Belinda Bencic overcame Elena Rybakina in the semi-finals of the 2025 Abu Dhabi Open on Friday, reaching her first WTA Tour final since giving birth in 2024. The former Olympic champion came from ...

Bencic contested a WTA 125 event, an ITF Challenger and Billie Jean King Cup ... Bencic, who collected a Top 5 win by beating Elena Rybakina in the semifinals, held onto all the momentum in the ...

The Abu Dhabi Open was founded in 2021 to add to the strong Gulf season in women’s tennis. Since its debut in 2021, this outdoor hard-court WTA 500 event has made a significant impact on the sport ...

in April 2024 and returned from a 13-month break from the WTA Tour six months later. Her 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 triumph over world No. 5 Rybakina was her first top-five victory since becoming a mother and ...

Women's tennis world rankings are calculated by the WTA, who award points based on a player's performance at particular tournaments. The further a player progresses in a sanctioned event ...

Desert Smash, the starry tennis event that pairs Grand Slam champions and Hollywood stars on the court in the name of philanthropy, has announced that this year’s games will benefit the WTA ...

with an impressive come-from-behind victory over world No. 5 Elena Rybakina at the Abu Dhabi Open on Friday.

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When Rybakina arrived in Abu Dhabi last week ... some naturally wanted to know what would Sanguinetti do if the WTA's investigation cleared Vukov and the 37-year-old was allowed to officially ...

We are just over a month into the 2025 WTA Tour season and there have already been several marathon matches. The longest match of the campaign to date took place in one of the first tournaments of the ...