Sunday, November 02, 2025

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*WEEK 45 CHAMPIONS*
HONG KONG, CHINA (WTA 250; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Victoria Mboko/CAN def. Cristina Bucsa/ESP 7-5/6-7(9)/6-2
D: Jiang Xinyu/Wang Yafan (CHN/CHN) def. Momoko Kobori/Peangtarn Pluech (JPN/THA) 6-4/6-2
JIUJIANG, CHINA (WTA 250; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Anna Blinkova/RUS def. Lilli Tagger/AUT 6-3/6-3
D: Quinn Gleason/Elena Pridankina (USA/RUS) def. Ekaterina Ovcharenko/Emily Webley-Smith (RUS/GBR) 6-4/2-6 [10-6]
CHENNAI, INDIA (WTA 250; Hard Court Outdoor)
S: Janice Tjen/INA def. Kimberly Birrell/AUS 6-4/6-3
D: Aldila Sutjiadi/Janice Tjen (INA/INA) def. Storm Hunter/Monica Niculescu (AUS/ROU) 7-5/6-4
Cali, Colombia (WTA 125; Red Clay Outdoor)
S: Sinja Kraus/AUT def. Panna Udvardy/HUN 6-2/6-0
D: Ana Candiotto/Laura Pigossi (BRA/BRA) def. Ekaterine Gorgodze/Nicole Fossa Huergo (GEO/ITA) 6-3/6-1




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PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Victoria Mboko/CAN
...apparently, Mboko has now officially come to grips with all the changes that came to her life after bursting onto the scene with a huge title run in Montreal this summer. How can we tell? Well, she's winning titles again. It's just her thing.

The Canadian dominated play on the ITF level through the early months of '25, winning five titles and putting together a 22-match win streak. Come the summer, she showed that she could do the same in one of the biggest tournaments on the schedule in her home event. Now, after a brief step back (four straight losses after Montreal), she's gone 7-1 over the past two weeks while reaching the Tokyo QF and, this week, winning her *second* tour title in Hong Kong.

The win means that the 19-year old will finish the official '25 campaign as the CAN #1 (over Leylah Fernandez) and will make her Top 20 debut on Monday.

Mboko's week saw her take out the likes of Talia Gibson, Alex Eala (erasing a 4-1 3rd set deficit), Anna Kalinskaya (who offered up her fifth ret./walkover to an opponent this season), Fernandez (from a set down, to secure the top Canadian ranking) and Cristina Bucsa in what was a doozy of a final in which the teenager nearly wasted a 5-2 1st set lead, *did* squander a 3-0 lead (and MP) in the 2nd, only to then flash some additional closing brilliance to take out the first-time tour finalist in a 6-2 decider.


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RISER: Janice Tjen/INA
...seemingly the only thing stopping Tjen from continuing her barnstorming rampage across the tennis landscape in 2025 is the fact that it will soon be 2026.

In Chennai, Tjen added still more highlights to a breakthrough season that already had almost too many to count, including six early-season ITF titles, her tour-level & slam MD debut (and match win, all at the U.S. Open, the first win at a major by an Indonesian woman since 2004), maiden tour singles final (Sao Paulo), maiden doubles title (Guangzhou), maiden 125 title (Jinan) and Top 100 debut.

Over the past week, Tjen not only won her first tour singles title, defeating Kimberly Birrell 6-4/6-3 in what was the Indonesian's 12th '25 singles final (9 ITF, 2 WTA, 1 125), she also took home the doubles title with countrywoman Aldila Sutjiadi. Tjen is the third woman this season to sweep both the s/d titles at a tour event, and just the second (Iva Jovic) to win singles titles at the WTA, 125 and ITF level in '25.

Armed with a 77-15 singles mark at all levels in '25, Tjen is now the first Indonesian woman in 23 years (Angelique Widjaja) to win a WTA singles title, and she'll climb from #82 to #53 on Monday, surpassing Widjaja's career high ranking of #55. Only Yayuk Basuki (#19) has ever ranked higher amongst Indonesian women in tour history.

So, with that (and other things) still providing something to shoot for, maybe 2026 won't be an obstacle to Tjen's climb, and instead might just provide the setting for a sequel.


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SURPRISES: Himeno Sakatsume/JPN and Lanlana Tararudee/THA
...in Hong Kong, 24-year old Sakatsume (#228) reached her maiden WTA singles QF with wins over Sofia Kenin (2 & 1, for her first Top 100 victory) and Eudice Chong.

She lost to Maya Joint in three sets in the QF. Ranked at a career-best #164 back in 2023, Sakatsume will rise back inside the Top 190 on Monday.



In Chennai, 21-year old Tararudee reached her maiden WTA QF and SF, notching wins over Maria Timofeeva (ret.), top seed Zeynep Sonmez and Polina Iatcenko. She fell a round short of the final with a double-tie break loss to Janice Tjen.

She'll jump nearly 30 spots in the rankings and crack the Top 150 for the first time on Monday. Earlier this season, Tararudee reached both her biggest career ITF final (a $75K challenger in March) and a 125 title match this summer (in Porto, losing to Tereza Valentova).


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VETERANS: Cristina Bucsa/ESP and Kimberly Birrell/AUS
...27 years of age, which both of these two currently are, doesn't *necessary* put them in the "veteran" category, but when the other acceptable spots are all filled up with honorees, well, it's close enough for Week 45.

Both Bucsa and Birrell came up a win short of their maiden tour titles, but will surely accept unexpected results this week that allow them to finish off the tour's regular season on both their highest notes of 2025.



Bucsa has quietly been one of the WTA's steadily improving late(ish) bloomers in recent seasons, first in doubles (winning her maiden tour title at age 25, taking Olympic Bronze in Paris at age 26, and picking up seven titles over the last three seasons), while gradually progessing on the solo side. The Spaniard posted her maiden slam MD win at age 24 in '22, cracked the Top 100 at 25, reached her first 1000 Round of 16 at 26, and second week at a major at 27 (U.S. '25). This week in Hong Kong it was the first career WTA singles final accomplishment that was checked off the list.

Bucsa's win over Emiliana Arango put her into just her third tour-level QF, then a walkover from Tokyo champ Belinda Bencic gifted her her maiden semi. A 3 & 1 win over Maya Joint sent her into the final, where she gamely battled Victoria Mboko, forcing the rising teenager to extend herself before finally grabbing control in the 3rd set.

Bucsa jumps to #55 in the new rankings, just setting a new career high (which had been #56).

Meanwhile, in Chennai, Birrell reached her second career WTA SF and final (both the first since reaching the Osaka final a year ago), posting wins over Nikola Bartunkova, Donna Vekic and Joanna Garland (rallying from 5-0 down in the 3rd vs. the ailing Taiwanese player, saving five MP and winnng the final seven games of the match). The Aussie lost in straight sets in the final vs. Janice Tjen.

After climbing as high as a career-best #60 in May, Birrell was down to #117 coming into Week 45. She'll return to the Top 100 on Monday.


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COMEBACK: Anna Blinkova/RUS
...Blinkova came into Jiujiang with a season won/lost mark under .500, but she finally hit a hot streak on her way to her first tour final in two and a half years, claiming her second WTA title three years after her maiden win at the Transylvania Open in 2022.

Blinkova didn't drop a set all week, posting victories over Chloe Paquet, Anna Bondar and Alycia Parks, with the latter win ending her streak of five straight QF losses in tour events (0-3 in '25). After getting past first-time semifinalist Dominika Salkova, Blinkova was finally the player to cool down streaking Austrian teenager Lilli Tagger (the 17-year old had reached the title match in her WTA MD debut) in a 3 & 3 final.

Blinkova leaps from #95 all the way up to #62 on Monday.


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FRESH FACES: Maya Joint/AUS and Joanan Garland/TPE
...Joint's breakout season has gotten a bit lost in the forest of a series of great campaigns from teenagers, from Mirra Andreeva to Victoria Mboko, Alex Eala, Iva Jovic and Tereza Valentova.

But the 19-year old Aussie is pushing to be seeded at the next major (rising from #118 in the first week of January to #30 on Monday), won a pair of tour titles (on clay and grass, def. Eala in the final of the latter), and played in the MD of all four majors (winning a 1st Round match in New York for the second straight year).

Joint posted her fifth SF+ result of the season this week in Hong Kong, getting wins over Anastasija Sevastova and Himeno Sakatsume before falling to Cristina Bucsa. Her 30+ wins in tour-level events are the most by an Aussie teen since Jelena Dokic a quarter century ago.



Garland shined early in the '25 season, polishing off three ITF $35K titles over the first three months of the season (after having won six in the final three months of '24). At Roland Garros, she qualified to make her slam MD debut and got a 1st Round win over Katie Volynets.

The 24-year old from Taiwan reached her maiden tour-level QF and SF in Chennai, knocking off Arianne Hartono, Mei Yamaguchi (rallying from 5-3 down in the 3rd) and Arina Rodionova.



Unfortunately, Garland's career week didn't end well, as she led Kimberly Birrell 5-0 in the 3rd set of their QF match, holding five MP at 5-3, only to physically collapse down the stretch. After taking a medical timeout, she managed to reach the finish, but was shutout after that as the Aussie advanced by sweeping the final seven games.

Garland will still reach a new career high of #121 on Monday.
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ITF PLAYER: Marina Stakusic/CAN
...the last few seasons have included career milestones for Stakusic, from her BJK Cup heroics and three ITF wins (two $60K) in 2023 to her slam MD debut at the U.S. Open, maiden WTA QF in Guadalajara and 125 crown (Tampico) last year. For much of this season, though, the Canadian was struggling. Between February and September she suffered through a 5-14 skid.

Things have turned around significantly since then, as the 20-year old has followed up that poor stretch with a run that has seen her repeat her Guadalajara QF (w/ an upset of Alona Ostapenko), as well as reach a 125 QF and $100K final heading into this past week. On a roll, Stakusic took her momentum all the way to a $100K title, not dropping a set in Irapuato (MEX) and claiming the title in a 6-2/6-2 final over Elvina Kalieva. In the semis, she avenged her QF loss to Hanne Vandewinkel a week earlier in her Tampico 125 title defense.

Since her 5-14 slump, Stakusic has gone 15-3.

Stakusic is set to once again join the Canadian team in BJK Cup action later this month in the Playoff round.


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JUNIOR STARS: Lilli Tagger/AUT and Mia Pohankova/SVK
...two of this year's junior slam champs spent the eleventh hour of the WTA regular season getting in career tour-level milestones just under the wire.

The reputation and name recognition of 17-year old Tagger, the reigning Roland Garros girls' champ, has continued to grow over the back half of the season. After at first being known for her one-handed backhand and as being the protege of Francesca Schiavone, the Austrian's on-court success has since taken over the headlines. In September, she won a pair of $75K challengers (giving her three ITF wins on the year) to go along with her RG junior triumph, and this week the teenager played her way into her maiden WTA final in Jiujiang in what was her tour MD debut.

Ranked #235 and in the MD via a wild card, Tagger ran off wins over Zhu Lin (2 & 1), Elisabetta Cocciaretto (her first over a Top 100 opponent) and Tamara Korpastch (assuring her of cracking the Top 200), all in straight sets. Against Viktorija Golubic in the SF, she rallied from 5-2 down in the 3rd, where the Swiss veteran served for the match at 5-3 and then held triple MP at love/40 on Tagger's serve at 5-4.

In a (girl) boss move if there ever was one, from that moment forward Tagger claimed the final thirteen points of the match, holding serve with five consecutive points and sweeping the final two games at love to reach her maiden final.

The week didn't conclude with a true fairytale ending with Tagger becoming the ninth player to win the title in her debut event, as she fell in straights to Anna Blinkova. Still, she's 34-9 in pro events this season (21-4 since the start of August), to go along with her 29-5 mark in junior play in '25, and she'll climb to #154 on Monday.

How long until 2026?



In Chennai, Wimbledon girls' champ Pohankova reached her maiden tour-level QF in her first WTA MD appearance (she lost in the Q1 in Berlin in her only other tour event).

The 17-year old wild card, who this summer at SW19 became the second straight Slovak to win the girls' singles crown (after Renata Jamrichova in '24), posted wins over Nao Hibino and Diane Parry before falling to Janice Tjen. Pohankova will jump from #659 all the way into the Top 470.


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DOUBLES: Aldila Sutjiadi/Janice Tjen, INA/INA
...Tjen's singles title run was added to with another in doubles alongside countrywoman Sutjiadi, a little over a month after the two combined to win a 125 crown in Suzhou.

The pair's Chennai run saw the #2 seeds claim MTB wins in the 1st Round and semifinals (wrapping up a berth in the finals at 1 a.m. on Saturday night/Sunday morning), then returning the following afternoon to defeat top seeds Storm Hunter/Monica Niculescu 7-5/6-4 in the final. It's Tjen's second tour-level WD win (w/ Guangzhou last month), and Sutjiadi's sixth.

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1. Jiujiang SF - Lilli Tagger def. Viktorija Golubic
...6-1/4-6/7-5. Tagger joins the short list of players to reach the final in their WTA MD debut, and does it in clutch comeback fashion vs. the veteran Swiss.

Golubic led 5-2 in the 3rd, served at 5-3 and held triple MP at 5-4 on return. From that moment on, 17-year old Tagger swept the remaining thirteen points in the match, rallying from love/40 down to hold and then winning back-to-back love games to close out the victory.


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2. Chennai SF - Kimberly Birrell def. Joanna Garland
...6-7(2)/6-3/7-5. Garland hits the physical wall at precisely the wrong time, soon after having taken a 5-0 lead over Birrell in the decider. She twice served for the match, and at 5-3 went up 40/15 and ultimately held five MP.

With her opponent struggling and taking a medical timeout, the Aussie didn't let up and completed the comeback to reach the final.


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3. Hong Kong Final - Victoria Mboko def. Cristina Bucsa
...7-5/6-7(9)/6-2. Mboko's trip around her final obstacle before winning her second tour title took the scenic route, as in nearly squandering a 5-2 1st set lead and three SP as she lost three straight games to Bucsa before finally breaking the Spaniard to win on SP #4.

In the 2nd, the Canadian *did* lose her 3-0 edge, but then saw Bucsa fail to serve out the set at 6-5. Bucsa held two SP in the TB before another Mboko surge saw her reach MP at 8-7. Bucsa finally forced the decider by taking the breaker 11-9 on her fourth SP.

Mboko seized control in the 3rd, taking the crown by converting her third MP of the eighth and final game of the set.


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4. Cali 125 SF - Sinja Kraus def. Jazmin Ortenzi
...5-7/6-3/7-6(6). Kraus' 125 title run included this crazy affair that took place over Friday and Saturday.

The Austrian lost the 1st set after having led 5-2 and held three SP, then nearly squandered 4-1 and 5-3 leads in the 3rd, as well. She had a MP at 5-4, but saw Ortenzi turn things around and hold a MP of her own at 6-5. Things went to a TB, where Kraus raced to a 6-1 lead.

Yep, it happened again. As 6-1 was soon 6-6, but Kraus *finally* put away the win on MP #7 (sixth in the TB alone) by an 8-6 score.
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5. Hong Kong SF - Victoria Mboko def. Leyleh Fernandez
...2-6/6-3/6-2. In recent weeks, Mboko and Fernandez have traded off the CAN #1 ranking in the closing stages of the regular season. Fernandez took it from the teenager after winning the Osaka title, only to see Mboko reclaim it a week later with a QF run in Tokyo (both lost to Elena Rybakina, but Fernandez's exit came one round earlier).

Facing off in the semis with the CAN #1 honor even more actively in the mix, Mboko overcame a sizzling start from Fernandez to surge back to drop just five games in the 2nd/3rd sets, sealing her season-ending (the final '25 rankings are released after the WTAF, though many 125 challengers remain to be played before the start of the 2026 schedule) spot atop Canada's rankings and assure herself a Top 20 finish in her breakthrough campaign.

Fernandez had been 9-1 in her previous ten matches.


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6. Jiujiang 1st Rd. - Elena Pridankina def. Yuan Yue 6-2/3-6/7-6(5)
Jiujiang 2nd Rd. - Viktorija Golubic def. Elena Pridankina 6-0/4-6/7-5
...what goes around comes around.

After making the draw as a lucky loser, Pridankina saved a pair of MP at 6-5 in the 3rd to get the win over Yuan, only to then be unable to claim a 2nd Round victory after leading Golubic 5-3 in the decider.

Pridankina went on to reach her first tour-level doubles final, and win the crown alongside Quinn Gleason.


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7. Jiujiang 1st Rd. - Zheng Wushuang def. Yuliia Starodubtseva
...6-3/7-6(5). Nine years ago in 2016, Zheng made her WTA MD debut in this same tournament. After going 0-4 in her first four career MD matches (after playing just one total match from 2020-22), the 26-year old finally records her maiden tour-level 1st Round victory in a straight sets match vs. Starodubtseva.


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8. Chennai 2nd Rd. - Joanna Garland def. Mei Yamaguchi
...5-7/7-5/7-5. Garland's career week at tour level included an early escape, as Yamaguchi led 5-3 in the 3rd and served for the win at 5-4.
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9. Jiujiang QF - Dominika Salkova def. Bai Zhuoxuan
...6-3/6-4. Another week, another maiden WTA semifinalist Crusher. 21-year old Salkova is the third Czech to post her first career tour-level semi in '25 (w/ Valentova and Bartunkova).

Salkova was one of five first-time tour singles semifinalists in Week 45, with each of the three tour-level events having at least one.
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10. $15K Sharm El Sheikh EGY Final - Sun Xinran def. Anna Pushkareva
...6-1/2-6/6-2. A week after becoming the youngest Chinese player to win a women's pro singles crown, 15-year old Sun makes it two in a row, outlasting 16-year old Pushkareva, who was making her pro event debut.


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HM- $15K Tashkent UZB Final - Daria Khomutsianskaya def. Daria Egorova
...3-6/6-2/6-2. Belarus' Khomutsianskaya grabs her third straight challenger title and fifth this season, all since the start of September. The 21-year old has won 15 straight matches, and is 29-1 in her last 30.

The five titles ties for second on the ITF circuit in '25, matching the early-season haul of Victoria Mboko and behind only Janice Tjen's six wins. Both Mboko and Tjen, of course, won tour-level titles this weekend.

Khomutsianskaya's twelve combined ITF titles (w/ 7 WD) lead the circuit this season.
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1. Chennai 2nd Rd. - Arina Rodionova def. Storm Hunter
...1-6/6-4/7-6(9). The Aussies faced off in a deciding TB in which both held MP, a total of six in all.

After Hunter failed to serve things out at 5-4 before the breaker, she had to save a pair of MP at 6-4 in the TB and after winning three straight points held a MP of her own at 7-6. Again, she couldn't put away the win, opening the door for Rodionova to finally get the victory on MP #5 on the twentieth point.



Rodionova lost in the QF to Joanna Garland, coming up short of joining Aliaksandra Sasnovich (in Cluj-Napoca) as the only lucky losers to reach a tour-level SF this season. The Aussie joins three others who fell at the QF post (the last two of which came during grass court season).

It was still just the third career WTA QF for the 35-year old. Two have come over the past two seasons, but that shouldn't come as a great surprise, as it was in '24 that Rodionova became the oldest player to ever make her Top 100 debut in singles.
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2. Cali 125 Final - Sinja Kraus def. Panna Udvardy
...6-2/6-0. 23-year old Austrian Kraus claimed her biggest career title in the week's lone 125 event, topping the trio of $75K challengers that she won earlier this season (of her four ITF title runs in '25). She'll climb to a new career high of #105.

In two of her previous ITF finals this season, Kraus notched wins over teenagers Sarah Rakotomanga and Lilli Tagger, both of whom later reached tour-level finals (with the former winning her maiden WTA title).


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3. $35K Makinohara JPN Final - Sara Saito def. Back Da-yeon
...6-1/6-2. The 19-year old from Japan sweeps the s/d titles in Makinohara, picking up her second singles challenger win this season (fourth career) and finally climbing over .500 for the year with a five-win week.

Saito reached the finals of three junior doubles slams in 2023.


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*WEEK 45 CAREER FIRSTS - SINGLES SF+, DOUBLES F+*
First WTA WS W - Janice Tjen (Chennai)
First WTA WS F - Lilli Tagger (Jiujiang)
First WTA WS F - Cristina Bucsa (Hong Kong)
First WTA WS SF - Lanlana Tararudee (Chennai)
First WTA WS SF - Joanna Garland (Chennai)
First WTA WS SF - Dominika Salkova (Jiujiang)
First WTA WS SF - Lilli Tagger (Jiujiang) - 1st MD
First WTA WS SF - Cristina Bucsa (Hong Kong)
First WTA WD W - Elena Pridankina (Jiujiang)
First WTA WD F - Elena Pridankina (Jiujiang)
First WTA WD F - Momoko Kobori (Hong Kong)
First WTA WD F - Emily Webley-Smith (Jiujiang)
First WTA WD F - Ekaterina Ovcharenko (Jiujiang)

*2025 FIRST-TIME WTA CHAMPIONS*
Rabat - Maya Joint, AUS (19/#78)
Hamburg - Lois Boisson, FRA (22/#63)
Montreal - Victoria Mboko, CAN (18/#85)
Sao Paulo - Tiatsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah, FRA (19/#214)
Guadalajara - Iva Jovic, USA (17/#73)
Chennai - Janice Tjen, INA (23/#82)

*2025 FIRST-TIME WTA FINALISTS*
Polina Kudermetova, RUS (#107/21 = Brisbane)
Emiliana Arango, COL (#133/24 = Merida)
Maya Joint, AUS (#78/19 = Rabat)-W
Wang Xinyu, CHN (#49/23 = Berlin)
Alex Eala, PHI (#74/20 = Eastbourne)
Lois Boisson, FRA (#63/22 = Hamburg)-W
Anna Bondar, HUN (#77/28 = Hamburg)
Victoria Mboko, CAN (#85/18 = Montreal)-W
Tiatsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah, FRA (#73/19 = Sao Paulo)-W
Janice Tjen, INA (#130/23 = Sao Paulo)
Iva Jovic, USA (#73/17 = Guadalajara)-W
Tereza Valentova, CZE (#78/18 = Osaka)
Lilli Tagger, AUT (#235/17 = Jiujiang)
Cristina Bucsa, ESP (#68/27 = Hong Kong)

*2025 YOUNGEST WTA FINALISTS*
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Dubai - W)
17 - Mirra Andreeva, RUS (Indian Wells - W)
17 - Iva Jovic, USA (Guadalajara - W)
17 - LILLI TAGGER, AUT (Jiujiang)
18 - Tereza Valentova, CZE (Osaka)
18 - Victoria Mboko, CAN (Montreal - W)
19 - VICTORIA MBOKO, CAN (Hong Kong - W)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Rabat - W)
19 - Maya Joint, AUS (Eastbourne - W)
19 - Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah, FRA (Sao Paulo - W)

*2025 LOW-RANKED WTA FINALISTS*
#235 LILLI TAGGER, AUT (Jiujiang)
#223 Katarzyna Kawa, POL (Bogota)
#214 Tiantsoa Sarah Rakotomanga Rajaonah, FRA (Sao Paulo - W)
#164 Marketa Vondrousova, CZE (Berlin - W)
#157 Belinda Bencic, SUI (Abu Dhabi - W)
#133 Emiliana Arango, COL (Merida)
#130 Janice Tjen, INA (Sao Paulo)

*RECENT WTA MD DEBUT ACCOMPLISHMENTS*
2016: Rebeka Masarova to Gstaad SF (age 16)
2017: Jana Fett to Hobart SF (age 20)
2018: Olga Danilovic wins Moscow River Cup (age 17)
2019: Martina Di Giuseppe to Bucharest SF (age 28)
2019: Katarzyna Kawa to Jurmala Final (age 26)
2023: Julia Riera to Rabat SF (age 20)
2023: Maria Timofeeva wins Budapest (age 19)
2023: Noma Noha Akugue to Hamburg F (age 19)
2024: Laura Samson to Prague SF (age 16)
2024: Aoi Ito to Osaka SF (age 20)
2025: Julieta Pareja to Bogota SF (age 16)
2025: Lilli Tagger to Jiujiang F (1st WTA MD, age 17)

*2025 WTA SINGLES/DOUBLES FINAL IN EVENT*
Austin: McCartney Kessler, USA (L/L)
Rome: Jasmine Paolini, ITA (W/W)
Rabat: Maya Joint, AUS (W/W)
Eastbourne: Maya Joint, AUS (W/L)
Hamburg: Anna Bondar, HUN (L/L)
Chennai: Janice Tjen, INA (W/W)

*SINGLES/DOUBLES TITLE SWEEP IN 2020s*
2020 Ostrava!!!: Aryna Sabalenka
2021 Stuttgart: Ash Barty
2021 Parma: Coco Gauff
2021 Roland Garros: Barbora Krejcikova
2022 Adelaide 1: Ash Barty
2022 Nottingham: Beatriz Haddad Maia
2023 Prague: Nao Hibino
2023 San Diego: Barbora Krejcikova
2023 Elite Trophy: Beatriz Haddad Maia
2024 -
2025 Rome: Jasmine Paolini
2025 Rabat: Maya Joint
2025 Chennai: Janice Tjen

*WINNERS OF WTA, WTA 125 and ITF TITLES IN SEASON - 2020s*
2021 Clara Tauson, DEN
2021 Alison Van Uytvanck, BEL
2023 Tatjana Maria, GER
2023 Arantxa Rus, NED
2024 McCartney Kessler, USA
2024 Suzan Lamens, NED
2025 Iva Jovic, USA
2025 Janice Tjen, INA

*CURRENT WTAF WS APPEARANCE (rr) STREAKS*
5 - Aryna Sabalenka
5 - Iga Swiatek
4 - Coco Gauff
4 - Jessie Pegula
3 - Elena Rybakina
2 - Jasmine Paolini
1 - Amanda Anisimova
1 - Madison Keys
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2025 Alternate: M.Andreeva

*WTA SEASON-ENDING #1's - w/ finish the following season*
1975 Chris Evert, USA (1)
1976 Chris Evert, USA (1)
1977 Chris Evert, USA (2)
1978 Martina Navratilova, TCH (1)
1979 Martina Navratilova, TCH (3)
1980 Chris Evert-Lloyd, USA (1)
1981 Chris Evert-Lloyd, USA (2)
1982 Martina Navratilova, USA (1)
1983 Martina Navratilova, USA (1)
1984 Martina Navratilova, USA (1)
1985 Martina Navratilova, USA (1)
1986 Martina Navratilova, USA (2)
1987 Steffi Graf, FRG (1)
1988 Steffi Graf, FRG (1)
1989 Steffi Graf, FRG (1)
1990 Steffi Graf, GER (2)
1991 Monica Seles, YUG (1)
1992 Monica Seles, YUG (8)
1993 Steffi Graf, GER (1)
1994 Steffi Graf, GER (1)
1995 (co) Steffi Graf, GER (1) and Monica Seles, USA (2)
1996 Steffi Graf, GER (28 = injury)
1997 Martina Hingis, SUI (2)
1998 Lindsay Davenport, USA (2)
1999 Martina Hingis, SUI (1)
2000 Martina Hingis, SUI (4)
2001 Lindsay Davenport, USA (12 = injury)
2002 Serena Williams, USA (3)
2003 Justine Henin-Hardenne, BEL (8)
2004 Lindsay Davenport, USA (1)
2005 Lindsay Davenport, USA (25 = injury)
2006 Justine Henin-Hardenne, BEL (1)
2007 Justine Henin, BEL (retired)
2008 Jelena Jankovic, SRB (8)
2009 Serena Williams, USA (4)
2010 Caroline Wozniacki, DEN (1)
2011 Caroline Wozniacki, DEN (10)
2012 Victoria Azarenka, BLR (2)
2013 Serena Williams, USA (1)
2014 Serena Williams, USA (1)
2015 Serena Williams, USA (2)
2016 Angelique Kerber, GER (21)
2017 Simona Halep, ROU (1)
2018 Simona Halep, ROU (4)
2019 Ash Barty, AUS (1)
2020 Ash Barty, AUS (1)
2021 Ash Barty, AUS (retired)
2022 Iga Swiatek, POL (1)
2023 Iga Swiatek, POL (2)
2024 Aryna Sabalenka, BLR (1)
2025 Aryna Sabalenka, BLR






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Rybakina (already 1-0 in Riyadh), after going the distance to reach the WTAF in the eleventh hour, if she ends up winning the title...




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All for now.

posted by Todd.Spiker @ 9:06 PM 

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