Absolute grit from Maja Chwalinska in Wuhan. She's projected to No.11 on Monday.
Asked Maja yesterday if she ever had the "one-hit wonder" doubts. Well that's done and dusted. Yeah, she's pretty good on hard courts.
Ostapenko has her mental coach in Wuhan and she's all about kindness. "Nobody's perfect. You cannot have every single day a great day. So the most important thing is just to, in the moment, be nice to myself and just play." www.wuhanopentennis.com/whNews/NewsL...
Ostapenko Outguns Pegula Jelena Ostapenko gets her best win of the season by ranking, overcoming world #4 Jessica Pegula, 2-6, 7-6⁷, 6-3, to reach the 3rd round in Wuhan. The 2017 Roland Garros champion has her first Top 5 win since Aryna Sabalenka in Stuttgart last year.
It happened! It really happened! (Q)Daria Kasatkina vs Jelena Ostapenko
tomera@mjtomera.bsky.social · 2w agoCmon Dasha, take out SST and (hopefully) get picked as the qualifier playing Penko in the first round For old times sake!
Cmon Dasha, take out SST and (hopefully) get picked as the qualifier playing Penko in the first round For old times sake!
I was a bit ambivalent about the apparent adulation for Craig Tiley, but it seems things can always go downhill
Lyn@lyn-knott.bsky.social · 2w ago"One thing you'll get from me is relentless pursuit of growth and relentless pursuit of value for our stakeholders". How utterly depressing. This guy clearly doesn't care at all about the actual tennis. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/o...
"why is my metabolism slow as duck" - Jessica Pegula's latest Google search, as per the latest Players Box episode Also mentioned: little things like chairing the WTA architecture council However, the duck was clearly the most important information in the podcast
A day after Elena Rybakina is upset in Beijing, Nicola Bartunkova takes out Aryna Sabalenka! All the more incredibly, Bartunkova served under 50%, but Sabalenka's return was absolutely abysmal. More importantly, it's another excuse to post Nicola's adorable photo from the TNNS app. Yay! 👏🎾
Jelena Ostapenko d. Paula Badosa 7-6(5) 7-5 in Beijing Down 3-5 in the 1st set. Down 3-5 in the 2nd set. Penko came up with big tennis at the right moments. She’s now won her last 3 matches against Paula. Great win for one of the most powerful ladies in tennis. 🇱🇻🤍
Back v Joint must be the most anatomically themed WTA match ever.
Charlotte, North Carolina has been announced as the new host city of the WTA Finals and will stage the event from 2027-2029 at Spectrum Center, home of the NBA’s Charlotte Hornets. More via WTA👇🏼
NY's new friendly neighborhood tennis-woman Qinwen Zheng #USOpen
Madison Keys Saw It Coming “Tennis just feels really hard right now, so I feel like that kind of took over,” she said after losing to Zheng Qinwen from 5-0 up in the 3rd. "I mean, I got really scared, like I couldn't swing" stevetignor.substack.com/p/madison-ke...
Madison Keys Saw It Coming
“Tennis just feels really hard right now, so I feel like that kind of took over,” she said after losing to Zheng Qinwen from 5-0 up in the 3rd
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Pegula looking almost dazed. Serve not working, down 1-5 very quickly
Frodin with three near-120mph aces in a row, there are signals that she will be something in a couple years
Strycova in the Noskova player box. Looking great (well, both of them are)
I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form
An absolute cinema moment there with Navarro celebrating and Boisson smashing her racquet in the background
Qinwen the most impressive player so far today Even though she struggled against the 16 year old Liutova who is so tough
RIP Vandewinkel Pliskova d. Vandewinkel 2-6 7-5 6-3 after being down 2-6 2-5 and saving a match point on the way
Keys almost broke to 6-5 but Bejlek managed to hold. Just. She does not know the meaning of ova
No rain during Wimbledon, it was all packed on a container ship going to the US for the American summer swing
Tennis Updates@tennisupdates.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe are going to get slammed here but the overall forecast is not quite as bad as it was earlier in the day
Rybakina's serve looks still jetlagged If she somehow gets through then things can get better quickly of course