Tag: Keys
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Matches of the Year
As a tennis fan, I obviously watch my favourite players most closely, but as many of my faves were injured or absent this year, I watched a lot of the WTA tour as a fan and with a slightly more open mind than usual. So many great matches – as always – so here are a few
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Hot and Unbothered!
Iga Swiatek winning a grand slam title should not be a big surprise, but that it came at Wimbledon in 2025 where she was the number 8 seed and hadn’t won a title in over a year, on a surface she notoriously has had little success at? Yes, a surprise but in retrospect, really not
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Down in the Dirt..
Roland Garros 2025 had been going so well for world number 1 Aryna Sabalenka. She had come through a tricky draw with good wins over Amanda Anisimova who had a winning head-to-head against her. She had beaten Qinwen Zheng, the Olympic gold medallist here in Paris a year ago and the last player to beat
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The Key to Madison’s Success..
There are many different routes to winning your first Grand Slam. Some have been surprise runs like Emma Raducanu’s fairytale victory, winning a slam as a qualifier at the US Open in 2021. Jelena Ostapenko’s Roland Garros 2017 title is another out of nowhere win. Sloane Stephens, Bianca Andreescu and Barbora Krejcikova had a good
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