA title. She will face american qualifier Lauren Davis in the final.
Iga Swiatek will take on world no. 68 Jule Niemeier in the first round of the 2023 Australian Open on Monday. The german was the outright best player on the WTA tour last year.
Iga Swiatek was the authentic ruler of the WTA women's tour in 2022. She gave her two Slams, the Roland Garros and the us open. Her season will start from the United Cup, a brand new event for nations.
The 2023 United Cup is a mixed-gender event between the ATP and WTA. It involves world’s best tennis players such as Rafael Nadal, Iga Swiatek, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Jessica Pegula, Alexander Zverev, Paula Badosa, Matteo Berrettini and Maria Sakkari. The competition derives similarities from the Hopman Cup, with a single pair of athletes representing their country.
Nick Kyrgios pulled out of the joint ATP and WTA event with an injury. The world number 22 won the men's doubles title and finished runner-up to Novak Djokovic in the final.
The world number 22 pulled out of the joint ATP and WTA event on friday. The 27-year-old said he had been unaware of his withdrawal until the announcement. Ajla Tomljanovic pulls out of her match against Britain's Harriet Dart.
The opening day of the inaugural edition of the united cup saw high-octane action in Perth, Sydney and Brisbane. The ties will be comprised of two ATP and two WTA singles matches and one mixed doubles match. Stefanos Tsitsipas shone for Greece as he battled back from a set down to beat bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
The United Cup 2023 - ATP and WTA's joint-event will mark the beginning of the Tennis season in 2023. The tournament will take place across three different Australian cities - Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. Players from 18 different countries will be seen in action while each city will feature two groups of three countries competing in a round-robin format.
The ATP and WTA's joint event will kick off the 2023 tennis season. The tournament will be held across three Australian cities between December 29 to January 8. Players from 18 countries will compete in a mixed-team competition.
Nick Kyrgios withdraws from the inaugural edition of the united cup. The 27-year-old is ranked 22nd in the world and reached this year's final. He was set to lead australia in the joint ATP and WTA event.
Jessica Pegula congratulated coach David Witt on being the 2022 WTA Coach of the Year. Pegula jokingly jokingly took all the credit for her coach's recognition. The 28-year-old Pegula enjoyed the season of her life this year as she became a WTA 1000 champion for the first time in her life.
Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis will star in the upcoming Netflix tennis series titled Break Point. The first five episodes will cover everything from the Grand Slam Down Under to the French Open. The series will focus equally on players from both the ATP and WTA tours to remain gender-neutral.
Wimbledon has banned Russian and Belarusian players from the 2022 edition of the Grand Slam. WTA took immediate action against Wimbledon for the ban, imposing a harsh fine on it: £620,000 against the LTA and 207,000 pounds against the famous club that hosts the event. British Tennis Federation did not like the hard line taken by the ATP and the WTA.
Iga Swiatek is the TENNIS.cOm (and surely everyone else’s) WTA Player of the Year. The winner of two Grand Slam titles and eight tournaments overall (twice as many as anyone else) is the runaway WTA No. 1. Her occasional panic reaction when trapped at the net (she reflexively flings her arms in the air) triggered a bogus Internet controversy.
In the summer, the WTA fined the LTA and AELTC $1 million each for banning Russian and Belarusian players from competing in British grass-court tournaments. The LTA is 'deeply saddened' over the ATP's reaction. UK culture secretary Michelle Donelan says tennis tours are determined to be outcasts.
Caroline Garcia finished inside the WTA Top 5 for the first time in four years. The 29-year-old was sidelined by an ankle injury that had left her off the court for two months. Garcia finished the year at No. 74 and on barely anyone’s tennis radar. Garcia had been tipped for greatness by Andy Murray as a teenager.
Storm Hunter (nee Sanders) broke into the world's top 10 and won her first Grand Slam doubles title during an outstanding 2022 season. The 28-year-old won three WTA doubles titles to break into the top 10. She is one of seven nominees for the prestigious Newcombe Medal in 2022.
Britain’s Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) has been fined £820,000 ($1.49 million) by the ATP on Wednesday for their ban on Russian and Belarusian players. The said players were barred from competing across five events, namely Queen's Club, Eastbourne, Surbiton, Nottingham and Ilkley; a decision that cost them a £164,018 ($200,284) fine per event. The All England Club also decided to ban them from Wimbledon, which led the ATP and WTA to strip the tournament of its ranking points. The LTA say they are considering their response to the sanction.
Serena Williams retired from tennis last September after 73 WTA singles titles. Serena and her daughter Olympia play a board game with cards with questions. The US star is ranked 31st in Forbes ranking of the highest paid athletes in the world. She is also on the Forbes list of the richest self-made women in the United States.
The 2022 season officially ended after the WTA Finals. Polish no.1 Iga Swiatek was crowned the athlete of the year. Caroline Garcia and Elena Rybakina were nominated for best doubles and best return. The WTA have released a list of the best players and coaches nominated to win recognition.
Roger Federer says the demanding schedule on the ATP and WTA circuits can have a negative impact on the mental health of players. The 20-time grand slam champion retired from the sport in September after a career that spanned almost a quarter of a century. Federer was a month shy of his 40th birthday when he played his last competitive singles match.
The WTA have published its list of nominees for various awards that are being awarded at the end of each year. The main award is the WTA Player of the Year Award and there are several players nominated for it. Swiatek, Jabeur, Gauff, Pegula, Garcia and Rybakina are among those nominated.
WTA world number 39 Sorana Cirstea attended the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Deji Olatunji. She posted footage from the match on her Instagram Stories and used the word goat to describe Mayweather. Sorana also weighed in on Simona Halep's doping scandal.
Tennis journalist Ben Rothenberg lauded the organizers of the Billie Jean King Cup for their efforts in reducing the pay gap between the ATP and the WTA. The prize money is now equivalent to what the men received in the Davis Cup. The Swiss team - comprising Belinda Bencic, Jil Teichmann, Viktorija Golubic, Simona Waltert - beat the Czech Republic 2-0 in the semifinals and beat Australia, a seven-time champion, with the same scoreline in the final.
Cori Gauff made her WTA Finals debut in Fort Worth, Texas, last week. She lost each of her three singles matches and went 0-3 with Jessica Pegula in the doubles event. The 18-year-old is hoping to bounce back from a rought WTA finals showing.
A star-studded line-up was revealed for each of the 16 teams. Teams have been picked based on top six WTA ranking-qualified nations and top five combined entry countries. The winner of each group will head to the united cup Final Four in Sydney.
Caroline Garcia beats aryna Sabalenka 7-6(4) 6-4 to win the WTA finals in Fort Worth, Texas. The 29-year-old has won four titles, made the semi-finals of the U.S. Open and will now rise to a career-high number four.
Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens beat defending champions Barbora Krejcikova and Katerina Siniakova 6-2, 4-6, 11-9 to win the doubles title in the WTA Finals on Monday night. It was just the fourth loss of the season for the Czech duo, which was trying to become the seventh doubles team to defend a WTA finals championship.
Daria Kasatkina lost 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(5) to Caroline Garcia in a nail-biting thriller in Fort Worth, Texas. She said she was disappointed with the outcome but had to look at it objectively. 2022 has been her best year on the tour.
Coco Gauff, Paula Badosa, Madison Keys, Jessica Pegula, Sloane Stephens, and Leylah Fernandez confessed for Tennis Channel what are the scariest and spookiest things about tennis. Gauff dressed up as Moon Knight for Halloween, had her Halloween costume removed from Instagram the first time she posted them.
Caroline Garcia beats Cori Gauff 6-4 6-3 to kick off her WTA finals campaign. The world no 6 has beaten the american in the last two matches. She also beats Gauff in this year's quarterfinals.
Iga Swiatek is competing at this week's WTA finals even in Fort Worth, Texas. But next week, she won't be representing Poland at the Billie Jean King Cup finals in Glasgow. A month ago, she pulled out of the billie jeans King Cup Finals as she called out the WTA.
The world no. 5 shared the mental health journeys of WTA players in a five-part video series called The Real Me. She admitted that there had been times when she had called her mother and sobbed over the phone because she didn't want to be there. The players featured in earlier episodes of the series include Danielle Collins, Paula Badosa, Leylah Fernandez and Sloane Stephens.
WTA CEO Steve Simon said that despite repeated requests, China has not yet provided any assurances about the investigation of Peng Shuai's alleged sexual assault. Shuai said in a post on the Chinese social media platform Weibo that former Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli forced her to have sex with him. She later recanted her claims in a carefully crafted interview with French sports magazine L'Equipe in February 2022.
Iga Swiatek says it was confusing to hear Simona Halep failed a doping test. The world no 1 has reached nine finals this year and won two grand Slam titles. She is preparing for the WTA finals.
Coco Gauff vs Caroline Garcia will play in a round-robin match at the WTA finals on tuesday. The 18-year-old has reached the final eight in her last three tournaments. She won three titles in her next 11 tournaments, with the biggest triumph coming at Cincinnati.
The 18-year-old will make her debut appearance at the 2022 WTA finals. She is the youngest player to compete at the season finale since 2005. Her parents and grandfather are her biggest influences personally and professionally.
Sorana Cirstea says she intimidated me badly before the encounters began. She was trained to do this, to intimidate you from the locker room. In her day, she knew when to hit the gas, she had power and impeccable technique.
The Australian Open build-up will have a new tournament starting in 2023 - the United Cup. The new multi-nation tournament will see both the men's and women's tours come together to compete for the title in Australia for the first time since the Hopman Cup ended in 2019. The United Cup will comprise 18 countries/teams and will be the season's first tournament, starting with the inaugural edition on December 29, 2022 and ending on Sunday, January 8, 2023.
Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula have been the top two American players in the WTA rankings for quite some time. When both of them entered the top 4 this week, they made history by becoming the first American women to do so since Serena Williams and Venus Williams in 2010. Pegula defeated Maria Sakkari 6-2, 6-3 in the Guadalajara Open Akron final to claim her first WTA 1000 title.
Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula are the two highest-ranked American players in the WTA rankings. It is the first time since Serena Williams and Venus Williams in 2010 that two American women are ranked inside the Top 4. Gauff, the new world No. 4, made her Top-5 debut owing to a run to the quarterfinals of the Guadalajara Open. Pegula won her maiden WTA 1000 title and made her return to the Top 5. The 28-year-old Pegula also became the highest ranked American since February 2019 when Sloane Stephens was ranked No. 3.
Danielle Collins asked the cameraman personally to back up a little. She was eliminated from the WTA finals contention. The 2022 runner-up suffered a 5-7 6-3 6-3 loss to Maria Sakkari.
Former australian open winner sorana Cirstea hired a new coach to prepare for the upcoming season. His name is Thomas Johansson, a former world number 39 who previously coached other tennis stars.
Iga Swiatek played the final of the Czech city's WTA tournament against Barbora Krejcikova. She had made her way west for the San Diego Open and her first trip to this city. The tournament is one of the matches of the year, a three-hour-and-16 minute epic.
The former world no. 68 has reportedly split up with coach dmitry Tursunov. She will join another WTA player as early as next week. A new fitness trainer has come as welcome news for the former u.s. Open champion.
Sorana Cirstea has been carrying the injury since the us open. The 39-year-old won't play any tournaments in 2022 due to a shoulder injury. Simona Halep closed her 2022 season due to nose surgery.
Iga Swiatek will miss the 2022 BJK Cup finals and has things to say about the scheduling. The event will be held again very close to the WTA Finals in a different part of the world. She said she would be unable to represent Poland at the Billie Jean King cup.
Emma Raducanu beat Magda Linette in straight sets to advance to the semi-finals of the Korea Open. The former US Open champion recorded a first-serve win percentage of 93 on her way to a 6-2 6-2 victory to reach the last four of a WTA Tour event for the first time.
