WTA Press Release, October 14, 2022 The WTA announced that Jessica Pegula and the doubles teams of Lyudmyla Kichenok and Jelena Ostapenko and Veronika Kudermetova and Elise Mertens have qualified for the 2022 WTA Finals. This will be Pegula’s debut […]
FORT WORTH, TEXAS/WASHINGTON, September 7, 2022 (by Michael Dickens) The WTA has announced that Fort Worth, Texas, will host the 2022 season-ending WTA Finals. The year-end event, which features the top eight singles players and doubles teams in the Race […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON, September 13, 2021 (by Michael Dickens) The season-ending WTA Finals have a temporary home for 2021. On Monday, in a statement posted on its website, the WTA announced that Guadalajara, Mexico will host the the WTA Finals the week […]
WASHINGTON, July 24, 2020 (by Michael Dickens) In a tennis season filled with uncertainty due to the coronavirus pandemic, Thursday evening’s announcement that the WTA Tour has cancelled all seven of its 2020 China events – including the WTA Finals in […]
WASHINGTON, November 5, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) What some saw as a performance of relentless aggression, Timea Babos and Kristina “Kiki” Mladenovic viewed as opportunity to show the world that they were indeed a very formidable doubles team that knows […]
WASHINGTON, November 4, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) Ashleigh Barty made a bit of tennis history Sunday evening at the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen in southeastern China. The top-seeded Barty beat defending champion Elina Svitolina, 6-4, 6-3, before an enthusiastic, sold-out […]
SHENZHEN, November 3, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) With the largest prize check in professional tennis – men’s or women’s – awaiting the winner of the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, the showdown between defending champion Elina Svitolina of Ukraine and World […]
SHENZHEN, November 2, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) This week’s season-ending Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen have been plagued by a series of injuries and illnesses that have resulted in some unfortunate retirements. Through it all, defending champion Elina Svitolina has steered […]
SHENZHEN, November 1, 2019 (by Michael Dickens) No. 2 seed Karolina Pliskova and No. 5 seed Simona Halep came into Friday’s final day of round-robin play at the Shiseido WTA Finals in Shenzhen, China, fighting for second place in the […]
