After back-to-back titles in Miami and Charleston, Danielle Collins has officially brought her winning streak across the pond, battling back from a set and a break down to beat Serbian qualifier Olga Danilovic in her opening match in Madrid on Friday, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (8). Collins has now won her last 14 matches in a row, and the streak spans three different surfaces too—she won seven matches on hard courts in Miami, six matches on green clay in Charleston and one match so far on red clay in...
Rafael Nadal enjoyed a triumphant return at the Mutua Madrid Open, overcoming Darwin Blanch, 6-1, 6-0 for his second match win since January. The 22-time Grand Slam champion has heavily implied that 2024 will be his final season on tour, but a muscle tear picked up at the Brisbane International took him out of the Australian Open and BNP Paribas Open, sidelining him until last week when he competed at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell. Shaking off a second-round loss to Alex de Minaur in...
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...
Alex Eala (PHI) defeats Lesia Tsurenko (UKR) in the 2024 Madrid First Round
Anna Karolína Schmiedlová (SVK) defeats Sofia Kenin (USA) in the 2024
Elena Rybakina needed just over an hour on Sunday to roll to her title title of 2024 at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. After snapping world No.1 Iga Swiatek's 10-match winning streak in a nearly three-hour semifinal on Saturday, the fourth-ranked Kazakh was dominant in a 6-2, 6-2 win over unseeded Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk in the championship match to add to a season's title haul that also includes victories in Brisbane and Abu Dhabi thus far. Rybakina broke Kostyuk in the first...
Elena Rybakina has continued her incredible start to the 2024 season, reaching her fifth final of the year with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Iga Swiatek in the semifinals of Stuttgart on Saturday. And she achieved a lot with her latest win over the world No. 1: It was her tour-leading 25th win of the year. Going into their semifinal clash, Rybakina and Swiatek were tied for most wins on the women's tour so far this year with 24 each. She’s now into her tour-leading fifth final of the year....
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...
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...
Stefanos Tsitsipas fell to the ground Friday at the Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell as if he were celebrating another title. That wasn’t the scene, but the No. 5 seed couldn’t contain his relief after surviving a pair of match points in a quarterfinal encounter that nearly slipped through his fingertips. Tsitsipas fought off Facundo Diaz Acosta, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (8), to secure a ninth consecutive win on the back of his third Monte Carlo triumph. “It seemed like a mountain. I reminded myself that I...
Marta Kostyuk (UKR) defeats Qinwen Zheng (CHN) in the 2024 Stuttgart Second
On Friday, Cristian Garin picked up his fourth career Top 10 victory. Two of those have now come against Alexander Zverev in Munich. Five years after ousting the German over three sets in the BMW Open quarterfinals, Garin repeated history—this time more decisively in his 6-4, 6-4 victory at the 250-level event. Playing in cold, windy and damp conditions, the Chilean saved both break points he faced in the opening set—one at 2-1 after breaking Zverev and one when serving for it at 5-4. In a...