The 2024 Hobart International is only a Wta 250 tournament, but the draw promises a lot of exciting action regardless.
Held from January 8th to 13th, ahead of the season's first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, the Hobart International serves as a great opportunity for players to prepare themselves for the first major of the year.
Many took this chance, and while the majority of the higher-ranked players entered the 2024 Adelaide International draw, there are still many who want to play a Wta 250 tournament, and the leading name in the draw is Elise Mertens, who will be the top seed.
However, the Belgian won't have an easy task at the tournament, as already in her first match, she'll take on the 2022 Australian Open finalist, Danielle Collins, who dropped to the 54th place in the Wta Rankings in recent seasons.
Another player who has experience playing a Grand Slam final and actually...
Held from January 8th to 13th, ahead of the season's first Grand Slam tournament in Melbourne, the Hobart International serves as a great opportunity for players to prepare themselves for the first major of the year.
Many took this chance, and while the majority of the higher-ranked players entered the 2024 Adelaide International draw, there are still many who want to play a Wta 250 tournament, and the leading name in the draw is Elise Mertens, who will be the top seed.
However, the Belgian won't have an easy task at the tournament, as already in her first match, she'll take on the 2022 Australian Open finalist, Danielle Collins, who dropped to the 54th place in the Wta Rankings in recent seasons.
Another player who has experience playing a Grand Slam final and actually...
- 1/7/2024
- Tennis-Infinity
The Thailand Open in the district of Hua Hin returns for a second edition as a fully-fledged Tour-level tournament on the Wta tour.
Running from January 29th to February 4th, this Wta 250 tournament will welcome 32 players to compete for ranking points and a main tour title. As one of Thailand's top tourist destinations, Hua Hin will also be a major sporting attraction at the end of January.
Four of the world's Top 50 players have already committed to play in the event, which is held on outdoor hard courts at the True Arena in Hua Hin, including 2023 Australian Open semifinalist Magda Linette. Since its inception in 2019, the Thailand Open has crowned a new champion each season.
The Pole is the tournament's top seed and a former champion (2020) when the event was staged at an International level. China's Lin Zhu became the inaugural champion when the tournament was a freshly minted 250-level event last season.
Running from January 29th to February 4th, this Wta 250 tournament will welcome 32 players to compete for ranking points and a main tour title. As one of Thailand's top tourist destinations, Hua Hin will also be a major sporting attraction at the end of January.
Four of the world's Top 50 players have already committed to play in the event, which is held on outdoor hard courts at the True Arena in Hua Hin, including 2023 Australian Open semifinalist Magda Linette. Since its inception in 2019, the Thailand Open has crowned a new champion each season.
The Pole is the tournament's top seed and a former champion (2020) when the event was staged at an International level. China's Lin Zhu became the inaugural champion when the tournament was a freshly minted 250-level event last season.
- 1/3/2024
- Tennis-Infinity
British No. 1 Katie Boulter leads the list of nominations for the Wta Most Improved Player of the Year award alongside four other players.
This distinction is bestowed upon a player ranked inside the Top 100 and who showed substantial improvement throughout the season. Improvement in this case is attributed to form, results, and ranking. Boulter has been honored in this category thanks to her best-ever season on tour.
The 27-year-old started the season playing on the Itf circuit and ranked World No. 136. She excelled at that level winning one title from three finals. It was during the grass swing when Boulter made the whole world take notice of her talent.
She won the Wta 250 in Nottingham - her first title at the Tour level - in the historic all-British final. That result gave Boulter the blueprint to break the world's Top 50 for the first time thanks to third-round finishes at Wimbledon and the US Open.
This distinction is bestowed upon a player ranked inside the Top 100 and who showed substantial improvement throughout the season. Improvement in this case is attributed to form, results, and ranking. Boulter has been honored in this category thanks to her best-ever season on tour.
The 27-year-old started the season playing on the Itf circuit and ranked World No. 136. She excelled at that level winning one title from three finals. It was during the grass swing when Boulter made the whole world take notice of her talent.
She won the Wta 250 in Nottingham - her first title at the Tour level - in the historic all-British final. That result gave Boulter the blueprint to break the world's Top 50 for the first time thanks to third-round finishes at Wimbledon and the US Open.
- 11/21/2023
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After Emma Raducanu pulled out of the Macau Tennis Masters exhibition, Taylor Fritz and Daria Kasatkina are set to headline it.
Emma Raducanu was supposed to officially make her tennis comeback on Chinese soil at the Macau exhibition but withdrew from the tournament because she wasn't yet in playing condition.
Her comeback will likely happen about a month later at the Australian Open, which means that the event will run without the British player, but still, the field will be very competitive.
The headliners of the tournament are mainly Taylor Fritz and Daria Kasatkaina, who are the biggest names that will play at the event. It will run early in the exhibition calendar from December 2nd to the 3rd, with the full lineup also known.
Besides Kastkina and Fritz, we'll also see Borna Coric, Tallon Griekspoor, and native players Zhizhen Zhang and Xinyu Wang. It's literally going to start just...
Emma Raducanu was supposed to officially make her tennis comeback on Chinese soil at the Macau exhibition but withdrew from the tournament because she wasn't yet in playing condition.
Her comeback will likely happen about a month later at the Australian Open, which means that the event will run without the British player, but still, the field will be very competitive.
The headliners of the tournament are mainly Taylor Fritz and Daria Kasatkaina, who are the biggest names that will play at the event. It will run early in the exhibition calendar from December 2nd to the 3rd, with the full lineup also known.
Besides Kastkina and Fritz, we'll also see Borna Coric, Tallon Griekspoor, and native players Zhizhen Zhang and Xinyu Wang. It's literally going to start just...
- 11/17/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
There is another twist in Emma Raducanu's comeback plans and it is bad news for those patiently waiting for her much-anticipated return to tennis.
Raducanu, who hasn't played a competitive match since mid-April, was gearing up for her first match of preseason at the Macau exhibition in her mother's homeland in China at the start of December.
But she has now suffered a fresh setback in her preparations and made the decision to withdraw from the event on the day she was celebrating her 21st birthday. This new development is likely to affect Raducanu's return in 2024.
As reported by the Daily Mail UK, the British tennis star was requested by the tournament organizers to commit to the schedule, but there were no guarantees she would play at the tournament which is set to begin on December 2.
The early confirmation of her absence was meant to give the tournament adequate...
Raducanu, who hasn't played a competitive match since mid-April, was gearing up for her first match of preseason at the Macau exhibition in her mother's homeland in China at the start of December.
But she has now suffered a fresh setback in her preparations and made the decision to withdraw from the event on the day she was celebrating her 21st birthday. This new development is likely to affect Raducanu's return in 2024.
As reported by the Daily Mail UK, the British tennis star was requested by the tournament organizers to commit to the schedule, but there were no guarantees she would play at the tournament which is set to begin on December 2.
The early confirmation of her absence was meant to give the tournament adequate...
- 11/13/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
Aryna Sabalenka will start her eighth week at the top of the Wta rankings, but the big question is whether she will stay there beyond Sunday.
Sabalenka is in a race with Poland's Iga Swiatek , the former World No. 1, who wants her crown back. The Wta Finals, which commenced on Sunday, will determine their fate at the end of the week. Just 630 points seperate the world's top two who will vie to win the season finale for the first time.
The regular Wta tennis season came to an end this past week, culminating with one last tournament in Zhuhai - the Wta Elite Trophy. Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia defeated China's new star Qinwen Zheng in the final. Haddad Maia rose as high as 11th after that triumph with 2,855 points - just 25 points short of breaking the Top 10.
Zheng, for her part, has climbed to a career-high ranking of No. 15 and...
Sabalenka is in a race with Poland's Iga Swiatek , the former World No. 1, who wants her crown back. The Wta Finals, which commenced on Sunday, will determine their fate at the end of the week. Just 630 points seperate the world's top two who will vie to win the season finale for the first time.
The regular Wta tennis season came to an end this past week, culminating with one last tournament in Zhuhai - the Wta Elite Trophy. Brazil's Beatriz Haddad Maia defeated China's new star Qinwen Zheng in the final. Haddad Maia rose as high as 11th after that triumph with 2,855 points - just 25 points short of breaking the Top 10.
Zheng, for her part, has climbed to a career-high ranking of No. 15 and...
- 10/30/2023
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Iga Swiatek kept her spot in the driver's seat intact, edging Aryna Sabalenka in the race for the coveted No. 1 ranking for the final Grand Slam of the season in the latest Wta Rankings.
The Canadian Open threw up major storylines, but also twists and turns before the upcoming 2023 US Open in a couple of weeks' time. Poland's Swiatek will remain No. 1 for the remainder of the US Swing, at least that bit is absolute.
Sabalenka's three-hour defeat to Liudmila Samsonova in Montreal handed Swiatek the keys to lock her place as the top seed in New York. It means even if Sabalenka won the Cincinnati Masters, she'd only get a maximum of 9,296 points, which is still lower than Swiatek's current points total of 9,730 .
There is no movement in the world's Top 10, but newly-crowned Montreal champion and World No. 3 Jessica Pegula stretches her lead over fourth-placed Elena Rybakina to 275 points.
The Canadian Open threw up major storylines, but also twists and turns before the upcoming 2023 US Open in a couple of weeks' time. Poland's Swiatek will remain No. 1 for the remainder of the US Swing, at least that bit is absolute.
Sabalenka's three-hour defeat to Liudmila Samsonova in Montreal handed Swiatek the keys to lock her place as the top seed in New York. It means even if Sabalenka won the Cincinnati Masters, she'd only get a maximum of 9,296 points, which is still lower than Swiatek's current points total of 9,730 .
There is no movement in the world's Top 10, but newly-crowned Montreal champion and World No. 3 Jessica Pegula stretches her lead over fourth-placed Elena Rybakina to 275 points.
- 8/14/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
Held from July 31st to August 6th, the 2023 Prague Open is probably the most prestigious Wta tournament held in the Czech Republic, but this year also the most controversial.
As a Wta 250 tournament in the capital of the Czech Republic, the event managed to put together quite a solid entry list , but that started falling apart when the projected top seed Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the tournament .
The tournament suffered yet another blow when the country prevented Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing , something that also happened in Poland only a week ago ahead of the 2023 Poland Open in Warsaw .
So the draw for the tournament had to be made without the third-highest-ranked Czech player in the Wta Rankings , but also without Russian and Belarusian players that wanted to compete in the Czech capital.
That means that the top seed for the tournament is Marie Bouzkova , who will play against...
As a Wta 250 tournament in the capital of the Czech Republic, the event managed to put together quite a solid entry list , but that started falling apart when the projected top seed Barbora Krejcikova withdrew from the tournament .
The tournament suffered yet another blow when the country prevented Russian and Belarusian athletes from competing , something that also happened in Poland only a week ago ahead of the 2023 Poland Open in Warsaw .
So the draw for the tournament had to be made without the third-highest-ranked Czech player in the Wta Rankings , but also without Russian and Belarusian players that wanted to compete in the Czech capital.
That means that the top seed for the tournament is Marie Bouzkova , who will play against...
- 7/30/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
From May 28th to June 11th, the Wta Tour moves to Paris for the 2023 Roland Garros, or the French Open, and the draw was released.
Last year, the fans in the French capital saw another triumph of Iga Swiatek who defeated Coco Gauff in the final of the only clay-court Grand Slam event. In 2023, both players will be in Paris defending their performance.
The first-seeded Pole will begin in the first round against Cristina Bucsa from Spain, while Coco Gauff will be facing Rebeka Masarova in her first round at the 2023 Roland Garros. The second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka will want to forget the disappointing loss from Rome against Marta Kostyuk in the first round.
Elena Rybakina will be also the name that everyone will keep an eye on. The Kazakh won in Rome and she will be one of the favourites also in Paris. In the first round of the tournament,...
Last year, the fans in the French capital saw another triumph of Iga Swiatek who defeated Coco Gauff in the final of the only clay-court Grand Slam event. In 2023, both players will be in Paris defending their performance.
The first-seeded Pole will begin in the first round against Cristina Bucsa from Spain, while Coco Gauff will be facing Rebeka Masarova in her first round at the 2023 Roland Garros. The second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka will want to forget the disappointing loss from Rome against Marta Kostyuk in the first round.
Elena Rybakina will be also the name that everyone will keep an eye on. The Kazakh won in Rome and she will be one of the favourites also in Paris. In the first round of the tournament,...
- 5/25/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
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