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1 week ago |
wtatennis.com | Greg Garber
Petra Kvitova was born in 1990, a few months before Martina Navratilova won Wimbledon, the last of her 18 Grand Slam singles titles. When she began to show an interest in tennis, Kvitova’s father, Jiri, had her watch tapes of some of Navratilova’s high-profile matches. “I don’t think she was consciously trying to imitate me,” Navratilova said earlier this week from her Miami home. “But take some things that she could apply to her game -- and she did it beautifully.
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1 week ago |
wtatennis.com | Greg Garber
The last time a women’s tournament was played at Queen’s Club was more than half a century ago, in 1973. Wooden racquets were the tools of the trade, shaping a more nuanced game than the one we see today. Tatjana Maria, born in the summer of 1987 when the last of those wooden racquets were being wielded, would have thrived in that old-timey environment.
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2 weeks ago |
wtatennis.com | Greg Garber
The transition from clay to grass is abrupt -- like zero to 60 abrupt. From the soft landings and high bounces on red dirt to the low, skidding darts on grass, it’s a tough turnaround after the French Open. There are six Hologic WTA Tour grass tournaments in the three weeks leading into Wimbledon. Three of them are 500s, with loaded fields, in London, Berlin and Bad Homburg. That’s an exceedingly small sample, which is why grass can be such an unpredictable, slippery slope.
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2 weeks ago |
wtatennis.com | Greg Garber
Seven years ago, at the age of 14, Coco Gauff was the Roland Garros junior champion. Since that breathtaking breakthrough, Gauff has raced to meet mounting, sometimes staggering, expectations. She beat Venus Williams the following year at Wimbledon on her way to the fourth round and later collected her first title, in Linz. Still a teenager, Gauff won her first Grand Slam singles title at the 2023 US Open.
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3 weeks ago |
wtatennis.com | Greg Garber
In the third set of her fourth-round match, serving at 4-4, Elena Rybakina faced a break point. When her second serve was called out, Iga Swiatek began the walk to her changeover chair, thinking she’d be serving for the match. But chair umpire Kader Nouni, unsure of the line judge’s call, scrambled down from his seat and scrutinized the mark.
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