Aryna Sabalenka with the trophy after beating Jessica Pegula in the final of the Miami Open. (AP) World number one Aryna Sabalenka secured her first Miami Open title by defeating American Jessica Pegula 7-5 6-2 in the WTA 1000 event final at Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday. This victory marks Sabalenka’s second title of 2025,…
Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, illness decimated the Mexican Open in Acapulco. Elsewhere, Stefanos Tsitsipas’ new racket gave him a boost and a court surface change provoked a ruckus. If you’d like to follow our fantastic…
The WTA announced a rebrand Thursday, and the initial discussion will likely center on the merits of the new logo, color scheme and mission statement to “rally the world.” Away from the new design and the soundbites, the governing body of women’s tennis is aiming to put itself at the forefront of women’s sports and…
17-year-old Mirra Andreeva scripted history after becoming the youngest-ever WTA 1000 champion since the introduction of the format back in 2009. On Saturday, February 22, the teenager won the Dubai Tennis Championships after beating Clara Tauson 7-6 (1), 6-1 in the grand finale. She also became the fifth player to win her maiden WTA 1000…
Australian Open champion Madison Keys is no longer able to play at a WTA tournament in the U.S. in February, after her success in Melbourne made her too highly ranked to enter. Keys, who rose to world No. 7 after winning her first Grand Slam title, had entered the WTA 250-level ATX Open in Austin,…
A dominant win in the last warm-up tournament before a Grand Slam doesn’t sound like an occasion for an Olympic gold medalist to express disbelief. But in Adelaide, after a 6-2, 1-0 (ret.) victory over world No. 14 Anna Kalinskaya, Belinda Bencic is at a loss. “I didn’t even think I’d be here,” Bencic, 27…
Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the first tournaments of 2025 reached their sharp ends all across Australia and New Zealand. Aryna Sabalenka continued a remarkable record and too many matches were ended by retirements. If you’d…
It became clear that the fractured dysfunction that courses through professional tennis was getting worse on a bright November morning in Turin, Italy. Andrea Gaudenzi, the chairman of the ATP Tour who views himself as the sport’s ultimate mover and shaker, was holding court in the sparkling hospitality dining area at the 2024 men’s Tour…
Gabriela Dabrowski, a three-time Grand Slam doubles champion, an Olympics mixed doubles medalist and the WTA Tour Finals women’s doubles champion has revealed that she played through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment throughout the 2024 tennis season. “How can something so small cause such a big problem? This is the question I asked myself…
Tennis is back. Did you miss it? The season resumes from today, December 27, with the United Cup opening proceedings in Perth, Australia. The Athletic’s tennis writers Matt Futterman and Charlie Eccleshare are here for the second of two mailbags, answering your questions submitted earlier this month. The first focused on tennis in 2024; this…