Fourth seed Elena Rybakina ended world number one Iga Swiatek's recent
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Emma Raducanu's winning run came to an end in a 7-6 (2), 6-3 loss to top-ranked Iga Swiatek in the quarterfinals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix on Friday. Raducanu, ranked 303rd, had produced some of her best form since winning the 2021 U.S. Open as she won two Billie Jean King Cup matches last week and followed up with two wins to reach the Stuttgart quarterfinals. That form wasn't quite enough to beat the top-ranked Swiatek, who is on course to win the Stuttgart...
Raducanu lost in straight sets to Iga Swiatek in the Stuttgart Open last eight. The close-fought defeat comes after a decent run of form for the 21-year-old. World No 1 Swiatek had to work hard to earn her win against Raducanu
World number one Iga Swiatek beat Wang Xiyu 6-1, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Madrid Open on Thursday as she bids to win the competition for the first time. Earlier Coco Gauff sailed through to the third round with a 6-0, 6-0 thumping of Arantxa Rus, while
Coco Gauff came alive in her first outdoor red-clay event of the 2024 season, putting down an emphatic 6-0, 6-0 victory over Arantxa Rus to score her first double-bagel of her career at the Mutua Madrid Open. "I know everyone's here to see Rafa so I was just trying to get off the court for you guys!" Gauff joked after the match. The reigning US Open champion looked shaky on the indoor clay at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, but sent an incredible opening salvo to the field with her play at the...
Coco Gauff battled her way to the quarterfinals of the Porsche Grand Prix on Wednesday with a hard-fought 6-3, 4-6, 7-5 win over compatriot Sachia Vickery. The 134th-ranked Vickery created 19 break points but could only convert seven of them against the world No. 3. Gauff had 15 double faults in the match, but rallied from 4-2 down in the final set before winning in 2 hours, 26 minutes with her first match point.
Just over a month after her first win over a Top 5 player, Marta Kostyuk earned her second on Friday at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix with a 3-6, 6-4, 7-6(6) upset of No. 3 seed Coco Gauff in the quarterfinals. The two-hour, 44-minute victory is the latest milestone in a 2024 season that has just kept getting better for the Ukrainian. In January, the 21-year-old advanced to her first Grand Slam quarterfinal at the Australian Open. In February, Kostyuk celebrated her first Top 5 victory when she...
Day 5 at the WTA 500 event in Stuttgart will see all four quarterfinal
Iga Swiatek made a winning start to her 2024 clay-court season at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix, defeating Elise Mertens, 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals in her title defense. The world No. 1 made an impeccable turnaround from playing on hard courts for Billie Jean King Cup to slide through an at-times tense encounter to knock out her unseeded opposition in about an hour and half on Stuttgart’s Center Court. Indeed, Swiatek has been the most consistent player on tour in 2024; despite an...
Emma Raducanu took Iga Swiatek by surprise in their Stuttgart Open
Britain's Emma Raducanu falls to world number one and defending champion
Coco Gauff, who was named to TIME magazine's 2024 Women of the Year list, is hoping for peace in Gaza and that Israeli hostages taken by Hamas are released, but the young tennis star fears the worst as the conflict continues. Speaking to the magazine in an article published Wednesday, the 2023 U.S. Open champion addressed the ongoing war which began on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants attacked Israel’s southern border, killing more than 1,200 people, with some 250 others taken hostage. "I don’t...