Several big names were in action as the second round began in Flushing Meadows....
Tennis
Simona Halep
1991 Constanța
Simona Halep is a Romanian professional tennis player. She is the current world No. 1 on the WTA Tour, a ranking she first achieved in October 2017. She is the reigning French Open champion and is the WTA year-end world No.1 for both 2017 and 2018.
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The ladies’ singles competitions at the 2017-19 editions of the Championships, Wimbledon, witnessed the crowning of three new first-time winners at the All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club...
It was generally a successful day for the seeds on third day of main draw play at the Miami Open, but not without drama. Defending champion Ashleigh Barty was given a run for her money but t...
A whirlwind first week at Melbourne Park has seen plenty of drama. Court speeds, final set deciders, the removal of having fans due to lockdown and much more ha...
Down 5-2 in the third set, the Romanian won the final five games of the match to escape a major upset at the hands of the Aussie....
The opening major of the year already has some key storylines developing, and it stars none other than Australia's own Ashleigh Barty. ...
Can Sofia Kenin defend her title or will a new champion emerge as the year's first major gets underway?...
Welcome to the 30th edition of WTA Weekly Ledger, recapping the action from the 2020 season post-COVID-19 tour suspension, analysis of the newly-...
The Pole is into the Quarter-Finals of Roland Garros after beating the number one seed in a blowout....
In a much-anticipated clash from the moment the draw was announced, top seed Simona Halep and American teenager Amanda Anisimova went head-to-head for the second French Open in a row, a rema...
Three of the top five seeds moved on while a few seeded players were knocked out as the Round of 64 got underway....
In the battle of the Romanians on Court Suzanne-Lenglen, it was top seed Simona Halep who emerged victorious, defeating Irina-Camelia Begu 6-3, 6-4....
The 2018 Roland Garros champion found her footing midway through the first set and never looked back against the tricky Spaniard....
Dominic Thiem’s run in the recent US Open fortnight, which culminated in his maiden Grand Slam title, was a historical one, not just for the Aust...
Play continues in the Italian capital with the top three seeds all advancing while one big upset was recorded....
With the the French Open two weeks away, tennis action on clay this year enters its busiest phase as it heads to Rome next week for the Internazionali BNL d’Ita...
With the Women's Singles draw beginning at Flushing Meadows tomorrow, several VAVEL writers decided to share their predictions for the next two weeks of play. ...
The top nine spots on Forbes’ list all go to players on the WTA Tour, with Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams leading the way in the top two spots....
Halep is the sixth top ten player on the WTA Tour to withdraw from the US Open and the preceding Western and Southern Open in New York, instead choosing to focus on the rescheduled clay cour...
The world number two picked up her fourth win in five meetings against Belgium’s Elise Mertens to claim her second title of the season in Prague. Interestingly, the Romanian said following t...
The tournament in Prague will end with an intriguing final tomorrow afternoon, with two of the tournament’s top three seeds facing off for the tournament....
The top seed cruised through a lucky loser while the third seed fought past a game Bouchard as well as unseeded Pliskova moving on after just seven games....
The two-time major champion will restart her season at the Czech clay-court event as she faces a big decision about the upcoming U.S. Open....
The mini-clay court swing continues with the 2020 Prague Open as Simona Halep headlines an intriguing field. ...
The two-time Grand Slam champion and former US Open finalist lead the field that features 27 of the top 28 players in the world....