Spain’s Garbine Muguruza on Saturday beat former champion Venus Williams in the final to win the 2017 Wimbledon Open. Muguruza beat Williams 7-5, 6-0 to win her first title at the All England Club. It was a match between the new and the old as five-time champion Venus reached a major final for the first … Read more
Venus Williams became the oldest Wimbledon semi-finalist for 23 years as the five-time champion brushed aside French Open winner Jelena Ostapenko, while Garbine Muguruza powered past Svetlana Kuznetsova to make it back to the last four on Tuesday. Williams’ 73-minute masterclass on Centre Court clinched a 6-3, 7-5 victory that made her the most senior … Read more
Serena Williams of the United States stays top while Stuttgart semi-finalist Simona Halep of Romania gains a place to fourth in the latest WTA women’s tennis rankings. Angelique Kerber of Germany missed a chance to regain top spot after she went out in her first match at the Stuttgart tournament, won on Sunday by Germany’s … Read more
World number one Angelique Kerber reached the quarter-finals of the Miami Open after swiftly dealing with Japanese qualifier Risa Ozaki in a 6-2, 6-2 victory. But fourth-seed Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia crashed out to the Czech Republic’s Lucie Safarova and ailing French Open champion Garbine Muguruza also bowed out in the fourth round. Kerber took … Read more
World number one Angelique Kerber came back from being a break down in both sets to beat American Shelby Rogers 6-4, 7-5 on Sunday and move into the fourth round at the Miami Open. With no sign of the rain that interrupted the past two days on Key Biscayne, Kerber was joined in the next … Read more
Russian Elena Vesnina’s sparkling Indian Wells campaign continued Friday as she powered into the final with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over rising French star Kristina Mladenovic. Vesnina, a Wimbledon semi-finalist last year who has reached a career high of 15th in the world at the age of 30, had toppled Germany’s soon-to-be world number one … Read more
Eighth-seeded Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova sped past Caroline Garcia 6-1, 6-4 on Tuesday to lead the way into the women’s quarter-finals at Indian Wells. Kuznetsova is in the last eight in the California desert for the first time since reaching back-to-back finals in 2007 and 2008. The 31-year-old Russian, owner of two Grand Slam singles titles, … Read more
Some of women’s tennis’ best performers in recent years are missing from the year-end championships at the WTA finals in Singapore. Serena Williams — the record 22-time grand slam champion — continues to nurse a shoulder injury, Maria Sharapova is serving a drug suspension, Victoria Azarenka is pregnant and Petra Kvitova just didn’t do enough … Read more
Serena Williams will not take part in the WTA Finals in late October due to a shoulder injury, meaning she is skipping the elite year-end event for the second straight season. The 22-time grand slam winner missed the entire Asian swing due to the shoulder problem and has struggled with the issue for much of … Read more