Victoria Mboko won the first WTA 1000 title of her career as she upset four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka in the final of the Canadian Open in Montreal on Thursday, Afrosport reports. The 18-year-old Canadian of DR Congo heritage, was playing in her first WTA final and had beaten Grand Slam champions, Sofia Kenin, Coco Gauff and Elena Rybakina on the way. Mboko was broken...
Former world number three and Grand Slam champion, Elena Rybakina, has appointed Goran Ivanisevic as her coach from 2025, Afrosport reports. Rybakina is one a one time grand slam champion back in 2022, a feat she accomplished with her current coach, Stefano Vukov. The Kazakhstani tennis player now seems to be moving on in terms of coaches as she now appoints a new coach to begin...
Coco Gauff defeated Karolina Muchova in straights sets 6-3, 6-4 in the final of the Cincinnati Open to claim her first-ever WTA 1000 title. The American teenage sensation and seventh seed recorded arguably the biggest win of her career when she stunned world number one Iga Swiatek in three sets in the semi-finals, her first win over the Pole in seven attempts. Gauff started brightly against...
Coco Gauff claimed her first win over Iga Swiatek as she defeated the Polish star 7-6 (7-2), 3-6, 6-4 to reach the final of the WTA 1000 Cincinnati Open. The 19-year-old American met the world number one seven times previously without managing to win a single set, including their last outing at the 2023 French Open quarter-finals which Swiatek won 6-4, 6-2. Saturday's encounter was a...
Noma Noha Akugue was denied her first-ever tennis career title after she lost to Arantxa Rus 6-0, 7-6 (7-3) in the final of the WTA Hamburg Open on Saturday. The 19-year-old German-Nigerian reached her first career final when she defeated Russia's Diana Shnaider in straight sets in the semi-finals on Friday. The 207th-ranked player in the world also defeated Brazil's Laura Pigossi, Australian Storm Hunter and...
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