Sunday, October 25, 2026

Wk.42- Ridin' with Rybakina

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*WEEK 42 CHAMPIONS*
NINGBO, CHINA (WTA 500; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Elena Rybakina/KAZ def. Leylah Fernandez/CAN 6-2/6-2
WD: Desirae Krawczyk/Fanny Stollar (USA/HUN) def. Cristina Bucsa/Nicole Melichar-Martinez (ESP/USA) 7-6(5)/5-7 [10-6]
OSAKA, JAPAN (WTA 250; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Katerina Siniakova/CZE def. Ashlyn Krueger/USA 6-1/6-0
WD: Storm Hunter/Janice Tjen (AUS/INA) def. Jesika Maleckova/Miriam Skoch (CZE/CZE) 6-4/6-1




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Elena Rybakina/KAZ
...Rybakina hasn't been *spectacular* since picking up her U.S. Open title and elevating to the #1 ranking, but she hasn't *had* to be. Even with a loss in Beijing to the world #118 (Alina Charaeva in Beijing) in her only post-NYC match, her season -- the best on tour in 2026 -- spoke for itself. She didn't *have* to successfully defend her title in Ningbo to confirm her recognition as the best player of 2026, but she went out and did it anyway.

Coasting into the WTA Finals and a well-deserved offseason in a few weeks time, Rybakina wasn't necessarily forced to call upon her "A"-game to succeed in her return to the Chinese port city. Her opening opponent, Polina Kudermetova, retired after dropping the first five games of their match. But after getting a surprise challenge from Polish veteran Katarzyna Kawa in the QF, being taken to three sets, Rybakina settled into a groove from which she was never jarred for what remained of the tournament. She handled Kawa in a 6-1 decider, then dispatched both Diana Shnaider (SF) and Leylah Fernandez (F), who has often given the Kazakh trouble in the past, in straight sets to claim her 15th career WTA crown.

Rybakina's victory (lap) in her tour-best sixth final this season gives her a tour-best four titles in '26, and puts her atop the match win list, as well. Not that she needed such stats to back up her career and WTA-best campaign, but at least she's now got that goin' for her, too. Which is nice.


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RISERS: Leylah Fernandez/CAN and Ann Li/USA
...already with a title run (in Singapore) during the Asian swing, Fernandez's fine late-season form and results continued into Ningbo, where the Canadian overcame early-round challenges to reach another 500 final and finally lift her season won/lost record over .500 in 2026.

Fernandez had to rally from 5-3 down in the 3rd vs. Elise Mertens in her opening match, then defeated Aliaksandra Sasnovich and Ekaterina Alexandrova (the latter from a set down) in three before a straight sets win over Marie Bouzkova in what was just her second WTA SF this year (coming just four weeks after her first) to reach her tenth career tour-level title match.

After having a history of success and/or close contests vs. Elena Rybakina, Fernandez couldn't replicate such heriocs this time around in their first meeting in a final as well the first with the Kazakh residing in the #1 ranking, losing 2 & 2.

After falling in the 1st Round of the season's first three majors, Fernandez's 3rd Round result at the U.S. Open kicked off what has become her best stretch of the year, a 13-4 run (11-3 in Asia), that has given her a winning season record for the first time in 2026. After coming into the week at 24-25, Fernandez now stands at 28-26 with the finish line just around the corner.

The Canadian has never completed a pro season in which she posted an overall losing record.



Li's Asian swing hasn't included a title run (unlike a year ago), but she's compiled an 8-3 mark over her last three events, including Round of 16 and QF runs in back-to-back 1000s in Beijing and Wuhan, to which she added this week a SF in the Osaka 250.

With wins over Emerson Jones, Zeynep Sonmez and Lilli Tagger (via a 7-0 3rd set TB), Li reached her third tour SF of the season. She fell there in three sets in an all-Bannerette match-up with Ashlyn Krueger.

Even with her success in Osaka, though, Li will slip a bit in the rankings (from #25 to #31) on Monday since she's exchanging points with a title run in this same week *last* year in Guangzhou.

Looking for some important additional points in order to significantly improve her potential seed at next year's AO (she'll have zero points to defend until the end of the season, and nothing in Week 1 of '27 before the AO seeding cutout), Li is scheduled to play in both Tokyo and Hong Kong in the final two regular season weeks of 2026.

Li was a low seed at the final three majors (#30-#28-#29) of this season.


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VETERANS: Katerina Siniakova/CZE and Katarzyna Kawa/POL
...Siniakova's tennis abilities have never been in question. She's been one of the great doubles players the tour has ever seen, checking off more than a few never-been-done-before career accomplishments, with at least one (most weeks at #1) potentially on deck for 2027. But while she's often flashed similar talent in her singles game, the Czech has never been able to fly *quite* as high as a solo act. Why has always been something of a mystery, but any discussion of the Czech's singles career eventually comes back to things we often hear in regards to so many WTA players in anything resembling similar predicaments...



Hence, Siniakova's prowess in doubles and mixed, as well as in various team competitions when she has an entire roster of Czechs to keep her on task.

Ultimately, in a week in which she sat out the doubles and only played singles, Siniakova rarely faced the sort of adversity that might trigger her more emotional responses. She only dropped one set all week, a love 2nd in the 1st Round against #2 seed Peyton Stearns. But the Bannerette wasn't able to offer up full resistence in the deciding set, when the Czech's mettle would have been truly tested, as Stearns retired after dropping the first four games.

From there, Siniakova coasted to the title, running off straight sets wins over Magda Linette, Moyuka Uchijima, Mary Stoiana and Katie Boulter, then dropping just one game in a dominant performance in the final vs. Ashlyn Krueger. After a rain suspension just three games into the match, Siniakova swept the final ten games when the players returned to the court, winning 1 & love to claim her sixth tour singles title, her first since taking Jiangxi three years ago this month.

With the win, Siniakova will climb back into the Top 50 (from #86), becoming the seventh-ranked of seven Czechs there. Another, Karolina Pliskova, will be at #51 on Monday. Siniakova's late-season run in Asia a year ago accomplished the same, as she was barely holding onto a Top 80 ranking in mid-September, but Seoul SF and Wuhan QF results lifted her into the #40s a month later and ultimately secured her fifth consecutive Top 50 season (and 8th in 9 years).

At #49 on Monday, with this result, Siniakova is angling to keep that streak alive.



Meanwhile, a week after Maja Chwalinska outperformed fellow Pole Iga Swiatek in Wuhan to bolster what had already been her career season, in Ningbo it was Kawa adding to what has become her own at nearly age 34, sixteen years after she made her tour-level qualifying debut as a 17-year old wild card in Warsaw in 2010 (a loss to Anna Chakvetadze, BTW... giving me the chance to report the rare-but-always-welcome Chakvetadze Sighting in this space).



Kawa qualified with wins over Katie Volynets and Daria Snigur, then posted MD victories over Snigur (again) and Belinda Bencic, the latter her first career Top 30 victory. It put the Polish vet into her first career WTA hard court QF (she lists clay and grass as her favorite surfaces, so I guess it goes to reason), where she pushed world #1 Elena Rybakina to three sets before her eventual defeat.

2026 has seen Kawa be a member of Poland's United Cup title back in January, followed by her first (in May) and second (in June) 125 singles crowns in her third/fourth career 125 finals (her first came in November '24, just after turning 32). Her Ningbo QF matches her run in Bogota for her best WTA result of the season. Kawa has reached a pair of tour finals in her career, the first seven years ago in Jurmala (LAT), and the second last season in Bogota.

Now, less than a month from her 34th birthday (Nov.17), with her on Monday rising to a career high ranking of #106 (surpassing her #112 spot in 2020), Kawa is staring down the chance to become the second-oldest woman to make her Top 100 debut, behind only Arina Rodionova (at about a month and a half over 34 in 2024), in tour history.

Of course, if Kawa she can delay the feat until sometime early next year, she can top the Aussie.


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COMEBACKS: Katie Boulter/GBR and Daria Lopatetska/UKR
...sorry, Sonay. But Ms.Boulter will take that back now.

Just a week after Sonay Kartal's run to the Wuhan final led to her supplanting Boulter as the new GBR #1, Boulter immediately struck back in Osaka with a SF run (her third of '26) that will see her climb back into the Top 50 on Monday and reclaim the top national ranking.

Boulter posted wins over Himeno Sakatsume, Viktorija Golubic and Antonia Ruzic (from a set down) before a final four loss to Katerina Siniakova. Still, it was a significant upturn from the Brit's recent results, as she came into the week having lost four of her last five (not long after having a five-match losing streak this summer). She'd gone just 3-10 since her SF on the grass at Queen's Club in June (when she posted a QF upset over Elena Rybakina).

Boulter's season peak remains her Ostrava title run in early February, her first tour crown since her second win in Nottingham in 2024.

Meanwhile, at while ago, Lopatetska's appeared to be a name that the tennis world needed to learn, as she was already starring at the challenger level at just age 15, nearly reaching the Top 200 (#216 high) in 2019.



But then a knee injury sent her off course. It was Lopatetska, remember, whose surgery at the time was paid for by a benefactor (her identity: countrywoman Elina Svitolina), likely saving her career. The youngster returned the following year, but success was hard to come by, and while she continued to play into early 2024 she gradually drifted off the radar.

After an almost two and a half year absence, Lopatetska returned to the court in August. She's immediately found her form. In a series of $15K events, the Ukrainian qualified in her first two comeback (version 2.0) tournaments, reaching the QF in the first and the final in the second.

In her third event back this week in Karlovy Vary (CZE), the now 23-year old won the title, overcoming 16-year old Crusher Katerina Zajickova (a two-time girls' doubles slam champ in '26, playing in just her second pro event), recovering from a love 1st set defeat and saving five MP while winning a 12-10 2nd set TB en route to a three set triumph.

It's Lopatetska's first singles title in more than seven and a half years. She's 16-2 on the season.
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FRESH FACES: Diana Shnaider/RUS and Ashlyn Krueger/USA
...Shnaider's first full season under coach Sascha Bajin has produced, as the 22-year old has posted her best finish in a major (RG SF), a career-best slam campaign (10-4 overall, with two additional 3r), her biggest singles win (over #1 Sabalenka in Paris), and her first multiple QF+ 1000 results in a single season while climbing back into the Top 20 in June and sticking there until what will be the end of the season.

But there's still room for Shnaider to improve, as Ningbo showed. After an impressive week that saw the Hordette get wins over Yulia Putintesva, Alex Eala and Iva Jovic, she wasn't able to get over the SF hump, falling to Elena Rybakina to drop to 0-4 at that stage in '26.

Not that Shnaider would be *expected* to win that one, but still.

16-7 since Wimbledon, and with a trio of wins in both of her two most recent stops in Wuhan and Ningbo, Shnaider finds herself at #13 (after finishing at #21 in '25), having just posted a win over the player (Jovic) immediately above her in the rankings.

Currently scheduled for two more events in the Asian swing during which she could get a little bit closer, she'll enter '27 with the chance for a Top 10 push, especially if she can quickly sure up the one area where she's been most lacking in '26. Of the eleven WTA players this season to have reached four or more SF, Shnaider is the only one who hasn't reached at least one final this year.



Krueger's season has been one of a gradually increasing force. A former riser in seasons past, when she won her maiden tour title in 2023 and reached the Top 30 last summer, the 22-year old Bannerette had slipped badly in the closing months of last year, ending '25 by losing five of her last six matches. The downturn continued into '26, as she lost six of seven to start the year.

Krueger finally got on a roll during the clay/grass spring and summer stretch. After a SF on hard courts in Austin, she proceeded to go 19-3 as she qualified at RG, starred on the lawns with a Birmingham 125 SF and Ilkley title, then qualified at SW19 en route to her first major 4th Round finish. But a slow summer on hard courts immediately followed. She went 2-4, but at least ended things on a positive note with a surprise trip to the U.S. Open doubles final alongside Robin Montgomery.

She's carried that momentum into Asia, with a Wuhan qualifier-to-3rd Round result, and this week's trip to her third career WTA final (first since Dubai in February '25) in Osaka with wins over Janice Tjen, Lanlana Tararudee, Talia Gibson and top-seeded Ann Li.

Krueger fell in short order -- after a rain delay just three games into the match -- to Katerina Siniakova, dropping the final ten games (all after play resumed) in a 6-1/6-0 loss. Siniakova, of course, also had a hand (along w/ Taylor Townsend) in Krueger's loss in the U.S. Open final.

Still, she's put together an 8-4 Asian swing mark, and will return to the Top 50 on Monday.


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ITF WORLD TENNIS: Hannah Klugman/GBR
...in Wrexham, 17-year old Klugman, just off her maiden pro win in a $50K in September, took things to yet another level with a $100K title run, posting straight sets wins over the likes of Fiona Crawley, Anna Siskova, Rebecca Sramkova and Jodie Burrage on the week, then securing the title with a 2 & 4 victory over Elsa Jacquemot on Sunday.

The 2025 RG girls' finalist will jump nearly 100 spots in the tour rankings, cracking the Top 300 and coming in at a new career high of #248.



Of note, though she didn't win, Jacquemot's late-season results are putting a nice finishing touch on what had until recently been a nightmarish season. The Pastry started 2026 at 1-7, and endured another 1-9 slide during the spring, then a 1-6 stretch this summer. She finally turned things around last month with a SF run (as a qualifier) at the Barranquilla 125 after having not posted multiple match wins in any of her previous 25 events this season. She's now gone 11-7 in her last 18 matches.
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JUNIOR STARS: Charo Esquiva Banuls/ESP and Katerina Zajickova/CZE
...Esquiva Banuls didn't claim her third straight challenger title in the $15K in Villena (ESP), but the 18-year old -- a girls' QF at RG and the U.S. Open this year -- Spaniard extended her winning streak to 14 matches and reached her third straight final, losing to 19-year old compatriot Neus Torner Sensano 6-3/6-4.

From CEB's most recent run of success...



In Karlovy Vary (CZE), 16-year old Czech Zajickova brought her '26 success back home, but did so in singles on the pro level in a $15K, reaching the final in what was just her second career event outside of junior competition.

Zajickova, a J300 singles winner and girls' doubles major champion in Paris and London alongside Jana Kovackova this season, nearly claimed her first title, taking a love 1st set in the final vs. Daria Lopatetska and holding five MP in the 2nd set before losing a 26-point TB and then going on to fall in three sets, 0–6/7–6(12)/6–3.


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DOUBLES: Desirae Krawczyk/Fanny Stollar, USA/HUN
...partnering for the first time, Krawczyk & Stollar battled their way to the Ningbo title, winning three straight MTB to end the week with wins over Kozyreva/Lumsden (QF), Eikeri/Gleason (SF) and top-seeded Bucsa/Melichar-Martinez in the final. Bucsa/Melichar-Martinez had reached the final after back-to-back walkovers in the QF/SF, playing their third '26 final together. Melichar-Martinez had been the Ningbo defending champion after winning '25 with Liudmila Samsonova.

It's Krawczyk's 14th career WTA title (second this year) and Stollar's sixth (and biggest) win.


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1. Ningbo Final - Elena Rybakina def. Leylah Fernandez
...6-2/6-2. In a season in which Rybakina has collected two slam titles, while Fernandez posted just two slam MD wins, the two met for the latest edition of what has become an under-the-radar, very competitive rivalry.

Remember, Fernandez held a pair of MP in their last meeting in the Stuggart QF (Rybakina went on to win the title), defeated the Kazakh in the Washington SF in '25 (this time *she* won the title), and denied Rybakina a pair of MP in a win in the Cincinnati 2nd Round in '24.

In their sixth meeting, though, Rybakina posted her third straight win in the series (she leads 4-2), with the most lopsided final score yet between the two in a 2 & 2 victory that not only solidifed Rybakina's #1 ranking, but extended her tour match win lead to three (w/ 53, over Pegula and Svitolina's 50) and moved her into the season lead as the only player with four titles in '26.


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2. Ningbo 2nd Rd. - Ekaterina Alexandrova def. Marta Kostyuk
...6-4/4-0 ret. Kostyuk ends her long, long longshot WTAF qualifying chances (she needed back-to-back title runs), finally setting the eight-player field.

Well, unless, say, Elina Svitolina ultimately pulls out amidst her public/personal issues of the past week, then Race #9 Iga Swiatek waves off elevation to Indian Wells and holds to her announcement that her '26 season has ended, and #10 Kostyuk then slips in the back door. It's the WTA, so it's surely in the discussion.

Actually, that being the case (along w/ Kostyuk's injured wrist, and maybe something with someone else in the field), #11 Iva Jovic should *stay* ready, so she doesn't have to *get* ready. #12 Maja Chwalinska and #13 Diana Shnaider, too.


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3. Osaka 1st Rd. - Lilli Tagger def. Liudmila Samsonova
...6-3/6-3. The Flip is sputtering.

Unless Samsonova ends the season with a closing title run -- either in Hong Kong (she's on the entry list), or in one or more of the many 125 events held before the start of '27 -- she'll likely end the season under .500 for the first time in her career. She'll be just outside the Top 40 on Monday, so some additional late-season events *are* surely a possibility if she wants to try to position herself for a seed come January in Melbourne.

In recent weeks, the Hordette has missed out on multiple chances at big-time wins when she failed to put away three-set victories over higher-ranked opponents. Here, Tagger never let her get a foothold.

Even with her improved stretch after her 8-16 season start, Samsonova is 21-26 on the season (after an additional qualifying loss in Tokyo), largely because her 11-6 upturn (starting w/ Wimbledon, and her mid-season wedding) has now been followed by a recent 2-4 slide.


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4. Ningbo 1st Rd. - Leylah Fernandez def. Elise Mertens
...2-6/6-3/7-5. Fernandez prevails after trailing 5-3 in the 3rd, with Mertens serving for the match, sweeping the final four games and leveling her season record at 25-25.


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5. Osaka Final - Katerina Siniakova def. Ashlyn Krueger
...6-1/6-0. Of some note, this was a singles match-up of two players who faced off in the U.S. Open doubles final just last month. Like in New York, it proved to be to Siniakova's delight.

No matter which woman was to win, with both not having won a tour-level title since 2023, the final result would represent the second-longest title drought brought to an end in 2026, behind only Karolina Muchova's more than six year stretch without a WTA win that was ended when she won Doha back in February.

Play was suspended due to rain with Siniakova leading 2-1 in the 1st, and when the match resumed it'd be a whitewash by the Czech, who swept the final ten games en route to her sixth career title.


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6. Osaka 1st Rd. - Kayla Day def. Sofia Kenin
...6-3/6-2. With *two* losses in Osaka, after this 1st Round meeting between LL, Kenin falls to 8-26 on the season, a huge step back from a resurgent '25 campaign in which she posted 31 wins, reached one tour final (Charleston), a 1000 QF (Dubai), notched a pair of Top 10 wins and finished in the Top 30. On Monday, the AO20 champ falls 60+ spots to #187.
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7. Ningbo Q2 - Katarzyna Kawa def. Daria Snigur 6-1/2-0 ret.
Ningbo 1st Rd. - Katarzyna Kawa def. Daria Snigur 1-6/6-2/6-4
...Kawa thought she'd gotten rid of Snigur in qualifying (and vice versa), but the Ukrainian popped up again in the 1st Round and even claimed the 1st set in their rematch (after she'd retired in the Q2 meeting). But the Pole rebounded to win in three to level their career head-to-head at 2-2.

In true Whack-a-Mole fashion, all four meetings have come in 2026, with three of them in just over three weeks' time (they also played in the 1st Round in Beijing). Other than the Q2 retirement, all have gone three sets.
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8. Osaka QF - Ann Li def. Lilli Tagger
...6-4/3-6/7-6(0). Tagger has developed a pattern of playing clutch tennis in tight matches and laying down a strong finish en route to victory, but the Austrian was outdone by Li under just those circumstances.

Tagger *did* pull off the first part of the equation, forcing a 3rd set and then saving three Li MP, one at 5-4 and two more at 6-5. But in a break-free set, it was the Bannerette who finished with a flourish, shutting out the teenager in a 7-0 TB win.


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HM- Osaka Final - Storm Hunter/Janice Tjen def. Jesika Maleckova/Miriam Skoch
...6-4/6-1. Fresh off a loss in the Wuhan final alongside Katerina Siniakova, Hunter teams with Tjen to collect their first title as a team. It's title #11 for Hunter, her second this season (w/ Austin partnering Taylor Townsend, another in Siniakova's rotating wheel of WD teammates), while Tjen improves to 4-0 in WD finals in her WTA career. All of Tjen's win have come since last October, each in an event taking place in the Asia/Oceanic region (Guangzhou-Chennai-Hobart-Osaka).

The trip to Osaka proved to be quite the success for Hunter's Wuhan partner, Siniakova, as well.
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Not sure what she was even saying here, and I wasn't the only one...



A day later, we got more (ugh)...



And, then, days later, still *more*...



Didn't think to have all *that* on the To-Do List. I know it's an end-of-year, "MVP" joke thing, but the idea of a "Real Players of the WTA Tour," Bravo-style "Housewives" reality show could be an *actual* thing, you know?

Of course, with all the resulting blowback from this, now we await a potential announcement that Svitolina might skip the WTAF altogether, thereby gift-wrapping the final berth to *someone* (apparently not Swiatek, but maybe countrywoman Marta Kostyuk).

As somewhat noted before, all this is the drawback for the players who post all their personal lives on social media, are then *shocked* that the public has opinions about it all, and then have to issue multiple public statements regarding things that really aren't and shouldn't have been anyone else's business in the first place, neither now nor eight years ago and all the times in between. And yet it persists.

There are still all kinds of eyebrow-raising things involved in all this, but it's none of my business, and I won't pretend to really care. Soooo... onward. More than 'nuff said.



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With this not totally surprising news, it appears as if this also means that she won't head to Indian Wells as an alternate, or it someone withdraws and moves her up into the field. This likely assures Swiatek (currently #9, #8 on Monday, but probably to be passed by by Noskova after I.W.) of her lowest season-ending ranking since 2021 (when she was #9), and maybe since her #17 finish in 2020 (when she jumped up to that spot from #54 with her season-closing RG title in October).



(i.e. The Most Interesting Tour in the World, The Crazy Women's Tennis Tour, etc.)


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Meanwhile... Ash, already? Sheesh.

And I hope Kunieda gets in, as he deserves to be a first-ballot enshrinee... but coming just four years after his retirement, it'll bring up *loads* of renewed questions about why Esther Vergeer had to wait more than a decade before her always destined enshrinement in Newport became official.



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*CAREER WTAF WS APPEARANCES (w/ 2026 field)*
6 - Aryna Sabalenka
5 - Coco Gauff
5 - Jessie Pegula
4 - Elena Rybakina
4 - Elina Svitolina
1 - Mirra Andreeva
1 - Karolina Muchova
1 - Linda Noskova
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NOTE: field as of Oct.26

*CURRENT WTAF WS APPEARANCE STREAKS*
6 - Aryna Sabalenka
5 - Coco Gauff
5 - Jessie Pegula
4 - Elena Rybakina
Return - Svitolina
Debuts - Andreeva, Muchova, Noskova
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STREAKS ENDING IN 2026: Swiatek (5), Paolini (2)
NOTE: field as of Oct.26

*2026 WTAF FIELD - CAREER W/L*
12-9 - Aryna Sabalenka
10-3 - Elina Svitolina
7-4 - Elena Rybakina
7-8 - Coco Gauff
6-8 - Jessie Pegula
0-0 - Mirra Andreeva
0-0 - Karolina Muchova
0-0 - Linda Noskova
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NOTE: field as of Oct.26

*2026 WTA SINGLES TITLES*
4 - ELENA RYBAKINA = 2 GS/2 500
3 - Mirra Andreeva = 1 GS/2 500
3 - Aryna Sabalenka = 2 1000/1 500
2 - Marie Bouzkova = 2 250
2 - Marta Kostyuk = 1 1000/1 250
2 - Karolina Muchova = 1 1000/1 500
2 - Linda Noskova = 1 GS/1 500
2 - Jessie Pegula = 1 1000/1 500
2 - Elina Svitolina = 1 1000/1 250
[2020-26]
26 - 1/2/8/6/5/3/1 = Iga Swiatek
19 - 3/2/0/3/4/4/3 = Aryna Sabalenka
14 - 1/0/1/2/3/3/4 = ELENA RYBAKINA
11 - 0/1/0/4/3/2/1 = Coco Gauff
10 - 0/0/1/2/2/3/2 = Jessie Pegula
[2020-26; hard court]
16 - Aryna Sabalenka (3/1/0/2/4/3/3)
14 - Iga Swiatek (0/1/5/3/2/2/1)
9 - Coco Gauff (0/0/0/4/3/1/1)
9 - ELENA RYBAKINA (1/0/0/1/2/2/3)
6 - Ash Barty (1/3/2 ret)
6 - Leylah Fernandez (0/1/1/1/0/2/1)
6 - Barbora Krejcikova (0/1/2/2/0/0/1)
6 - Jessie Pegula (0/0/1/2/1/1/1)

*2026 MULT.DIFFERENT WTA CHAMPIONS BY COUNTRY*
7 - USA: Gauff,Jovic,Keys,Montgomery,Navarro,Pegula,Stearns
6 - CZE: Bejlek,Bouzkova,Krejcikova,Muchova,Noskova,Siniakova
2 - CRO: Marcinko,Vekic
2 - ESP: Bucsa,Quevedo
2 - POL: Chwalinska,Swiatek
2 - RUS: M.Andreeva,Liutova
2 - UKR: Kostyuk,Svitolina
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[1-AUS,AUT,BLR,CAN,CHN,EGY,FRA,GBR,GER,ITA,KAZ,PHI,ROU]

*MOST DIFFERENT CHAMPIONS in SEASON (since 2010)*
9 - Russia (2010)
8 - United States (2024)
8 - United States (2025)
7 - United States (2016)
7 - United States (2026)*
6 - United States (2019)
6 - United States (2023)
6 - Czech Republic (2026)*

*CAREER WTA SINGLES TITLES - ACTIVE*
73 - Serena Williams, USA (most recent: 2020)
49 - Venus Williams, USA (2016)
26 - Iga Swiatek, POL (2026)
24 - Aryna Sabalenka, BLR (2026)
20 - Elina Svitolina, UKR (2026)
17 - Karolina Pliskova, CZE (2024)
15 - ELENA RYBAKINA, KAZ (2026)
12 - Coco Gauff, USA (2026)
12 - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, RUS (2018)
12 - Vera Zvonareva, RUS (2011)
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ALSO: Azarenka (21)

*2026 REPEAT WS CHAMPIONS (successfully defended)*
Brisbane - Aryna Sabalenka
Miami - Aryna Sabalenka
Charleston - Jessie Pegula
Guadalajara - Iva Jovic
Ningbo - Elena Rybakina

*MOST WTA FINALS in 2026*
6 - ELENA RYBAKINA (4-2)
5 - Mirra Andreeva (3-2)
5 - Aryna Sabalenka (3-2)
5 - Jessie Pegula (2-3)
4 - Karolina Muchova (2-2)

*WTA TITLE LEADERS - CZE, active*
17 - Karolina Pliskova (2013-20)
9 - Barbora Krejcikova (2021-26)
6 - KATERINA SINIAKOVA (2017-26)
4 - Marie Bouzkova (2022-26)
3 - Karolina Muchova (2019-26)
3 - Marketa Vondrousova (2017-25)
3 - Linda Noskova (2024-26)
1 - Sara Bejlek (2026)
1 - Linda Fruhvirtova (2022)

*MOST WTA SF in 2026*
8 - Jessie Pegula (5-3)
7 - ELENA RYBAKINA (6-1)
7 - Coco Gauff (3-4)
7 - Elina Svitolina (3-4)
6 - Mirra Andreeva (5-1)
6 - Aryna Sabalenka (5-1)
6 - Karolina Muchova (4-2)
5 - Marta Kostyuk (3-2)
5 - Iva Jovic (2-3)
4 - Iga Swiatek (1-3)
4 - DIANA SHNAIDER (0-4)

*2026 WTA DOUBLES FINALS*
9 (7-2) = Katerina Siniakova
7 (6-1) = Gaby Dabrowski
7 (6-1) = Luisa Stefani
6 (6-0) = Taylor Townsend
6 (3-3) = Maia Lumsden
6 (4-2) = Zhang Shuai
6 (2-4) = NICOLE MELICHAR-MARTINEZ
5 (2-3) = CRISTINA BUCSA
[2026 finals - duos]
7...Dabrowski/Stefani (6-1)
5...Siniakova/Townsend (5-0)
4...Danilina/Krunic (1-3)
4...MALECKOVA/SKOCH (1-3)
3...Siniakova/Zhang (2-1)
3...BUCSA/MELICHAR-MARTINEZ (1-2)





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Sounds like something a tennis grand slam would do...




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All for now.

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