Women's Tennis Association

Established in 1973 by Billie Jean King with a focus on promoting equal opportunities, the WTA stands as the leading organization in women's professional sports worldwide. It ranks among the most well-known and esteemed sports entities, featuring over 1,650 players from around 85 countries, all striving to gain WTA ranking points and compete for prestigious titles. The WTA Tour includes more than 50 events, including four Grand Slam tournaments, taking place across six continents and nearly 30 nations and regions, reaching an audience of over 700 million people globally. The Tour concludes with the Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen, which celebrates the top singles and doubles players of the season based on their standings in the Porsche Race to Shenzhen leaderboard. For more details about the WTA, visit wtatennis.com.

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One Czech lefty legend on another: Navratilova’s tribute to Kvitova

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.
Rankings Watch: Maria returns to Top 50, Zheng hits No. 4

1 week ago | wtatennis.com | Alex Macpherson

The annual transition from clay to grass on the Hologic WTA Tour can feel like a sudden reset. Out go the dusty orange courts and grinding rallies; in come manicured lawns and lightning-quick reflexes. This year's first grass-court champions showed just how vital hand skills are on the surface, slicing, drop-shotting and volleying their way to the trophies.
One slice at a time, Tatjana Maria wins Queen’s Club

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.
Muchova’s one-handed backhand is more than a stopgap

2 weeks ago | wtatennis.com | Alex Macpherson

LONDON -- When Karolina Muchova stepped onto the courts at Roland Garros two weeks ago, ending her latest injury layoff, one element of her game stood out. Her signature sliced backhand, once used to vary pace, had become her sole option off that wing in a first-round win over Alycia Parks. It didn't work against Parks, but grass courts have proved more amenable to the strategy.
Muchova’s one-handed backhand is more than a stopgap

2 weeks ago | wtatennis.com | Alex Macpherson

LONDON -- When Karolina Muchova stepped onto the courts at Roland Garros two weeks ago, ending her latest injury layoff, one element of her game stood out. Her signature sliced backhand, once used to vary pace, had become her sole option off that wing in a first-round loss to Alycia Parks. It didn't work against Parks, but grass courts have proved more amenable to the strategy.
Rankings Watch: Boisson enters Top 100 with biggest leap of the century

2 weeks ago | wtatennis.com | Alex Macpherson

After two dramatic weeks in Paris, the second Grand Slam of the season ended with World No. 2 Coco Gauff rallying past No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka in the Roland Garros final, widening the gap between the tour’s top two and the rest of the field. Sabalenka holds onto the No. 1 ranking, raising her total from 10,683 to 11,553 points. But with her second Grand Slam title, Gauff is closing in, boosting her tally from 6,863 to 8,083 and trimming the gap from 3,820 to 3,470.
New surface, new stakes: Who’s ready for grass-court season?

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.
This is how champions evolve: Gauff sets the standard for her generation

3 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.
Still seeing it, still calling it: Roland Garros preserves the art of the human line call

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.
Who has the edge in the French Open final? Breaking down Sabalenka vs. Gauff

3 weeks ago | wtatennis.com | Greg Garber

Aryna Sabalenka and Coco Gauff have been thisclose in Paris before. On Saturday, one of them will come away with her first Roland Garros title. After a second semifinal appearance, Sabalenka is through to her first final, while Gauff -- a teenage finalist here three years ago -- is back in the championship match. Thanks to Sabalenka, four-time champion Iga Swiatek won’t get a shot at her fourth straight crown.