Sunday, July 27, 2025

Wk.30- Ms.Fernandez Goes to Washington








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*WEEK 29 CHAMPIONS*
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA (WTA 500; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Leylah Fernandez/CAN def. Anna Kalinskaya/RUS 6-1/6-2
D: Taylor Townsend/Zhang Shuai (USA/CHN) def. Caroline Dolehide/Sofia Kenin (USA/USA) 6-1/6-1
PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC (WTA 250; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Marie Bouzkova/CZE def. Linda Noskova/CZE 2-6/6-1/6-3
D: Nadiia Kichenok/Makota Ninomiya (UKR/JPN) def. Lucie Havlickova/Laura Samson (CZE/CZE) 1-6/6-4 [10-7]
Palermo, Italy (WTA 125; Red Clay Outdoor)
S: Francesca Jones/GBR def. Anouk Koevermans/NED 6-3/6-2
D: Estelle Cascino/Feng Shuo (FRA/CHN) def. Momoko Kobori/Ayano Shimizu (JPN/JPN) 6-2/6-7(2) [10-7]




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PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Leylah Fernandez/CAN and Marie Bouzkova/CZE
...at times, you could have almost sworn that it was 2021 at Flushing Meadows all over again...



The only thing that was missing in Washington was Fernandez playing in the final against Emma Raducanu once more (missed it by THAT much!). Of course, the other difference this time around was that it was the Canadian who was lifting up the big trophy at the end.

Just as had been the case during her thrilling U.S. Open final run four summers ago, "A"-game Fernandez has a strong sense of the "dramatic gene" when it comes to producing great moments between the lines. Back in 2021, I compared her crowd-pleasing abilities favorably to that of one James Scott Connors, and while Fernandez's career hasn't exactly flown above the clouds in the intervening years since that two-week NYC stretch, she's never gone away, either. Whether she's been leading Team Canada in Cup play (see the '23 BJK title run), or consisently producing at least one final/title and a few Top 10 wins on an annual basis, Fernandez has been able to do what countrywoman Bianca Andreecu hasn't since her own breakout season: remain on the court and (since you have to play to have a say) relevant and in the conversation (even if sometimes on the edges) when it comes to the weekly happenings on the women's tour.

It'd be nice if her Washington title, her first at the 500 level, means a significant step *up* remains to come in her career, but even if that doesn't happen it's still as sign that Fernandez, ever the fighter, also isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

The D.C. run, naturally, had its share of big wins and at least one furious comeback, as Fernandez posted victories over Maya Joint (a two-time '25 WTA champ), Jessie Pegula (her second Top 10 win of the year), Taylor Townsend (the new WD #1) and Elena Rybakina (from 7-6/5-3 down, with the Kazakh serving for the match). Then, in the final, Fernandez left the heroics at the door, handling Anna Kalinskaya (who hadn't dropped a set all week) in quick order by the tune of 6-1/6-2 scoreline to pick up her fourth career tour title (the most by any Canadian woman in tour history).



(Extra points given for the guy in the Jayden Daniels jersey being perfectly placed in the background for all the trophy-lift footage.)


In Prague, Bouzkova was the queen of the Czechs, rising above a field populated by her countrywomen to become the first two-time winner of the event.



Bouzkova strung together victories over Gao Hanyu, Luisa Stefanini, Ann Li and Tereza Valentova, then rallied from a set down to defeat top seed Linda Noskova in an all-Czech battle, picking up her second tour title.

Bouzkova is 2-0 in finals in Prague, with her maiden WTA title coming three years ago, as opposed to her 0-6 mark elsewhere in tour-level events.
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RISERS: Anna Kalinskaya/RUS and Linda Noskova/CZE
...Kalinskaya remains one of the tour's most prominant "almost" stories. For years, the Hordette's health always prevented her from climbing as high and winning as often as her talent said she should. Finally, last year, she found some health and produced a career year, producing her best slam result (AO QF) and overall mark in majors (going 10-4, after having been 4-13 prior to last year), reaching her first two tour singles finals (one a 1000, w/ both being tight three-set losses), getting seven Top 10 wins (she'd had three) and ranking as high as #11.

2025 hasn't been a carbon copy campaign to date for Kalinskaya. She missed the AO with an injury, and had 1r/2r exits at Roland Garros and Wimbledon. Still, she came into the week with a pair of Top 10 wins under the belt, and had reached a SF and two QF (w/ injury ending two of those top three season results). As D.C. began, Kalinskaya was just 10-13 on the season. But things *finally* came together.

She didn't drop a set in wins over Kamilla Rakhimova, Magda Linette, Clara Tauson and Emma Raducanu to reach her third tour-level final (all at 500+ events), her first in over a year (since Berlin '24).

Kalinskaya's week didn't end well, as she recorded just three games vs. Leylah Fernandez in the title match, but she'll jump from #48 to #31 on Monday, with a seed in New York now a real possibility with a month's worth of 1000 events in Montreal and Cincinnati still to come.

Of course, no matter what happened with Kalinskaya in the final... Bella was going to emerge as a new star in the WTA Pooch Pantheon, no matter what.



She even got a shout-out during the trophy ceremony.

Meanwhile, Noskova was the #1 seed in Prague, leading a large contigent of Czechs who, almost to a woman, all found varying degrees of success on home courts. Possibly soon to be the #1 CZE on tour, what with #14 Karolina Muchova soon defending U.S. Open semifinal points, Noskova arrived off a Round of 16 run at SW19 (a virtual Czech rite of grass court passage) and played her way into her fourth tour final (second in Prague, where she was RU two years ago) with wins over Anastasia Gasanova, Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Katerina Siniakova and Wang Xinyu.



Up a set in the final against countrywoman Marie Bouzkova, Noskova failed to close out the match to claim her second title, instead losing in three. Still, she'll crack the Top 20 for the first time on Monday.
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SURPRISE: Francesca Jones/GBR
...Jones maintained her roll in the Palermo 125, improving to 11-1 in her last twelve matches with a title run on the Italian red clay.

After a pair of $75K challenger wins this spring, the Brit posted tour-level MD victories on grass in Nottingham and Eastbourne on her way to a new career-high ranking. With her 3 & 2 victory in the Palermo final over Dutch player Anouk Koevermans, which followed her earlier Contrexeville 125 title, Jones climbs to another career high point, cracking the Top 100 for the first time at #84.

Meanwhile, 21-year old Koevermans (her dad Mark was a Top 40 ATP Tour player in the 1990s) saved a MP in the 2nd Round (vs. Darja Sementistaja) on her way to her biggest career final, and also reaches a new career high of #172.
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VETERANS: Taylor Townsend/USA (w/ Zhang Shuai/CHN)
...Venus Williams wasn't the only U.S. veteran toiling in both the singles and doubles in D.C., as Townsend was doing the same.

The 29-year old qualified in singles after completing a Colombian two-fer with wins over Camila Osorio and Emiliana Arango, then upset Tatjana Maria and Sofia Kenin to reach her second career WTA QF (w/ Toronto last summer). She lost to Leylah Fernandez, but was hardly finished for the week.



Teamed with Zhang Shuai for the first time, Townsend had ended Williams & Hailey Baptiste's doubles run via a 10-6 MTB win in the QF, then (w/ Katerina Siniakova playing back home in Prague) swiped Monday's #1 doubles ranking from her regular partner with a SF win over Raducanu/Rybakina (who put in just five games before retiring, with both having singles SF matches to play the next day).



And it didn't end there, as Townsend & Zhang took the title with a dominant 1 & 1 win over Caroline Dolehide/Sofia Kenin. The win is Townsend's tenth at tour-level, and ties her with Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini for the WTA season lead with three (the other two, including the AO, came w/ Siniakova). Zhang, who'd been 0-3 in '25 finals, now has fifteen career titles.


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COMEBACKS: Emma Raducanu/GBR and Maria Sakkari/GRE
...though her coaching situation remains unsettled (w/ the recently successful Mark Petchey being unable to commit to being full-time), Raducanu has made significant progress over the course of 2025, four years after winning the U.S. Open in a stunning run that began in qualifying. As she's mostly kept a step ahead of injury issues, Raducanu has reached her maiden 1000 QF (Miami, in her last U.S. event), notched her first non-grass court Top 10 win (vs. Navarro), returned to the Top 50 for the first time in nearly three years and pushed #1 Aryna Sabalenka in a tough 3rd Rounder at Wimbledon.

In Washington, Raducanu continued to trend upward, reaching the SF in both singles (the third such result of her career, first since '22 Seoul) and doubles (w/ Rybakina). Wins over Marta Kostyuk, Naomi Osaka and Maria Sakkari assured her of a Top 40 return (she climbs from GBR #3 to #1, moving past Boulter and Kartal), but the intriguing notion of a potential "Take Two" of the '21 U.S. Open in the D.C. final failed to take hold.

With both Raducanu and Leylah Fernandez in both the QF and SF of the same event for the first time since their dual slam run four summers ago, the Canadian held up her end of the deal by winning in Saturday's first semi, but Raducanu subsequently fell in straights to Anna Kalinskaya as the Russian maintained the no-sets-loss momentum that she'd been building all week.

Raducanu will be ranked #33 on Monday.



A finalist in Washington two years ago, Sakkari (#90) received a MD wild card this time around and played her way into the QF with wins over Katie Boulter and Emma Navarro. She lost there to Raducanu.

This was Sakkari's eighth tournament with Tom Hill as coach, and it marks the high point so far of their second stint together. After a 4th Round (Madrid) finish in their opening tournament, Sakkari hadn't posted anything better than a 2nd Round run until this week. She's 11-8 with Hill this season, after having been 7-13 prior to that in '25.

Her result will be enough to lift Sakkari back into the Top 75.
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FRESH FACES: Tereza Valentova/CZE and Wang Xinyu/CHN
...arriving back home in the Czech Republic after a 125 title run (her second of '25) in Porto (POR), 18-year old Valentova carried over her roll to her maiden tour-level QF/SF in Prague. As was the case a week ago, the Crusher teen often dominated on the scoreboard, putting together wins over Aoi Ito (2 & love) and Jessika Ponchet (2 & love) around a first career Top 50 victory over Rebecca Sramkova (7-6/7-5) to assure a Top 100 breakthrough.

Facing off with countrywoman Marie Bouzkova for a spot in the final, Valentova fell in straights (she'd led 5-3 in the 2nd) 6-4/7-5, but exits with a 19-3 mark in her last 22 matches (39-9 on the season) and a career-best #92 ranking on Monday.



The lone non-Czech in the Prague semis, Wang is currently the highest-ranked active Chinese woman with Zheng Qinwen's injury-related break from the tour. This week, she reached her third SF of the season with wins over Harriet Dart, as well as Czechs Lucie Havlickova (rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd set TB, saving a MP) and Sara Bejlek in a QF match-up stretched out over two days. Wang's win prevented the first all-nation semifinals in a tour-level event since 2021 in Saint Petersburg (w/ four Hordettes).



Wang lost to top-seeded Czech Linda Noskova in her second match of the day on Friday (after having dispached Havlickova after one set of play).
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ITF PLAYER: Caty McNally/USA
...has the McNally Era begun?

All right, that's a *bit* of an exaggeration, but surely the 23-year old Bannerette has discovered *something* since her return from early '24 elbow surgery.

McNally's no-sets-lost $100K title run in Evansville (Indiana), completed with a 7-5/6-4 win over Dasha Vidmanova (who'd led 5-2 and had two SP in the 1st), strings together back-to-back titles along with her 125 crown in Newport. It gives McNally a ten-match winning streak (it started with a win over Vidmanova, too) since she left London as the only player who'd taken a set from Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon (during their 2nd Round match at the AETLC).

After playing just thirteen matches in 2024, having her surgery in March before returning in November, McNally has now posted a 28-8 mark since she fell in the 1st Round in Miami this spring. She'll be at #116 (up 18) on Monday.
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JUNIOR STAR: Giulia Safina Popa/ROU
...fresh from her WTA MD debut as a qualifier in Iasi, 15-year old Romanian Popa claims her second J300 crown of the season in Bytom, Poland, defeating Germany's Julia Stusek 6-4/6-2 in the final.

The junior #50, Popa's previous J300 title came in February in Lima, where she got a win in the final over Julieta Pareja (current girls' #1), who'd go on to reach the tour-level Bogota SF, win the Roehampton juniors and reach the Wimbledon girls' final.
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DOUBLES: Nadiia Kichenok/Makota Ninomiya, UKR/JPN
...two weeks, two surfaces, two titles.

Since the end of Wimbledon, where they both lost in the 1st Round with other partners, Kichenok/Ninomiya have moved on to a short stint on the clay, winning the Hamburg title a week ago, then went to hard courts this week in Prague and won there, too. The #2 seeds, they dropped no sets en route to the final, where they took a deciding MTB over the young wild card Czech duo of Lucie Havlickova & Laura Samson to take the crown.

It's Kichenok's eleventh career tour-level win, and the ninth for Ninomiya.


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WHEELCHAIR: Diede de Groot/NED
...ah, now that's more like it.

Granted, de Groot didn't face any of her '25 (revolving) nemesis stand-ins in the Belgian Open in Enghien, but no matter. The former #1 dropped just seven games over three matches en route to the Series 1 crown, including love & 2 wins over Jiske Griffioen (SF) and 1 & 1 victory against Zhu Zhenzhen in the final.

It's de Groot's second post-hip surgery S1 title this season, but won't likely do too much to help up her ranking before the U.S. Open, as she still has her Paralympic runner-up points to come off her totals.
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1. Prague Final - Marie Bouzkova def. Linda Noskova
...2-6/6-1/6-3. In a week dominated by the Czechs on hard court, the Prague final pitted a pair of countrywoman facing off for the title. Bouzkova claimed her second career tour win, and second in Prague, as she rallies from a set down to become the first two-time winner of the event.

Bouzkova is the third Czech winner in Prague in the last five years, and sixth since the tournament became a tour-level schedule stop in 2015. In that same span, six Czechs have also been the runner-up. This was the third all-Czech final.

Earlier in the week, the MD saw 1st Round victories from a large Crush of Czechs, including three young wild cards (Havlickova, Palicova and Salkova), two more teenagers (Valentova and Bejlek), the 20-year old #1 seed (Noskova) and veterans Bouzkova and Siniakova, giving the home nation half of the field of sixteen in the 2nd Round. Five reached the QF, and three were in the semis.
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2. Prague 2nd Rd. - Wang Xinyu def. Lucie Havlickova
...3-6/7-5/7-6(6). Wang overcomes a 5-2 3rd set TB deficit, saving a MP held by the young Czech at 6-5 in the breaker.

In the 1st Round, 20-year old Havlickova -- the '22 RG junior champ and U.S. finalist -- had recorded her first WTA MD win since her maiden "W" hree years earlier in Prague.


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3. Prague Q2 - Anastasia Gasanova def. Jessika Ponchet
...1-6/7-6(2)/6-2. A few years ago, Gasanova was a player on the rise, raching a pair of tour-level QF in 2021 and a high rank of #121 in early '22. Then the Russian-Ukrainian war started, and Gasanova got into much hot water with a series comments spouting pro-Russia, anti-Ukraine propaganda.

Since then, she's mostly toiled on the ITF circuit, winning seven challenger titles over the past thirteen months and going a combined 86-25 since the start of 2024 coming into Prague qualifying (ranked #249).

Gasanova strung together two wins, including a comeback from 6-1/4-2 down vs. Ponchet, to reach her first tour-level MD since 2022. She lost in the 1st Round to #1 seeded Linda Noskova, dropping a pair of TB sets to the Czech after having served for the 1st set and been knotted up a 7-7 in the 2nd set TB.
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4. Washington 1st Rd. - Emma Raducanu def. Marta Kostyuk
...7-6(4)/6-4. Kostyuk since that underarm serve on MP to defeat Anna Blinkova 1 & 1: 7-9, with six losses in a row.

She's now 17-16 overall in 2025.
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5. Washington 2nd Rd. - Emma Raducanu def. Naomi Osaka
...6-4/6-2.A result that effectively shut down a large number of overly-vocal Osaka-backers and Raducanu-detractors, a decent portion of which overlapped on the Tennis Venn Diagram of Social Media Fans/Haters on this particular day.

After Osaka posted surprisingly encouraging outings on clay and grass this spring/summer, one shouldn't place *too* much importance on what was her opening match of what *should* be the "sweet spot" of her remaining '25 docket. She was more upbeat afterward here than she was at the end of the grass season, so it seems prudent to reserve any too-early judgement on her North American prospects until there's a bigger sample size (I guess).

That thought could change fairly easily, though.
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6. $100K Figueira da Fox POR Final - Maria Timofeeva def. Alina Korneeva
...6-3/6-0. Two young Hordettes, both on the comeback trail from career-slowing injuries, faced off in the final after having reached the MD via qualifying.

21-year old Timofeeva (#264), a maiden tour champ (as a LL) in her WTA debut in Budapest two years ago, claims her first singles title on any level since her lone tour-level crown, defeating 18-year old Korneeva (#259), the 2023 AO/RG junior champ who'd already collected a pair of $100K titles in each of the last two years.


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7. $15K Las Palmas ESP Final - Ariana Geerlings def. Nahia Berecoechea
...6-4/6-2. After making her WTA MD debut in Hamburg (as a qualifier), 19-year old Spaniard Geerlings claims her sixth career ITF crown (second in '25).


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1. Washington SF - Leylah Fernandez def. Elena Rybakina
...6-7(2)/7-6(3)/7-6(3). A year ago, in their last meeting in the Cincinnati 2nd Round, Fernandez overcame a 5-3 3rd set deficit, saving a pair of MP vs. Rybakina to get the win in a 7-3 deciding TB. At the time, Rybakina wasn't yet 100% as she was just returning from her latest illness break, and had 20 aces that were somewhat balanced out by an additional 17 DF (Fernandez had 13 DF that day herself, vs. just 5 aces).

This time, in a 3:12 match that featured just two breaks of serve in a three-TB affair, Fernandez again staged a massive situational comeback to get the win. Though she never held a MP this time, Rybakina led 7-6/5-3, and served at 5-4. Fernandez survived with another 7-3 TB win, then went on to win *another* 7-3 TB in the 3rd.

In this instance, Rybakina again had a high ace total (17, vs. just 7 DF), but Fernandez turned around her previous 5/13 numbers from a year ago, with 12 aces this time (vs. 3 DF).


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2. Washington 1st Rd. - Hailey Baptiste/Venus Williams def. Genie Bouchard/Clervie Ngounoue
...6-3/6-1. In her first pro match since Miami last year, and her first in women's doubles since the 2022 U.S. Open, 45-year old Williams records her first doubles win since the 2018 Roland Garros, and her first victory in either discipline since 2023.


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3. Washington 1st Rd. - Venus Williams def. Peyton Stearns
...6-3/6-4. Nothing to see here, just a 45-year old walking-and-talking-and-winning Hall of Famer-to-be becoming the oldest woman to win a tour-level singles match since Martina Navratilova (at 47) at Wimbledon in 2004, and doing so against the current world #35 behind a clean game and big and effective serve. It's Venus' first singles win since Cincinnati (vs. V.Kudermetova) two years ago.


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4. Washington QF - Taylor Townsend/Zhang Shuai def. Hailey Baptiste/Venus Williams 6-4/3-6 [10-6]
Washington 2nd Rd. - Magdalena Frech def. Venus Williams 6-2/6-2
...Williams put a lot on her plate in her first tournament in a year and a half, no matter what her age might be. With the back-to-back 1st Round wins in s/d, she ended up playing *four* straight days, and by the time she finally exited the singles draw on Thursday the "inevitable" had finally showed up on the scoreboard.

Of course, such a workload was just the *first* step of Venus' summer return, as she's already been given a WC into Cincinnati, is signed up for the U.S. MX "event" and seems likely to appear in more than one MD at Flushing Meadows.


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5. Washington 2nd Rd. - Leylah Fernandez def. Jessie Pegula
...3-6/6-1/7-5. Wouldn't you know it, just as Emma Raducanu flashes on North American hard courts here comes her fellow 2021 U.S. Open finalist Fernandez following right along.

The Canadian's win over Pegula was her second over a Top 10 player this year, her first multi-win season since she had three during her U.S. Open run four years ago. All *nine* of Fernandez's career Top 10 wins have come on hard court.


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6. Washington Final - Leylah Fernandez def. Anna Kalinskaya
...6-1/6-2. Fernandez's win makes her the winningest Canadian woman in tour history, as career title #4 breaks her tie atop the heap with Bianca Andreescu.

Of course, Andreescu has won "the most" (w/ all three titles coming in a single season in 2019) and the biggest (U.S. Open, Indian Wells and Toronto), but Fernandez has been more consistent over a longer stretch, winning titles in four different seasons over the last five years.

Her seven individual final appearances have come over six seasons (2020-25), with her 500 win in D.C. being her biggest so far.


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7. Prague Q1 - Alena Kovackova def. Arina Rodionova 6-1/6-7(2)/7-6(1)
Prague Q2 - Alena Kovackova def. Luisa Stefanini 6-3/6-1
...17-year old Kovackova, a qualifying WC ranked #773, notches two victories to make her tour-level MD debut.

Against Rodionova, the Czech held a MP at 6-5 in the 2nd before the Aussie forced a TB and won it; then Kovackova lost a 4-1 lead in the 3rd and was taken to another TB. This time she won it.

In her WTA debut, Kovackova (whose sister Jana lost in qualifying) fell to yet another Crusher, Lucie Havlickova.
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8. Palermo 125 1st Rd. - Panna Udvardy def. Veronika Erjavec
...6-1/6-1. What have you done with me lately?

Just two days after winning a doubles title together in Iasi, Udvardy and Erajevec were facing off with each other in a 1st Round match in singles.
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Someone told them that "reimagined" would makes things sound "new and exciting." I guess.




Meanwhile, Opelka is essentially the poster boy for this exhibition with prize money, someone with no regard for doubles or respect for doubles players... yet he's in this field, with Venus, no less.



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If only she'd been ranked #1 and had the money to immediately lawyer-up, or knew someone "with inside influence" (or didn't publicly complain... which wouldn't have been necessary if she'd met at least one of those criteria)...




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This headline makes it sound like the decision was in question (I don't *think* it ever was...)




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www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz... R.I P Ozzy Osborne

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*2025 PLAYERS WITH WTA (S/D) TITLES*
Jasmine Paolini, ITA (1/3)
Mirra Andreeva, RUS (2/2)
Alona Ostapenko, LAT (1/2)
Elise Mertens, BEL (2/1)
Maya Joint, AUS (2/1)
MARIE BOUZKOVA, CZE (1/1)

*2025 FINALISTS BY COUNTRY - F (W)*
20 (10) - USA
7 (4) - RUS (Kalinskaya)
7 (3) - BLR
3 (2) - BEL
3 (1) - CZE (Bouzkova/Noskova),POL,UKR
2 (2) - AUS
2 (1) - COL,DEN,ITA,LAT,ROU,SUI
1 (1) - CAN (Fernandez),FRA,GER,KAZ
1 (0) - CHN,HUN,JPN,PHI,SRB

*2025 MULT.DIFFERENT WTA FINALISTS BY COUNTRY*
9 - USA
6 - RUS (w/ Kalinskaya)
3 - CZE (w/ Bouzkova,Noskova)
2 - COL
2 - ITA
2 - POL
2 - ROU
2 - SUI
2 - UKR
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1 - 15 nations

*RECENT WTA ALL-NATION FINALS*
[2020]
(USA) Auckland - S.Williams d. Pegula
(BLR) Ostrava - Sabalenka d. Azarenka
[2021]
(RUS) Saint Petersburg - Kasatkina d. Gasparyan #
(CZE) Prague - Krejcikova d. Martincova #
[2022]
(USA) Adelaide 2 - Keys d. Riske
(RUS) Istanbul - Potapova d. V.Kudermetova
[2023]
(GBR) Nottingham - Boulter d. Burrage #
(RUS) Rosmalen - Alexandrova d. V.Kudermetova
(CZE) Nanchang - Siniakova d. Bouzkova
[2024]
(CHN) Austin - Yuan d. Wang Xiyu
(USA) Strasbourg - Keys d. Stearns
(RUS) Iasi - M.Andreeva d. Avanesyan
(USA) Toronto - Pegula d. Anisimova
(RUS) Ningbo - Kasatkina d. M.Andreeva
[2025]
(USA) Adelaide - Keys d. Pegula
(USA) Austin - Pegula d. Kessler #
(USA) Charleston - Pegula d. Kenin #
(CZE) Prague - Bouzkova d. Noskova #
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#- tournament in home nation

*2025 MOST SF/QF FROM NATION*
[3/4 SF]
Charleston/USA = Pegula (W); Kenin (RU); Anisimova (SF)
Iasi/ROU = Begu (W); Cristian (SF), Cirstea (SF)
Prague/CZE = Bouzkova (W); Noskova (RU); Valentova (SF)
[recent 4/4 SF]
2017 US Open/USA: Stephens/Keys, SF-Vandeweghe/V.Williams
2021 Saint Petersburg/RUS: Kasatkina/Gasparyan; SF-Kuznetsova/Zvonareva
[6/8 QF]
Auckland/USA - Montgomery,Parks,Baptiste,Keys,Pera,Volynets
[5/8 QF]
Charleston/USA - Pegula,Kenin,Anisimova,Collins,Navarro
Prague/CZE - Bouzkova,Noskova,Valentova,Bejlek,Siniakova
[recent 7/8 QF]
1993 Oakland (USA)
2021 Saint Petersburg (RUS)

*CAREER WTA TITLES - CANADA*
4 - LEYLAH FERNANDEZ (2021-25)
3 - Bianca Andreescu (2019)
2 - Carling Bassett-Seguso (1983-87)
2 - Helen Kelesi (1986-88)
1 - Genie Bouchard (2014)
1 - Aleksandra Wozniak (2008)
1 - Jill Hetherington (1988)
1 - Patricia Hy-Boulais (1986)

*2025 FIRST-TIME WTA SEMIFINALISTS*
Auckland: Robin Montgomery, USA (20/#117)
Hobart: Maya Joint, AUS (18/#118)
Merida: Emiliana Arango, COL (24/#133)-RU
Miami: Alex Eala, PHI (19/#140)
Bogota: Julieta Pareja, USA (16/#550)
Roland Garros: Lois Boisson, FRA (22/#361)
Prague: TEREZA VALENTOVA, CZE (18/#106)

*2025 YOUNGEST WTA SF*
16 - Julieta Pareja, USA (Bogota SF)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Brisbane SF)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Dubai W)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Indian Wells W)
18 - TEREZA VALENTOVA, CZE (Prague SF)
18 - Maya Joint, AUS (Hobart SF)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Rabat W)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Eastbourne W)
19 - Alex Eala, PHI (Miami SF)
[young WTA doubles finalists]
17 - LAURA SAMSON, CZE (Prague - L)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Brisbane - W)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Miami - W)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Rabat - W)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Eastbourne - L)
[oldest WTA WD/MX champions]
38 - Sara Errani (Roland Garros)
38 - Sara Errani (Roland Garros MX)
38 - Sara Errani (Rome)
37 - Sara Errani (I.W. MX Invit.)
37 - Sara Errani (Doha)
37 - Laura Siegemund (Nottingham)
36 - ZHANG SHUAI (Washington)
36 - Alexandra Panova (Bad Homburg)

*U.S. WOMAN RANKED DOUBLES #1 (by year first #1)*
1984 Martina Navratilova
1985 Pam Shriver
1991 Gigi Fernandez
1997 Lindsay Davenport
2000 Corina Morariu
2000 Lisa Raymond
2007 Liezel Huber
2010 Venus Williams
2010 Serena Williams
2017 Bethanie Mattek-Sands
2022 Coco Gauff
2023 Jessica Pegula
2025 Taylor Townsend






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