Women's Tennis WTA Tour 2024

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It will be a final in Prague as the hosts did us a favor and lost both semi-finals. Magda Linette vs Magdalena Fręch in WTA showdown... at like 9:30 am before flying to Paris?

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Linette won 62 61 and now both of them can take a private jet to Paris (which was only possible since some millionaire offered them a lift, otherwise they wouldn't make it to Paris with the no-fly zone today).

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4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Linette won 62 61 and now both of them can take a private jet to Paris (which was only possible since some millionaire offered them a lift, otherwise they wouldn't make it to Paris with the no-fly zone today).

It reminds me of Radwańska last-minute trip to Rio somehow.

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Zhang Shuai using her PR to beat Vince Spadea's legendary losing streak record

 

Zhang still has one or two PR left before she finally won't be allowed to even make 250 qualies on her current ranking. But she turns 36 in January so I expect her to retire once those PR finally end. She's only collecting GS and 1000 pay checks now.

 

 

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Sabalenka choking again like yesterday 

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 (BLR) Sabalenka defeats  Pegula 6-3 7-5 to win the Cincinnati Open title!
 

Sabalenka’s serve was unstoppable today for the most part, nothing Pegula could do about it. Quite glad that Sabalenka was able to close out the match in straight sets, even when she choked while serving for the match at 5-4 (perhaps a bit of nerves started to set in), because the match was on her racket. The match didn’t deserve a 3rd set. 

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25 year old McCartney Kessler - a former NCAA product - who only made Top 100 two weeks ago wins her first WTA title in Cleveland over Beatriz Haddad Maia. Kessler hasn't won a WTA tour match in her entire career before this week (one win at Australian Open which is ITF event). She also won Landisville 100k which earned her a MD wild card to US Open where she plays Marta Kostyuk in R1.