Women's Tennis WTA Tour 2023

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Iga Świątek won the Warsaw 250 the previous weekend and Prague has had even more rain the following week so the second SF had to be finished on Monday before the final where lucky loser Nao Hibino beat Linda Noskova 6-4 6-1 which is quite a shocking result tbh.

 

WTA 1000 in Montreal starts today, also the comeback of Caroline Wozniacki who drew Kimberley Birrell in R1. That's a soft draw as it gets but some of these Q placements in Main Draw have long been suspicious anyway

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The newest training technique by Iga Swiatek , training while being tape gagged

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Wozniacki beat Birrell 6-2 6-2 so the score was more or less what would be expected before Wozniacki's 3.5 year retirement

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Kasatkina-Rybakina match of the year?  

 

Rybakina had 80 UEs  and still somehow managed to win. Speaks to the level of quality that this match was. 

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Kasatkina's matches usually turn into some lenghty shitfests and that's primarily because of her junk 2nd serve - pretty much the worst in Top 50 ranking.

 

Meanwhile gets revenge over as Camila Osorio takes down Katie Boulter in Cincinnati Q1

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WTA 1000 in Montreal has been a complete dumpster fire. Due to rain delays Liudmila Samsonova had to play SF and Final on the same day and has nothing for the latter winning only one game vs Jessica Pegula. Moreover Elena Rybakina picked up a shoulder injury and has blasted WTA leadership which is led by the Alpha Clown himself Steve Simon. This was probably the worst "big" tournament of the season and it doesn't have much competition for that award.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/tennis/1801856/Elena-Rybakina-WTA-Canadian-US-Open

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Day 1 in Cincinnati and we are on the second rain delay already. This tournament also looks to be a joke in the making. And it's a joined ATP/WTA event so the schedule will be a bigger problem.

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Cleveland 250 MD is out and they somehow managed to fix the draw to have 43 year old Venus WIlliams play 16 year old Mirra Andreeva in R1.

 

That's 27 years age gap and must be a WTA MD record in XXI century as I don't remember Kimiko Date playing anyone this young after her comeback and that would be the only other potential player at this level.

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 Bouchard adds her name to the growing list of tennis players that are joining the PPA (Professional Pickleball Association) Tour 

 

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Edited September 7, 2023 by Josh

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Guadalajara 1000 has been skipped by many top names who focused on the Asian double-header coming up (WTA roadmap is total crap - brand new information) so we have a somewhat shocking final - Maria Sakkari vs Caroline Dolehide. If Sakkari can't beat Dolehide to finally add to her Rabat 250 title then she might as well never win a WTA title again. Dolehide saved 3 MP vs Martina Trevisan in the QF.