GUADALAJARA/WASHINGTON, November 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The Akron WTA Finals Guadalajara, which took place in the nearly-mile-high western Mexican city known for its joyful mariachi music, crowned a first-time champion in World No. 5 Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain Wednesday night. There […]
COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, November 1, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Looking back, Donna Vekic will always remember her third career WTA title because her persistence and hard work paid off handsomely – and it made for a great way for her to end […]
COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 31, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Danish teenager Clara Tauson will go after her third WTA tour-level title in her rookie season on the tour Sunday following a remarkable comeback victory in the semifinals of the Courmayeur Ladies Open […]
COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 30, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) No. 3 seed Liudmila Samsonova of Russia, the highest remaining seed at this week’s Courmayeur Ladies Open in the Italian Alps city of Courmayeur, has dominated her opponents en route to attaining her […]
COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 29, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Croatia’s Donna Vekic has shown much resilience in her run to the Courmayeur Ladies Open quarterfinals this week in the the northwest Italian Alpine resort town of Courmayeur, at the foot of Mont […]
COURMAYEUR/WASHINGTON, October 28, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Just three days after Ann Li of the United States won her first WTA tour-level singles title at the Tenerife Ladies Open in the Spanish Canary Islands, the 48th-ranked American played her debut […]
TENERIFE, October 24, 2021 Ann Li captured her maiden title on the WTA Tour by lifting the trophy of the inaugural Tenerife Ladies Open, a WTA 250 hard-court event hosted by the Abama Tennis Club in Guía di Isora. The 21-year-old […]
INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 18, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Regardless of who won Sunday’s BNP Paribas Open women’s singles title match, between two-time champion Victoria Azarenka and first-time WTA 1000 finalist Paula Badosa, it was going to be historic. In Badosa’s […]
INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 17, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Paula Badosa has arrived at the moment of the biggest title match in her budding tennis career. On Sunday, the 23-year-old Spaniard who was born in New York City but lives and […]
INDIAN WELLS/WASHINGTON, October 17, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Hsieh Su-Wei of Taiwan and Elise Mertens of Belgium have teamed together for just eight tournaments. Their partnership grew out of two others – Hsieh and Barbora Strycova of the Czech Republic, […]
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