The 2024 Guangzhou Open will be played next week, and the prize money pot for the event has been unveiled. This year’s Guangzhou Open, running from October 21st to 27th, marks 20 years since the first iteration of the tournament in 2004. Home favorite and two-time Grand Slam champion Li Na won the title that…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday October 16, 2024 Seven last-second withdrawals have led to a wide open draw at Ningbo, China this week. Anastasia Potapova (GI Illness), Ekaterina Alexandrova (right shoulder injury), Emma Navarro (illness), Jasmine Paolini (Left foot injury), Luidmila Samsonova (undisclosed), Yafan Wang [WC] (lower back injury) and Zheng Qinwen have…
British No 2 Harriet Dart fell to Clara Tauson for the second time in 3 weeks in Osaka, while lucky losers take over in China… The player I admire is Hsieh Su-Wei. Even though I’m skinny, I can beat foreign players. I’m aiming to play tennis like Hsieh, and I’m trying to become unique. I…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday October 16, 2024 The WTA’s elite eight is set for the WTA Finals Riyadh, as Barbora Krejcikova and Zheng Qinwen claimed the last two singles spots on offer. Krejcikova, this year’s Wimbledon champ, and Zheng, this year’s Olympic singles gold medalist in Paris, join Aryna Sabalenka, Iga Swiatek,…
On Wednesday, the WTA confirmed the 8 player singles field for its season-ending championships, the WTA Finals Riyadh, announcing that Zheng Qinwen and Barbora Krejcikova have secured the last two places, while 2 qualification places have yet to be filled in the doubles event. In 2024, we have seen 11 different winners across Grand Slams and…
Katie Boulter and Harriet Dart both opened with wins in China and Japan respectively to reach the Last 16… China | WTA 500 Ningbo Open British No 1 Katie Boulter scored an emphatic win over veteran Sara Errani, an Italian qualifier, 6-3 6-2, in a 1st-round match disrupted by heavy rain. 28-year old Boulter came…
The WTA Tour continues in China, at the Ningbo Open, and in Japan, at the Kinoshita Group Japan Open in Osaka this week… China | WTA 500 Ningbo Open With the WTA Finals just 2 weeks away, the WTA 500 in Ningbo has seen the withdrawal of top seed Jasmine Paolini, and No 5 seed…
By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday October 14, 2024 The field for next month’s WTA Finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is rounding out. Four players qualified for singles on Monday, with the WTA announcing that Coco Gauff, Jasmine Paolini, Elena Rybakina and Jessica Pegula had all made the cut. The quartet joins Iga Swiatek…
Coco Gauff will compete in the year-end championships on the WTA Tour, and she had a hilarious moment when talking about it at the 2024 Wuhan Open. For many of the top tennis players, the main goal for every season, apart from winning titles, is qualifying for the year-end championships. For Gauff, qualifying for the…
WTA Tour action continues in Ningbo, China next week with the penultimate WTA 500 tournament of the season, the Ningbo Open, and the last spot in the 8-player field at the WTA Finals up for grabs. World No 6 Jasmine Paolini is the top seed, with Zheng Qinwen, Emma Navarro and Barbora Krejcikova taking the…
