Sunday, October 11, 2026

Wk.40- Qinwen's Gambit

Before Alex Eala, there was Zheng Qinwen... and she's back.








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*WEEK 40 CHAMPIONS*
BEIJING, CHINA (WTA 1000; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Zheng Qinwen/CHN def. Mirra Andreeva/RUS 7-5/6-4
WD: Gaby Dabrowski/Luisa Stefani (CAN/BRA) def. Katerina Siniakova/Zhang Shuai (CZE/CHN) 6-1/6-2
Suzhou, China (WTA 125; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Rebecca Sramkova/SVK def. Kyoka Okamura/JPN 6-3/6-1
D: Li Yu-yun/Zhang Ying (TPE/CHN) def. Tatiana Prozorova/Aliaksandra Sasnovich (RUS/BLR) 6-3/6-0
Samsun, Turkey (WTA 125; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Ayla Aksu/TUR def. Lucrezia Stefanini/ITA 7-5/2-6/6-2
D: Elena Pridankina/Anastasia Tikhonova (RUS/RUS) def. Rutuja Bhosale/Elena Micic (IND/AUS) 7-6(5)/6-7(7) [10-3]




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[Beijing 3rd Rd. Monday-to-Final]




PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Zheng Qinwen/CHN
...two seasons ago, Zheng was ascendent. In 2024, she didn't just win Olympic Gold, she also reached the AO, WTAF and Wuhan 1000 finals, as well as winning two other titles as she finished the season at #5 before climbing as high as #4 early in '25. Last season, she reached consecutive Sunshine Double QF, the semis in Rome and RG QF before lingering elbow issues finally required surgery following Wimbledon.

Everything since then has been in question, until the past two weeks in Beijing.

A year ago, after missing two months, Zheng returned to the courts to play in Beijing, only to abort her early comeback after retiring in just her second match. She didn't play again until February, and spent most of rest of the season searching for her form. She arrived in New York for U.S. Open qualifying at just 11-13 and ranked #125.

That's when things finally began to click again. She qualified recorded her first slam MD wins in fifteen months, then put on a QF run that included wins over Madison Keys and Iga Swiatek, with comebacks from 5-0 down in back-to-back sets over the two matches, before falling in three sets to eventual champion Elena Rybakina (Zheng had had a BP chance up 4-3 in the 3rd).

In Beijing, Zheng was a gradually-building steamroller, as the wild card entrant went three sets in her first four matches, defeating Shi Han, Anna Kalinskaya (ret.), Marie Bouzkova (7-5 3rd in 2:54) and Alina Charaeva. On her 24th birthday, Zheng took out Elina Svitolina, then Elise Mertens, in straight sets to reach her first final since the '24 WTAF, becoming the first Chinese player to reach the Chinese Open final (CHN women had been 0-7 in SF), as well as bein gthe first wild card and the lowest-ranked (#54) player to do it.

Rising to the occasion late in both the 1st and 2nd sets against Mirra Andreeva in the final, running off eleven straight points in the 1st and getting a late break/hold combo to close things out in the 2nd, Zheng won her sixth career tour title with a 7-5/6-4 victory, her first singles win since '24 in Tokyo.

14-2 since the start of U.S. Open qualifying, Zheng will jump all the way back up to #23 on Monday.

And, of course, with Zheng's return to the winner's circle, we also get another rendition of Qinwen Karaoke...


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RISER: Mirra Andreeva/RUS
...Andreeva won her maiden slam title at Roland Garros in the spring, but the rest of her season hasn't exactly been headline-making.

The 19-year old has just one Top 10 win on the year (Iga in Stuttgart), and hasn't picked up a 1000 title since taking Indian Wells *last* season. Andreeva won a pair of 500 events (Adelaide/Linz) in the opening months of the season, and was runner-up in the Madrid 1000 some six months ago, but she started off Beijing having gone just 5-5 in non-major events since RG (though she did rise perform well in New York with a QF run at the U.S. Open), and was still missing a second signature moment for her season.

The Hordette threatened to get it in Beijing while running off wins vs. a draw that was, honestly, a notch or so below what one might expect in an event that included eight total Top 10 players (counting Andreeva herself), but ultimately came up just short in her second 1000 final of the season.

Wins over Yuan Yue (w/ love 2nd *and* 3rd sets), Polina Kudermetova, Daria Snigur, Ekaterina Alexandrova and Nikola Bartunkova launched her into her ninth career WTA final with a ten-set winning streak, but it was home favorite Zheng Qinwen who played the "chapionship points" better to close out both ends of a straight sets, 7-5/6-4 win in the title match.

Still, Andreeva's 50 wins and three singles titles are tied for the tour lead, and this week she locked up her maiden WTA Finals berth. She also did enough to climb to a new career high of #3 on Monday, making her the youngest to debut in the Top 3 since Maria Sharapova in 2005.


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SURPRISES: Sinja Kraus/AUT and Ayla Aksu/TUR
...while other Austrians -- namely Anastasia Potapova and Lilli Tagger -- have made more headlines in 2026, this has been a career year for Kraus, as well.

The 24-year old has made her slam MD debuts at the last three majors, reached a pair of 125 finals (winning the second title of her career) and cracked the Top 100, climbing as high as #80 this summer. Beijing provided another door to knock down, as Kraus had her first multi-MD victory tournament at tour level, doing so in a 1000 event after having been 0-4 this season in 1000 1st Round matches (and 0-3 in her slam openers, as well).

Kraus outlasted Maya Joint in a 7-5 3rd in the 1st Round, then advanced after Potapova retired after five games in their all-AUT match-up. She then upset Dayana Yastremska to reach the Round of 16.

Kraus took Nikola Bartunkova to three sets in her attempt for even more, but the young Czech ultimately claimed the "W." Still, the Austrian will jump 20 spots to another new career high at #78.



In Samsun, Turkey, 30-year old Aksu became the second Turk in recent weeks (w/ Berfu Cengiz last month in Ankara) to win a 125 crown, grabbing her biggest career title in what was her second 125 final this season (she lost to Dasha Vidmanova in June).

Eight months after winning what was then her biggest crown (a $75K), Aksu posted wins in Samsun over Emiliana Arango, Alicia Dudeney, Fiona Crawley, Himeno Sakatsume and Lucrezia Stefanini in a three-set final.

Previously a longtime success on the ITF level, where she's won 14 career events in 27 final appearances, Aksu will jump from #210 all the way up the #152, far outdistancing her previous career high of #198.

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VETERANS: Elise Mertens/BEL and Elina Svitolina/UKR
...in Beijing, Mertens continued her thirtysomething resurgence, notching a pair of Top 10 wins and producing her best 1000 result in five years.

The veteran Waffle battled through the early rounds, winning a 7-5 3rd set vs. Katie Volynets and taking down Alona Ostapenko in three. Her 4th Round win over a mentally weary Coco Gauff made Mertens the fifth woman this season with Top 10 wins on all three surfaces (a career first, and her first such win on hard court in three years), and her follow-up upset of Iga Swiatek was her career-best fourth Top 10 win of the season.



Playing in her first 1000 SF since Dubai 2021 (she hadn't reached a QF since Madrid '21), after a 48-event drought at that level, Mertens fell a round short of what would have been her maiden 1000 final in a straight sets loss to Zheng Qinwen.

Already this season, Mertens has reached her first slam QF (Wimbledon) since 2020, as well as posting her best career win over then-#2 Elena Rybakina (also WI), and reached a tour singles final for the tenth straight season. She remains title-less, though, with her last title coming on the grass at Rosmalen in summer '25. Her last title above the 250 level came in Australia in January '21.

The Belgian will rise to #14 in the new rankings, with a shot at reaching her career high of #12 (from 2018) before the end of the season.

Always a double threat, Mertens also reached the WD semis alongside Diana Shnaider in their first pairing since reaching the U.S. Open SF.

Svitolina arrived in Beijing off Ukraine's maiden trip to the BJK Cup Final, then added to her consistent '26 campaign with her 12th QF (in 18 events) of the season (fifth in a 1000) following wins over Katerina Siniakova, Maria Sakkari and Ann Li.



Svitolina lost in the last eight to Zheng Qinwen, but she's likely to be the next to book her spot in the WTA Finals in Indian Wells. She's currently in the #6 spot in the Race, with an 1100 and 1200 point lead on the top two players currently outside the field (Kostyuk and Swiatek) in the Race standings after Beijing. Svitolina hasn't been in the tour championships field since reaching her second straight final in 2019 (she was the champion in '18).
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COMEBACKS: Ekaterina Alexandrova/RUS and Rebecca Sramkova/SVK
...Alexandrova came into Beijing still under .500 at just 17-22 on the season, and close to falling out of the Top 30 after having finished up her first career Top 10 campaign last year.

The veteran Hordette's results started to improve during summer hard courts, a stretch which saw her post wins over Aryna Sabalenka and Marta Kostyuk, and she added a second 1000 QF run (along w/ Toronto) of the season after wins over Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Diana Shnaider and Linda Noskova, her third Top 10 victory of '26 (#22 in her career).



Alexandrova fell in a pair of TB sets vs. countrywoman Mirra Andreeva in the QF. Alexandrova served for both sets, at 5-3 in the 1st (after trailing 3-1) and 6-5 in the 2nd (after trailing 5-3).

9-5 since her retirement loss in the Memphis QF to 16-year old Kristina Liutova, Alexandrova will jump back up to #24 in the new rankings.

In Suzhou, Sramkova posted her best result of an otherwise forgettable season, winning the 125 crown with a 6-3/6-1 win in the final over late-blooming 31-year old Japanese player Kyoka Okamura, who was playing in her biggest career final. The Slovak had notched previous wins on the week over Claire Liu and Renata Zarazua.

It's Sramkova's biggest title since winning her maiden tour-level crown in Hua Hin two years ago (she reached three WTA finals in '24). Before this week she'd only advanced past the 2nd Round in one (a 125 QF in Oeiras in April) of her first 23 events this season.


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FRESH FACE: Nikola Bartunkova/CZE
...Bartunkova's first week success in Beijing carried over well into the second, as the 20-year old Czech followed up her early win over Aryna Sabalenka with wins over Sinja Kraua and Karolina Muchova, advancing in dominant fashion over her countrywoman to pick up her third Top 10 win of the season as she reached both her maiden 1000 QF *and* SF.

Bartunkova fell a round short of the final with a loss to Mirra Andreeva, but will jump four more spots to a new career high of #30.


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ITF WORLD TENNIS: Ane Mintegi del Olmo/ESP and Alisa Oktiabreva/CZE
...both former junior slam winners, both are putting on a show in recent weeks at the challenger level.

Mintegi del Olmo, the Wimbledon girls' champ in 2021, continues to emerge from her injury-riddled last few seasons, this week winning her fourth '26 challenger crown (and second $50K) in Burgas, Bulgaria, outlasting Anastasia Sobolieva and closing out the week with a love 3rd set win to pick up her second straight title.

The 22-year old has now won her last eight challenger singles finals back to November 2023.

In Heraklion (GRE), 18-year old Oktiabreva won her *third* straight challenger title, running her winning streak to 15 matches with a 7-5/6-1 win in the final over Ipek Oz.

The new Czech is now 8-1 in ITF World Tennis finals, going 4-0 in '26.

Oktiabreva won the RG girls' title earlier this year in her junior swan song event, defeating first-week Beijing star Sun Xinran in the final in Paris.


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JUNIOR STAR: Maaya Rajeshwaran/IND
...17-year old Rajeshwaran, the girls' #16 and the winner of two J300 titles this season (and a recent J500 semifinalist in Osaka), claimed her maiden pro titles with a sweep of the singles and doubles in the $35K in Lagos, Portugal.

First-time finalist Rajeshwaran, who had to win a qualifying match to reach the MD, defeated Spain's Celia Cervino Ruiz 6-4/6-2 to take the singles, and teamed with 19-year old Ukrainian Yelyzaveta Kotliar to win the doubles.


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DOUBLES: Gaby Dabrowski/Luisa Stefani, CAN/BRA
...while the doubles duo of the year remains Siniakova/Townsend, with their title run in Beijing the team of Dabrowski/Stefani solidified their position as the season #2 by defeating the only other combo in the conversation -- also featuring Katerina Siniakova, only with Zhang Shuai, who came into the match w/ two titles and a 13-0 season record -- in a 6-1/6-2 final to claim their fifth '26 title (matching the total of Siniakova/Townsend).

The two lost just one set en route to the win (in the SF), knocking off Errani/Paolini, Mertens/Shnaider and the top seeds along the way, ending Siniakova's personal streak of nine consecutive wins in doubles finals.

It's Dabrowski/Stefani's sixth overall title as a duo, with the Canadian claiming the 25th of her career, and Stefani #17.


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[Beijing 3rd Rd. Monday-to-Final]


1. Beijing 4th Rd. - Karolina Muchova def. Naomi Osaka
...7-5/1-6/7-6(7). Even with her brief late summer absence, Muchova has arguably been the most consistent player on tour in 2026, as her latest win over Osaka only further highlighted as she improved her season record in matches in which she wins the 1st set to 34-0.

It took some doing, and much trial and error, for the Czech to keep her record spotless, though.

First, Muchova had to actually *win* the opening set, which she did after having trailed 4-1. After Osaka sent things to the 3rd, Muchova fell behind again at 3-1, only to surge back and reach MP at 5-4. She had five MP chances on Osaka's serve, including three in a row at love/40, but couldn't get the break to close things out.

After two more holds during which the servers lost a total of one point, everything came down to a TB. Muchova went out to a 6-4 lead, and while Osaka never held a MP of her own (getting as close as 6-6 and 7-7) she forced the Czech to use and lose three more MP attempts before finally converting on #9 to win 9-7 and improve to 3-0 vs. Osaka on the season.



Unfortunately, this one seemingly took everything out of Muchova, as she was dominated in the QF by Bartunkova, dropping the first five games of the match, winning three in a row and then losing the last seven in a 6-3/6-0 defeat.
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2. Beijing 3rd Rd. - Iga Swiatek def. Donna Vekic
...4-6/7-6(0)/6-2. Swiatek nearly went the way of Rybakina and Sabalenka in Beijing, but started off the tournament's second week by avoiding an upset, pulling out of a deep hole vs. the veteran Croatian.

Vekic led 6-4/5-2, up a double-break and twice serving for the match (she fell behind love/40 in both games, eventually being broke twice at 15). Once Swiatek survived that, the Pole won her first career 7-0 TB before taking control and putting away the 3rd at 6-2.

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The WTA is and remains the GOAT of unforced errors. Would this have been so hard?


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3. Beijing QF - Elise Mertens def. Iga Swiatek
...7-6(0)/6-3. Of course, in a result emblematic of Swiatek's '26 season, with a shot to pick up real ground in the race for the final spot in the WTAF field, she followed up her 7-0 TB win over Vekic with a 7-0 TB *loss* vs. Mertens two rounds later, as the Belgian picked up her second win in the event (w/ Gauff) over a former Beijing champion.



Swiatek remains around 600 points behind Muchova for the last spot. Race #8 Linda Noskova and #9 Marta Kostyuk are positioned between the two in the standings, but Noskova has assured her spot in the field on the strength of her Wimbledon title whether she holds onto her current final Top 8 spot in the standings or not.


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4. Beijing Final - Zheng Qinwen def. Mirra Andreeva
...7-5/6-4. Zheng surges late to claim both sets in the final, sweeping the final 11 points of the 1st and then breaking Andreeva for a 5-4 lead (on BP #4) in the 2nd before serving out her biggest tour-level title.

Zheng's win prevented Andreeva from moving into first place for the season in titles (she remains tied with Sabalenka and Rybakina w/ three) and match wins (she remains at 50, tied w/ Pegula).


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5. Beijing 3rd Rd. - Coco Gauff def. Sun Xinran
...7-5/6-1. The 16-year old's run ended in the 3rd Round, but she still held the crowd in the palm of her hand with some great moments.



Of course, all that'll be remembered from this match is that with Gauff serving in the 1st set, and Sun leading 5-4, Coco stopped mid-point and asked for a re-playing of the point when a wall of electronic ads flickered in her line of vision as she moved to make a volley. The chair umpire *did* grant the perfectly justified request for a re-play.

Predictably, the moment set off a whole manufactured controversy in which Gauff was hounded as a "cheater," and some declared that Sun had been "robbed of the set." Sun reacted emotionally (i.e. like a normal 16-year old might) to losing the point, and Gauff dominated the match the rest of the way. Naturally, this brought out all the racist social media trolls, as well.

It got so bad that Gauff felt she had to publicly address the landslide of racism sent her way...





Of course, the best answer to it all would have been to go on and win the tournament, but that didn't happen. In her next match, Gauff suffered her worst loss -- 6-3/6-3 to Elise Mertens, against whom she'd been 5-0 -- since February in Doha, as her last eight complete-match losses had all come in three-set affairs. She then announced her withdrawal from Wuhan, where she was the reigning champion.



Credit to Gauff for going public with the abuse. But, still, I honestly don't know why players don't just use social media as a place to post and vent, and simply don't look at the comments and messages from people who are just trying to inflict judgement and pain (which surely *seems* to have gotten to Coco in this case), giving them the sort of power they haven't earned and surely don't deserve.

I know the WTA has done work to try to stop such abuse, but nothing will block it *all* out except for choosing to not give it all the headspace its perpetrators seek. That doesn't mean not calling it all out when it happens, of course. Some cooperation between the tour and the media companies supposedly monitoring such activity would be nice, too. In a perfect world.

Of course, the WTA being the WTA, didn't even come out and make any sort of statement in the middle of this needless mess, once again leaving one of its own to fend for herself without public institutional support at a moment when it would have been appreciated and most needed, not to mention *expected*.

But it's the WTA, so...
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1. $50K Burgas BUL Final - Alena Kovackova/Jana Kovackova def. Maia Ilinca Burcescu/Sonja Zhenikova
...6-4/7-5. Another week, another Crusher all-twins title, as the 18-year old Kovackovas improve to 9-0 in career pro finals.

They won the '25 U.S. Open and '26 AO together, and Jana went on this year to claim three girls' doubles majors, becoming the first to complete a Career Girls' Doubles Slam.
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And from the WTA... (crickets)




Also, I wouldn't recommend reading any of the comments on the threads concerning Gauff, either, as you quickly lose brain cells the longer you subject yourself to such trash.


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*2020-26 WTA SINGLES TITLES*
26 - 1/2/8/6/5/3/1 = Iga Swiatek
19 - 3/2/0/3/4/4/3 = Aryna Sabalenka
12 - 1/0/1/2/3/3/2 = Elena Rybakina
11 - 0/1/0/4/3/2/1 = Coco Gauff
10 - 0/0/1/2/2/3/2 = Jessie Pegula
9 - 0/3/2/2/1/0/1 = Barbora Krejcikova
8 - 1/5/2 = Ash Barty (ret.)
7 - 2/1/0/1/0/1/2 = Elina Svitolina
6 - 0/0/0/0/1/2/3 = Mirra Andreeva
6 - 0/1/1/2/0/2/0 = Belinda Bencic
6 - 0/1/1/1/0/2/1 = Leylah Fernandez
6 - 0/2/2/0/2/0/0 = Dasha Kasatkina
6 - 0/0/1/1/1/2/1 = Madison Keys
6 - 0/1/1/1/2/1/0 = Alona Ostapenko
6 - 0/0/0/2/3/0/1 = ZHENG QINWEN

*MOST WTA FINALS in 2026*
5 - MIRRA ANDREEVA (3-2)
5 - Elena Rybakina (3-2)
5 - Aryna Sabalenka (3-2)
5 - Jessie Pegula (2-3)
4 - Karolina Muchova (2-2)
3 - Marta Kostyuk (2-1)
3 - Elina Svitolina (2-1)
3 - Coco Gauff (1-2)
3 - Victoria Mboko (0-3)

*MOST WTA SF in 2026*
8 - Jessie Pegula (5-3)
7 - Coco Gauff (3-4)
7 - Elina Svitolina (3-4)
6 - MIRRA ANDREEVA (5-1)
6 - Elena Rybakina (5-1)
6 - Aryna Sabalenka (5-1)
6 - Karolina Muchova (4-2)
5 - Marta Kostyuk (3-2)
5 - Iva Jovic (2-3)

*2026 WTA DOUBLES TITLES*
7 - Katerina Siniakova
6 - Taylor Townsend
5 - GABY DABROWSKI
5 - LUISA STEFANI
4 - Zhang Shuai
3 - Maia Lumsden
3 - Aldila Sutjiadi
[duos]
5...Siniakova/Townsend
5...DABROWSKI/STEFANI
2...Dart/Lumsden
2...Guo/Mladneovic
2...Routliffe/Sutjiadi
2...Siniakova/Zhang
[2020-26 - individuals]
32 - Katerina Siniakova (1/6/6/3/5/4/7)
17 - Taylor Townsend (1/0/0/3/3/4/6)
17 - LUISA STEFANI (1/1/2/3/1/4/5)
16 - GABY DABROWSKI (0/1/3/2/2/3/5)
15 - Barbora Krejcikova (1/5/3/4/1/1/0)
15 - Elise Mertens (1/4/2/2/3/2/1)
14 - Nicole Melichar-Martinez (2/2/2/0/3/3/2)
14 - Erin Routliffe (0/1/1/3/3/4/2)
[2020-26 - duos]
14..Krejcikova/Siniakova (1/5/3/3/1/1/0)
9...Errani/Paolini (0/0/0/1/4/4/0)
8...Aoyama/Shibahara (1/5/0/2/0/0/0)
8...Siniakova/Townsend (0/0/0/0/2/1/5)
7...Dabrowski/Routliffe (0/0/0/2/2/3/0)
7...DABROWSKI/STEFANI (0/1/1/0/0/0/5)
7...Siegemund/Zvonareva (1/0/2/4/0/0/0)

*2026 WTA DOUBLES FINALS*
8 (7-1) = KATERINA SINIAKOVA
6 (6-0) = Taylor Townsend
6 (5-1) = GABY DABROWSKI
6 (5-1) = LUISA STEFANI
6 (3-3) = Maia Lumsden
6 (4-2) = ZHANG SHUAI
5 (2-3) = Nicole Melichar-Martinez
[2026 finals - duos]
6...DABROWSKI/STEFANI (5-1)
5...Siniakova/Townsend (5-0)
4...Danilina/Krunic (1-3)
3...SINIAKOVA/ZHANG (2-1)
3...Maleckova/Skoch (1-2)





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Sunday, October 04, 2026

Wk.39- From Beijing with Love (& Upsets)











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*WEEK 39 CHAMPIONS*
Jingshan, China (WTA 125; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Alexandra Shubladze/RUS def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro/ESP 6-3/6-2
D: Madeleine Brooks/Amelia Rajecki (GBR/GBR) def. Sofya Lansere/Alexandra Shubladze (BLR/BLR) 6-7(5)/7-6(1) [10-6]
Adana, Turkey (WTA 125; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Leolia Jeanjean/FRA def. Lois Boisson/FRA 7-6(3)/4-6/6-4
D: Angelica Moratelli/Vendula Valdmannova (ITA/CZE) def. Dalila Jakupovic/Lara Salden (SLO/BEL) 7-6(3)/6-4
ASIAN GAMES (Nagoya, JPN; Hard Court Outdoor)
WS Gold: Wang Xiyu/CHN def. Zhang Shuai/CHN 6-2/6-1
WS Bronze: Alex Eala/PHI and Yulia Putintseva/KAZ
WD Gold: Hsieh Su-wei/Liang En-shuo (TPE) def. Chan Hao-ching/Wu Fang-hsien (TPE) 6-4/4-6 [10-5]
WD Bronze: Eudice Chong/Wong Hong Yi (HKG), Anna Danilina/Yulia Putintseva (KAZ)
MX Gold: Ena Shibahara/Jay Friend (JPN) def Shuko Aoyama/Yusuke Kusuhara (JPN) 6-3/6-4
MX Bronze: Jiang Xinyu/Zhang Tianhui (CHN), Hsieh Su-wei/Tseng Chun-hsin (TPE)



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[Beijing Q/1st-3rd Rd. Sunday]




RISERS: Wang Xiyu/CHN and Daria Snigur/UKR
...in Nagoya, Japan, the Asian Games' tennis competition took place in a scheduling situation reminiscent of the Paralympics' wheelchair tennis event, which is always held at a time that conflicts with the U.S. Open, preventing the rollers from participating in what is arguably *the* biggest annual WC event of the season. This year's AG schedule meant that any of the continent's top women's players who participated would be prevented from taking part in the Asian swing's biggest tournament stop in Beijing. This year's field included Alex Eala as the lone Top 50 player in the field likely for this very reason.

As it was, Eala won her second straight Bronze medal, losing to Wang Xiyu in the SF, while Yulia Putintseva shared the honor (after a SF loss to Zhang Shuai) to become the first player from Kazakhstan to win a tennis medal at the Asian Games (she went on to also claim a WD Bronze alongside Anna Danilina).

In the singles final, Wang defeated Zhang 6-2/6-1 to make this the sixth consecutive AG at which a Chinese player has won the women's singles Gold (she's the fifth *different* CHN woman to do it). Wang secures her spot in the 2028 Olympic field with the win, while Zhang wins her second straight Silver.



Speaking of schedules, with the WTA's just-announced 2027 slate including a first-time tour-level stop in Manila, where Eala is *sure* to want to take part, if the Filipina should be in the position to qualify for next year's WTAF (which will have to alter format somewhat to fit into its new five-day cubicle) she'd have to make a quick turnaround with *that* event taking place immediately after Manila... half way around the globe in North Carolina.

Meanwhile, Snigur put together back-to-back comeback victories in Beijing to reach the 3rd Round at a 1000 event for the first time.

The Ukrainian rallied from a set down and 4-2 in the 3rd to nip Katarzyna Kawa in a 7-5 3rd set in the 1st Round, then defeated Jasmine Paolini from a set and 4-2 down in a 2nd set TB to win in three in the 2nd Round.

It's just another item added to the career resume of the 2019 Wimbedon girls' champ. In '26, Snigur has already put up her highest match win total (43 after the 2r) in a season, cracked the Top 50, reached her first tour-level final (Prague) as well as another SF (Cluj), posted her best result in a major (Wimbledon 3rd, with an upset of #8 Svitolina) and won her biggest-ever singles title in a 125 in Oeiras in February.


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SURPRISES: Alina Charaeva/ARM and Alexandra Shubladze/RUS
...in what has been her best season as a pro, Charaeva added a career-making highlight in Beijing with an upset of new #1 Elena Rybakina in the Kazakh's first match since taking over the top spot.

Ranked #118, the 24-year old Aremenian (the '20 RG girls' RU) had already reached a pair of WTA QF in '26 and won her biggest title in a 125 (February in Midland).

She posted a win over Yuliia Starodubtseva in the 1st Round before her three-set upset of Rybakina, the first-ever victory by an Armenian over a world #1. Former Hordette Charaeva only began representing Armenia this summer.



Meanwhile, 21-year old Hordette Shubladze's breakout campaign (at least on the lower levels) added another benchmark with her first career 125 title in Jingshan, China.

Shubladze has been a star on the challenger circuit in '26, topping the season title list (w/ Brit Alicia Dudeney) with five wins after breezing through a 34-5 stretch from February through May. But she's yet to make her tour-level MD debut.

Shubladze got a little bit closer to that in Jingshan, posting wins over #3-seeded Emerson Jones (SF) and top seed Jessica Bouzas Maneiro in a 6-3/6-2 final. 55-15 on the year, she'll rise to a new "live" career high of #133 before the next rankings arrive in two Mondays, while looking to (hopefully) get a chance soon to play her first WTA MD contest.



Shubladze also reached the doubles final in Jingshan (w/ Sofya Lansere), losing to Brits Madeleine Brooks & Amelia Rajecki in a 10-6 MTB (after splitting a pair of TB sets).
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VETERAN: Leolia Jeanjean/FRA
...the 31-year old Pastry reached and won her first 2026 singles final (she'd been 0-3 in ITF/125 SF) at the 125 in Adana, Turkey, winning an all-French battle with Lois Boisson.

Having posted MD wins at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open for the first time in her career this summer, Jeanjean followed up her 125 SF in Barranquilla last month with wins over Suzan Lamens, Lucrezia Stefanini and top-seeded Antonia Ruzic to reach the final, where she battled Boisson through three sets, ultimately taking the title after having squandered numerous earlier opportunities to get out with the win.

Jeanjean had led the match by a set and 4-2, but lost four straight games (after a rain suspension w/ Boisson up 5-4), then failed to serve things out at 5-3 in the 3rd, holding a MP. Finally, after Boisson had taken a 40/love lead on serve at 5-4, Jeanjean rallied to finally salt away the title on her third MP chance.

The win, Jeanjean's biggest career title and her first singles crown on any level since 2024, moves her back into the Top 100 in the "live" rankings.


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COMEBACKS: Sonay Kartal/GBR and Lois Boisson/FRA
...Kartal got out of this season's opening gate in fine form, opening at 12-5 with QF in Auckland and Abu Dhabi, and reaching the Round of 16 at Indian Wells following wins over Emma Navarro and Madison Keys. But the Brit retired in that 4th Round match vs. Elena Rybakina with a back injury, and then didn't see the court again until the BJK Cup Finals event two weeks ago. As it turned out, it was Kartal who claimed the only set lost by the title-winning Czechs over three rounds (going 6-0 in singles) in a three-set loss to Marie Bouzkova.

In Beijing, where Kartal reached the QF in '25, she put up early round wins over Andrea Lazaro García and Wang Xinyu before she'll face off not with Rybakina again in the 3rd Round, but the world #1's 2nd Round conqueror Alina Charaeva.



In Adana, Turkey, Boisson posted her best result since her latest return from injury.

A RG semifinalist last year after recovering from a knee injury, Boisson picked up her maiden tour title last July in Hamburg before being sidelined yet again in the fall with another leg injury, which was followed by knee and elbow issues during the offseason. She made her return to the court in April, but came into the week at just 4-12 in her comeback and having fallen all the way down to #274.

After a qualifying loss to Fiona Crawley, Boisson entered the MD as a lucky loser and went on a season-making (so far) run, posting four additional wins (giving her five for the week, more than she'd had all season) over the likes of Lucia Bronzetti, Martyna Kubka, Anna Blinkova (her new fellow Pastry) and Erika Andreeva to set up an all-FRA final with Leolia Jeanjean.



In the title match, Boisson forced a 3rd set from 6-3/4-2 down, and denied Jeanjean when she served for the win at 5-3 in the 3rd (w/ a MP). But after taking a 40/love lead while trying to hold and knot the decider at 5-5, Boisson couldn't slow Jeanjean down the stretch, as she ultimately came back to get the break and converted on her third MP chance.
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FRESH FACES: Sun Xinran/CHN and Nikola Bartunkova/CZE
...16-year old Sun had to work a bit to finally reach her goal on the junior circuit, as the girls' #1 fell in both the RG and Wimbledon junior finals earlier this year before finally claiming her maiden major title at the U.S. Open. She didn't need extra chances when it came to her tour-level debut.

A wild card entrant in Beijing, Sun dominated Eva Lys in the 1st Round before the German finally retired mid-way through the 2nd set, then the teenager followed up with an even biggest upset, carried off with just as much ease, over Cristina Bucsa to set up an experience-building match-up with none other than Coco Gauff in the 3rd Round.



Meanwhile, might Bartunkova be the next Czech who'll be making big waves in the late stages of big events come 2027? If so, she's already getting a head start on things.

Though she reached a SF at the Guadalajara 500 *last* year, 2026 has been the season during which the 20-year old has introduced herself to the majority of the tour. She reached the 3rd Round in her AO (getting a Top 10 win in just her second MD match in a major, def. Bencic), Wimbledon and U.S. slam debuts, as well as the Rome 4th Round in her first career 1000 MD appearance. With her wins in Beijing, Bartunkova has posted at least one win in each of her first 1000 MD appearances (in Rome, Toronto, Cincinnati and this week).

Installed as the #26 seed, after a victory over Magdalena Frech, Bartunkova slammed the hammer down on far bigger prey in the form of #2 Aryna Sabalenka, handing the Belarusian a rare straight sets defeat, 6-4/6-3, for the biggest win of her career.


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ITF WORLD TENNIS: Tatjana Maria/GER and Lisa Pigato/ITA
...still at it and getting results, 39-year old Maria claimed her sixth career $100K crown in this week's event in Templeton, California. She won her first 19 years ago in 2007, defeating a 17-year old Petra Kvitova in Slovakia in what was then the Czech's biggest final (four years before she'd win at SW19).

Maria won an all-thirtysomething final over 36-year old Madison Brengle, 6-3/6-4. The match comes 17 years after the first meeting of the two, in the final round of Wimbledon qualifying in 2009.

The German won a 125 title on the grass at Newport earlier this summer, after having reached the final at tour-level Eastbourne. Currently, the only older player in the women's singles Top 250 is 40-year old Varvara Lepchenko.

And, just off her second 125 title run of the season, 23-year old Pigato picked up her third win at the challenger level with a three-set victory over Eva Vedder in the $75K in Quinta do Lago, Portugal.

Prior to the win in the final that extended her winning streak to ten matches, the Italian had posted wins over Polona Hercog and Katie Swan. She's at a "live" career high of #107 as she looks to crack the Top 100 by the end of the season.


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JUNIOR STAR: Jordyn Hazelitt/USA
...I forgot to include this one last weekend, so it's a little late, but belated congratulations to 16-year old Bannerette Hazelitt for claiming her biggest career junior title at the J500 event in Osaka, where she swept both the singles and doubles, losing just one set in each draw (2 of a 20 combined sets).

The girls' #11, Hazelitt defeated Japan's Miyu Nishiwaki 6-3/6-2 in the final, and teamed with India's Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi to claim the doubles honors.



Hazelitt won the North American Regional Championships (J300) in San Diego in March, and during the summer made her slam qualifying debut at this year's U.S. Open after winning the USTA's Qualifying Wild Card Challenger event (def. eventual girls' semifinalist Melije Clarke in the final).
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DOUBLES: Hsieh Su-wei/Liang En-shou (TPE/TPE) and Ena Shibahara/JPN
...the thought that the longtime feud between Hsieh and the Chan sisters might add another chapter at this year's Asian Games was present at the start of the doubles in Nagoya, even before Chan arrived in Japan after last week winning a tour-level title in Seoul. And we got just that.

In the Gold medal final, Hsieh and Liang En-shuo defeated Chan Hao-ching (seeking to defend the Gold she won with her sister at the last AG held in 2023) in a MTB to claim the top spot on the doubles podium for the first time. Hsieh has often been denied the opportunity for such team representation due to the presence of the Chan sisters (Latisha is now retired), which has played a large part in the combative nature of their situation.

And if one was hoping that the "national spirit" of the AG and/or the thrill of winning Gold would cause Hsieh to throw up a white flag when the duos met at the net, well, then disappointment ruled the moment, as Hsieh left Chan hanging when she offered her hand in congratulation, and then turned and walked away without a word.



Hsieh also won a Bronze in the Mixed Doubles, but didn't have the opportunity to defeat Chan along the way.

Once again, here's the long history of the bitter (and still ongoing) feud between Hsieh and the Chan family...



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In the Mixed Doubles final, Shibahara teamed with Jay Friend to win her maiden Asian Games medal, taking the Gold with a 6-3/6-4 victory over another Japanese pair, Shuko Aoyama and Yusuke Kusuhara.



Shibahara and Aoyama have teamed up to win ten tour-level WD titles over the years, including a pair of 1000 crowns in Miami (2021) and Montreal (2023), as well as reaching the AO23 final (a loss to two Czechs... you can probably guess their names).
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WHEELCHAIR: Diede de Groot/NED
...de Groot extended her post-U.S. Open final defeat winning streak to six with a title run in Biot, France in the French Riviera Open 1000.

De Groot lost just fifteen games over four rounds with wins over Angelica Bernal, Lizzy de Greef and Guo Luoyao in a 6-2/6-2 final.

It's de Groot's fifth singles title in '26, tying Barcelona for the biggest behind her Roland Garros win (her first major crown since WI '24, and her first such post-hip surgery run).
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1. Beijing 1st Rd. - Alina Charaeva def. Elena Rybakina
...3-6/6-4/6-3. Rybakina has been pretty busy since winning the U.S. Open and rising to #1, and this was the first indication that it all might not have prepared her for a return to the court (also, apparently her allergies may have been acting up, as well).

She's still unlikely to lose her tight grip on the season-ending #1 ranking, but one of the things that would have to happen -- her going winless in a big event, with so many 4Q points to defend -- happened in Beijing as she fell in her first official match in the top spot to #118-ranked Charaeva. It's the second-lowest ranked win over a world #1 this decade (topped only by the back-from-injury #164-ranked Vondrousova's victory over Sabalenka last year), and Charaeva is apparently *the* lowest-ranked player to ever rally from a set down to defeat a world #1.

Rybakina finished '25 with only a 3rd Round in Beijing (so no great points loss), but did reach a Wuhan QF, won Ningbo, played in the Tokyo SF and got the WTAF title in her great season-ending close.


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2. Beijing 3rd Rd. - Nikola Bartunkova def. Aryna Sabalenka
...6-4/6-3. A day after Rybakina loses, Sabalenka follows her out the door, failing to take advantage of the opportunity. A title run from the world #2 would have cut Rybakina's 2200-point lead in the rankings to about 1200.

This early exit officially meets Sabalenka's quota of the last few seasons, as it's just her second pre-4th Round exit (along w/ Rome 3r) in an event in 2026. She had a pair of such early exits in both the 2024 and '25 seasons.


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3. Beijing 1st Rd. - Sun Xinran def. Eva Lys
...6-1/3-0 ret. In her tour MD debut, 16-year old junior #1 Sun makes quick work of Lys, whose woeful '26 campaign continues as her mid-2nd set retirement drops her to 8-19 on the year. The German's "live" ranking has dropped outside the Top 130.



Sun reached the girls' singles final at the last three majors, finally winning her first last month at the U.S. Open.
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4. Beijing 1st Rd. - Paula Badosa def. Dasha Kasatkina
...4-6/7-6(7)/6-4. After a fast start, Kasatkina continued to battle, only to lose again as her season record falls to 20-20.

Kasatkina took the 1st, and held a 5-2 lead in the 2nd set TB. Badosa knotted the match with a 9-7 win on her third SP.

Badosa rallied from 4-2 back in the 3rd, sweeping the final four games. The Spaniard had lost her serve on her first three service games in the set, but ultimately ended things by breaking Kasatkina in *her* last three attempts to hold (and four of the last five).



The loss is the fifth straight for Kasatkina, the second in the stretch vs. Badosa (who won their 1st Rd. U.S. Open match-up). Since the Aussie won a straight sets match in the RG 2nd Round over Susan Bandecchi, she's gone 5-11. In all five of those victories she had to go to three sets to get the win, coming back from dropping the 1st set four times. In other words, Kasatkina has been *this close* to a 1-15 slide.
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5. Beijing 2nd Rd. - Alona Ostapenko def. Paula Badosa
...7-6(5)/7-5. A round later, Badosa fell victim to the Ostapenko flow for the fourth time in their last five meetings, as the Latvian rallied from 5-3 down in the 1st and 2nd sets (w/ the Spaniard also serving for the match in *both*) to win in straights.


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6. Beijing 1st Rd. - Sinja Kraus def. Maya Joint
...6-3/3-6/7-5. Arriving after a run to the Seoul final during which she'd trailed in the 1st Roudn vs. Yao Xinxin by a 6-2/5-1 score (and saved three MP in three different games), Joint didn't escape the early trap in Beijijng. The Aussie denied Kraus a MP at 5-4 in the 3rd, but then lost her serve a game later before the Austrian served out the win.


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7. Beijing 3rd Rd. - Karolina Muchova d. Liudmila Samsonova 4-6/6-4/6-2
Beijing 3rd Rd. - Linda Noskova def. Viktorija Golubic 6-2/6-1
...both of the players who led the charge in Shenzhen to the latest Czech Cup triumph have carried over their roll into Beijing, with Muchova following up a 2nd Round win over Katie Boulter (the two didn't play in the CZE/GBR QF tie last week) with a come from behind truimph over Samsonova (who once again comes up just short of adding a big "get" to give the Flip a "signature" moment).

Meanwhile, Noskova has allowed just eight total games to Gabriela Ruse and Golubic in Beijing, improving her mark to 11-3 since winning Wimbledon.


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8. Beijing 1st Rd. - Janice Tjen def. Anhelina Kalinina
...2-6/7-5/6-4. Tjen outlasts Kalinina, just in from the BJK Cup final in Shenzhen, in both the 2nd and 3rd sets after they'd been tied up at 4-4. Tjen got the break for 5-4 in the 3rd on her fifth BP chance, then served out the victory at love.
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9. Beijing 1st Rd. - Yuan Yue def. Oleksandra Oliynykova
...6-2/6-3. Doing the Tennis Gods' work.

Yuan quickly dispenses with Oliynykova at the start of MD play, surely now giving the attention-seeking Ukrainian still more time to nitpick and condemn as many players in her off-hours as possible.

Not that long ago, of course, she'd disparaged countrywoman Anhelina Kalinina for teaming up in doubles at the U.S. Open with Hungarian Anna Bondar (remember, she'd played in that Russian exhibition years ago) rather than a Ukrainian, as well as attacking the likes of Nadiia Kichenkok and Yuliia Starodubtseva (who snapped back, BTW) for having Russian friends on tour.

Of course, Oliynykova, the UKR #6, was left off the nation's recent BJK squad, though Kalinina and the *other* Kichenok sister (Lyudmyla) *were* included, ultimately leading to Ukraine's first appearance in the Cup final.

Hmmm, I can't imagine why Oliynykova wouldn't be asked to participate, I mean, since any such effort is *always* more successful if the team members have to worry about being publicly ridiculed (in an attempt to shame) by a fellow squad member because anything and everything they do or say doesn't meet with *her* approval, right?
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10. Beijing 2nd Rd. - Zheng Qinwen def. Anna Kalinskaya
...6-7(4)/6-4/3-0 ret. Another week, another Kalinskaya retirement. This gives her three retirements/walkovers in '26, and runs to number of tournaments exited under such circustances to *24* since the start of the 2021 season.

Kalinskaya had claimed the 1st set after trailing 5-3 and seeing Zheng serve for the set.
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HM- $35K Baza ESP Final - Charo Esquiva Banuls def. Valentina Ivanov 6-0/6-1
$15K Monastir TUN Final - Ekaterina Dotsenko def. Sophia Biolay 6-3/6-1
$15K Varna BUL Final - Giulia Safina Popa def. Sonja Zhenikova 6-2/6-3
...the three teenagers followed up their challenger title runs last week by continuing their winning ways this time around.

18-year old Spaniard Esquiva Banuls extended her winning streak to ten matches with her second career title run (both in the last two weeks). She reached the U.S. Open girls' QF last year, and the last eight in the RG juniors this past spring.

In Monastir, 14-year old Hordette Dotsenko also won *her* second straight title, having reached the final in all three of her events played at the pro level in '26 (going 14-1 over the past three weeks). She reached a pair of junior slam QF this season, losing to Alisa Oktiabreva (the eventual RG champ) in Paris and Anna Pushkareva (the WI jr. champ) in New York.



And after winning in Simona Halep's hometown of Constanta last week, 16-year old Romanian Popa won her *third* straight challenger title in Varna, extending her winning streak to 15 matches since the start of September. Popa has won four pro titles in '26.

From last week's title run...


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So with the shortening of the length of the WTA Finals, there will be some sort of format change. Clearly it'll move away from round robin to knock-out, which I personally prefer. It'd be great if they could find a way to use this to maybe increase the player field from the current eight, maybe by giving the Top 2 (or 4) seeds opening round byes.

Let's just hope they don't try to be "groundbreaking" and change playing out full 3rd set to a gimmicky first-to-10-points format or something stupid like that.

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TRUTH: All praise and appreciation to Muchova, but *I've* actually had to hit that shot -- 360-and-all -- several times in the past (the first one, of course, but not the second one... unfortunately) while charging the net trying to do a Novotna imitation. In Muchova's bag of tricks, it's a flashy, but still fairly minor, highlight.












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*LOW-RANKED WINS OVER #1 - 2020-26*
#164 - 2025 Berlin SF - Marketa Vondrousova/CZE (Sabalenka)-W
#118 - 2026 Beijing 2r - Alina Charaeva/ARM (Rybakina)
#76 - 2023 Wimbledon QF - Elina Svitolina/UKR (Swiatek)
#71 - 2021 Charleston QF - Paula Badosa/ESP (Barty)
#53 - 2020 Brisbane 2r - Jennifer Brady/USA (Barty)
#50 - 2024 Australian Open 3r - Linda Noskova/CZE (Swiatek)

*ASIAN GAMES SINGLES MEDALISTS (since 1994)*
[Gold]
1994 Kimiko Date, JPN
1998 Yayuk Basuki, JPN
2002 Iroda Tulyaganova, UZB
2006 Zheng Jie, CHN
2010 Peng Shuai, CHN
2014 Wang Qiang, CHN
2018 Wang Qiang, CHN
2023 Zheng Qinwen, CHN
2026 Wang Xiyu, CHN
[Silver]
1994 Naoko Sawamatsu, JPN
1998 Tamarine Tanasugarn, THA
2002 Tamarine Tanasugarn, THA
2006 Sania Mirza, IND
2010 Akgul Amanmuradova, UZB
2014 Luksika Kumkhum, THA
2018 Zhang Shuai, CHN
2023 Zhu Lin, CHN
2026 Zhang Shuai, CHN
[Bronze(tie)]
1994 Yayuk Basuki/INA and Chen Li/CHN
1998 Li Fang/CHN and Yi Jingqian/CHN
2002 Shinobu Asagoe/JPN and Choo Yoon-jeon/KOR
2006 Li Na/CHN and Aiko Nakamura/JPN
2010 Kimiko Date-Krumm/JPN and Sania Mirza/IND
2014 Misa Eguchi/JPN and Eri Hozumi/JPN
2018 Ankita Raina/IND and Liang En-shou/TPE
2023 Alex Eala/PHI and Haruka Kaji/JPN
2026 Alex Eala/PHI and Yulia Putintseva/KAZ

*ASIAN GAMES DOUBLES GOLD MEDALISTS (since 1994)*
[WD]
1994 Kyoko Nagatsuka/Ai Sugiyama, JPN
1998 Li Fang/Chen Li, CHN
2002 Kim Mi-ok/Choi Young-ja, KOR
2006 Zheng Jie/Yan Zi, CHN
2010 Latisha Chan/Chuang Chia-jung, TPE
2014 Luksika Kumkhum/Tamarine Tanasugarn, THA
2018 Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan, CHN
2023 Chan Hao-ching/Latisha Chan, TPE
2026 Hsieh Su-wei/Liang En-shuo, TPE
[MX]
1994 Li Fang/Xia Jiaping, CHN
1998 Nana Miyagi/Satoshi Iwabuchi, JPN
2002 Janet Lee/Lu Yen-hsun, TPE
2006 Sania Mirza/Leander Paes, IND
2010 Latisha Chan/Yang Tsung-hua, TPE
2014 Sania Mirza/Sakath Myneni, IND
2018 Aldila Sutjiadi/Christopher Rungkat, INA
2023 Rutuja Bhosale/Rohan Bopanna, IND
2026 Ena Shibahara/Jay Friend, JPN





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