NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, September 10, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Win or lose, it’s been very clear from Day One that Coco Gauff has been anointed the teenage queen of Queens of this year’s US Open. The 19-year-old American from Florida has been […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, September 8, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) Coco Gauff has been the center of attention in women’s singles this US Open fortnight, round by round – becoming the first American teenager to advance to the semifinals since 2001. On […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 23, 2023 (by Michael Dickens) While the WTA Tour has been hurt for years by a lack of consistent major rivalries at the top of the rankings – the last time the No. 1 and No. 2 players […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 24, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Sunday’s WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix final between a pair of Top-5 stars, World No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland and World No. 4 Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, was the culmination of […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 23, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) All week long, Aryna Sabalenka has kept an eye on the grand prize at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. The grand prize, visibly on display behind the baseline inside Porsche Arena […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 22, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) Aryna Sabalenka beat Anett Kontaveit a year ago in the quarterfinal round of the WTA 500 Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. Since then, the World No. 6 Kontaveit has been lights out […]
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, September 8, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) Aryna Sabalenka has been nothing if not consistent during this year’s US Open, winning five straight. Her 43 victories this season put her at the top of the WTA leader board. Now, […]
MONTREAL/WASHINGTON, August 13, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) With both Ashleigh Barty and Naomi Osaka, the number one and two-ranked players in the world absent from this week’s WTA 1000 Omnium Banque Nationale in Montreal, attention has shifted to World No. […]
MADRID/WASHINGTON, May 8, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) In the end, Aryna Sabalenka celebrated her Mutua Madrid Open title inside La Caja Mágica with a smile, a stylish power pop dance move and a new career-high ranking. What will the Belarusian […]
STUTTGART/WASHINGTON, April 23, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, the WTA’s annual kickoff to the European red clay season, has reached the quarterfinal round. On Friday, there are four quality matches that will pare the field down […]
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