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Wk.11- Striving to Thrive in the 305





*WEEK 11*

[Miami Qualifying through 3rd Round]

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RISER: Hailey Baptiste/USA
…while a number of young Bannerettes have struggled so far to find their footing in ’26 after seeing big improvement a season ago, Baptiste has not been one. Instead, she’s continued the push that last year saw her start ’25 ranked in the #90s and steadily climb over the course of the season, briefly spending time in the Top 50 before finishing the campaign at #61 after posting her best career results at three different majors, including her maiden slam Round of 16 in Paris.

In the new season, she’s reached her first AO 3rd Round and was a first-time tour semifinalist (at Abu Dhabi), leading to her cracking the Top 40 in February.

The first week in Miami has seen similar results come about, as after owning a winless 0-4 mark in the event from 2021-24, Baptiste’s early wins over Tatjana Maria and Liudmila Samsonova assured her of matching her tournament-best 3rd Round result from a year ago, then on Sunday she upset Elina Svitolina to reach her maiden 1000 Round of 16, recording her second career Top 10 victory with a win over the world #8.

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SURPRISE: Anastasia Zakharova/RUS
…already arriving in Miami at a career-best #74 after having gotten a 1st Round win in Indian Wells, Zakharova’s qualifying run (completed w/ a win over Rebecca Sramkova) turned into the Hordette’s best-ever 1000 result, a 3rd Round finish that matched her top slam finish in Melbourne two years ago.

Zakharova posted MD victories over Anna Bondar and Anna Kalinskaya, rallying from 5-2 down in the 3rd and saving a MP against her countrywoman as she claimed her second career Top 30 win (after def. Vekic last summer at Queen’s Club).

Although Zakharova fell in straights in the 3rd Round to Victoria Mboko, she’ll be set to crack the Top 70 in the post-Miami rankings.
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VETERAN: Sorana Cirstea/ROU
…less than a month from her 36th birthday, and in what she says in her final season, Cirstea’s Top 20 ranking quest continues with a second week run that has pushed her season mark to 17-4.

After posting a pair of 1000 3rd Round results in Dubai and Indian Wells following her title at Cluj-Napoca, the Romanian spent the opening week in Miami notching three more wins, the first over Zhang Shuai and then back-to-back Top 20 victories vs. Linda Noskova and Elise Mertens.

Alive in the 4th Round, Cirstea goes into the second week at a “live” #29, just under 500 rankings points from becoming the oldest player to debut in the Top 20 in tour history.
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FRESH FACE: Talia Gibson/AUS
…has any player broken through this Sunshine Swing more spectacularly than Gibson? Answer: nope.

On the heels of a career-best 1000 QF run at Indian Wells, which featured consecutive Top 20 upsets of Ekaterina Alexandrova, Clara Tauson and Jasmine Paolini (career Top 10 win #1), Gibson flew all the way across the U.S. to Miami to play qualifying with her new career-high ranking of #68 in hand (after having been outside the Top 100 just two weeks earlier).

Wins over Ekaterine Gorgodze and Kamilla Rakhimova got Gibson into another big draw, and once again she’s thriving. She allowed just *one game* to Abu Dhabi champ Bejlek, then handled former slam winner Naomi Osaka *and* Iva Jovic in straight sets for her fourth and fifth Sunshine Top 20 wins. Heading into the second week in the 305, Gibson is riding a 21-3 wave of success since the Australian Open and is at a “live” #56.

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DOWN: Iga Swiatek/POL
…so, is “the purge” imminent?

Frankly, it doesn’t seem so, but one has to wonder when Swiatek will finally play the tried-and-true tennis trump card and (figuratively) lay the blame for any lack of success on the court at the feet of her employeed team of professionals whose #1 collective job is to do whatever it takes to *not* give their player any reason to ever want/need to “clear the deck.”

Instead, after a 2nd Round loss in Miami to countrywoman Magda Linette (after having won a 6-1 1st set, and taking their only other meeting 6-1/6-1) Swiatek finds herself at something of a crossroads as the 2026 1st Quarter comes to a close. The surprise defeat ended her long streak of opening wins in tour events which went back to 2021, and sullied an even longer stretch that had only included *one* other one-and-done result going back to her maiden RG title run in 2020, a span which included 81 knock-out tournaments (the only kind at which there is any *real* significance to first-match victories, since a loss there means *it’s over* and you’re soon on a plane out of town).

Last grass season, coach Wim Fissette (stunningly) managed to get the stubborn Swiatek to try new things in matches when her original plan didn’t work, and it resulted in (finally) her best grass campaign ever, a shocking title at Wimbledon and a summer confidence carry-over that got her another win in Cincinnati, ending what had been a full year with zero final appearances and a series of sometimes-stunning defeats in situations and places where the Pole formerly thrived. But that inspired stretch was a short-term bump, and the “chaos” (Swiatek’s words) that overtakes her mind in matches has since returned. Maybe worse yet, she seems to have given such a bad state of being the oxygen it needs to mushroom inside her own mind, resulting in Swiatek often facing *two* opponents on gameday, one across the net and the other on her own side of the court.

The situation seems to sometimes paralyze her.

Whether it’s something that can be “coached” out of Swiatek remains to be seen, while whatever role “mental coach” Daria Abramowicz has in any sort of solution remains even murkier, considering her oft-eyebrow raising outsized role on the team and seeming lack of professional repercussions for any lack of success on the court, unlike Swiatek’s tactical coaches, a group which has included the since fired Piotr Sierzputowski and Tomasz Wiktorowski in recent years before the arrival of Fissette, who by the end of ’26 might become the third of the lot that Abramowicz has managed to outlast even while Swiatek’s “mental/emotional game” has often seemed to be a core problem over the last two years.

It’s also worth noting that the nearly two-year dip in Swiatek’s results have come after she tested postive for a banned substance in late 2024, yet skated (not quite Sinner-like, but close) without having to fight the Alphabets for ages (and for her reputation, if not career) like so many others in similar cases in which they ultimately were declared to have bore “No Significant Fault or Negligence” in the final ruling, as was the case with Swiatek. While there’s no reason to think, as opposed to the takes of some social media trolls, that Swiatek “was found out” and her downturn is the natural result of that, it *is* legitimate to wonder if the public embarrassment of the whole situation might have played a part in Swiatek’s later (seemingly growing) sensitivity to the pressures of the game, considering her clear desire to operate more “in the shadows” than some of the, say, more extroverted players (we see you, Aryna) on tour.

One used to rightfully hold a belief that the clay season would guide Swiatek out of any “slump” she might find herself in, but much of the overturn in her results has come since her aura-tarnishing *Bronze* medal winning run in the Paris Olympics on the terre battue at Roland Garros. What would have been a great result for any other player was anything but for the player whose RG dominance through 2024 practically ceded the Gold to her before the start of the tournament, and the fact is “the best clay court player of her generation” has not only not won a clay title since that stumble, but she’s not even reached a clay final.

Worse yet, even the “average” opponent is no longer scared to face her, and none “accept” impending defeat before the match even begins. That wasn’t the case not that long ago.

A great front runner throughout her career (though even that has slipped of late, as no longer do easy, sometimes-annihilating early-round wins nor even blow-out opening sets guarantee another Swiatek “W” is right around the corner), the last two years have shown Swiatek to be a totally different player (esp. emotionally) from the one who was at one time a legitimately dominant #1 figure in the sport.

Save for her three-month resurgence last summer, when she reached four finals in six events (winning Wimbledon, Cincinnati and Seoul), the other 18/19 (or so) months since her ’24 win at RG have seen her reach *zero* finals across 21 tournaments.

At the moment, Swiatek is sounding anything like a player of her (still, as the world #3 and reigning champ at SW19) great standing, as she seems to be lost when it comes to exactly where she’s headed. The next few months could be very telling.

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ITF PLAYERS: Tatiana Prozorova/RUS and Julieta Pareja/USA
…in Maribor (SLO), Prozorova arrived on the scene as the “stopper,” aka the player who finally put an end to Hanne Vandewinkel’s sterling winning streak, which had grown to Mboko-like length heading into Sunday’s final.

Vandewinkel, 21, came into the title-deciding contest on a 19-match win streak that had propelled her to her first “live” Top 100 ranking, but 22-year hold Hordette Prozorova completed a great week of her own with a 6-3/6-3 victory to pick up the win in what was her second $75K final of the season. In the other, in Pune last month, it was Vandewinkel (naturally) who’d played the role of spoiler in what was the first of her three consecutive ITF titles.

Prozorova dropped just one set on the week, in her opening match against Gabriela Knutson, before running off straight sets victories over Matilde Jorge, Jeline Vandromme, Jessika Ponchet and Vandewinkel.

In Chihuahua (MEX), 17-year old Pareja grabbed her first pro title since winning a $15K in 2024. The Bannerette, a ’25 Wimbledon girls’ finalist in both s/d and a tour-level Bogota semifinalist in her WTA debut event last year, didn’t surrender a set on the way to the title, taking out the likes of Despina Papamichail and Jazmin Ortenzi before a 6-3/7-6 win over 20-year old Canadian Kayla Cross in the final.

With her win, Pareja jumps 59 spots in the “live” rankings to a new career high of #264. She’s the second highest-ranked (behind only Emerson Jones) of the four under-18 aged players in the Top 300.

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JUNIOR STARS: Nauhany Vitoria Leme da Silva/BRA and Mariella Thamm/GER
…well, Leme da Silva was at it again, picking up the J500 Banana Bowl title in Gaspar, Brazil, via a three-set final victory over fellow Brazilian Victoria Luiza Barros, 16.

The 15-year old Leme da Silva hadn’t dropped a set en route to the final, carrying over her momentum from back-to-back J300 wins in Porto Alegre and at the South American Regional Championships in Santa Cruz. She’s now on a 21-match winning streak at the junior level that dates back to her play in the Junior BJK Cup last November.

Over that same stretch, she’s also reached a pair of $15K pro finals (in October/November, winning one) and made her debut for Brazil in the women’s BJK Cup (Nov.). In September, she made her tour-level debut in Sao Paulo and became the first player born in 2010 to notch a MD WTA victory. She’d played doubles in that same event alongside Barros.

Meanwhile, 16-year old Thamm (jr. #22) added to her recent hot run with a J300 title in Villena, Spain.

Thamm’s 6-3/6-4 win over Spaniard Paola Pinera Celorio improved the German’s mark to 19-1 in her last four events, a stretch during which she’s also reached a trio of J200 finals (winning two). This is her second career J300 win, along with a title run in the Coffee Bowl in San Jose, Costa Rica in January 2025.

Thamm also notched a pair of pro singles crowns in two $15K challengers last season.

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WHEELCHAIR: Kgothatso Montjane/RSA
…a week after we saw an all-NextGen final between the two youngest players in the WC Top 10 (Lizzy de Greef def. Ksenia Chasteau), the Cajun Classic 1000 event in Baton Rouge pitted two of the three oldest current Top 10 members in an all-veteran title match.

There, 35-year old Aniek Van Koot claimed the 1st set at 7-5 from the 39-year old Montjane, then led the South African 4-2 in a 2nd set TB. But Montjane swept the final five points to force a 3rd, where she led 5-1 and served for what would be her biggest singles title since 2018.

An eight-time slam singles semifinalist and historic finalist at Wimbledon in 2021, much of Montjane’s greatest success has come in doubles, where she’s picked up four major titles. Between 2019-25, her biggest singles wins came in four (then-) Series 2 events.

On Sunday, Montjane was broken at love when serving for the title, then saw Van Koot hold at love to close within 5-3. Serving for the match again, Montjane got to within two points of the win at 30/30, but soon after DF’d on BP and saw her break lead evaporate with the score then at 5-4. But after all that to get back into the match, Van Koot couldn’t keep it up. Her own DF put her down love/40 in the next game, and on the first MP of a triple MP situation it was Montjane who fired off the lefty forehand winner that gave her one of her biggest career singles wins.

Oh, and the *other* of the three oldest women in the WC Top 10? That’d be 36-year old Zhu Zhenzhen. She was in Baton Rouge, as well, and rolled off with the doubles title alongside Momoko Ohtani, defeating Van Koot and Lucy Shuker in the final.
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[Miami Qualifying through 3rd Round]

1. Miami 2nd Rd. – Magda Linette def. Iga Swiatek
…1-6/7-5/6-3. Two Poles were better than one, as Linette (teamed with coach Aga Radwanska) staged a rally after losing a 6-1 1st (her third straight 6-1 set lost to her countrywoman, after a 6-1/6-1 loss in Beijing in 2023) to hand Swiatek the latest in her growing list of eye-opening losses against players she’d previously had little difficulty with between the lines (though, granted, their only other meeting came two and a half years ago).

In this case, Swiatek never broke Linette’s serve in either of the final two sets, ending her string of 68 straight opening wins in knock-out events (I suppose one *could* say her “streak” was 73 in all events but, really, why *would* one do that since in WTAF and team events there are no lose-and-go-home stakes when it come to opening matches?) that goes back to 2021. Her one-and-done loss in Cincinnati in 2021 (vs. Ons Jabeur) had been her only winless *regular* singles event of the run of 81 tournaments that started with her breakout title at Roland Garros in 2020.

Linette’s momentum didn’t last, as she fell in her next match to Alex Eala, 6-3/7-6.
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2. Miami 1st Rd. – Camila Osorio def. Katerina Siniakova
…6-1/6-4. Siniakova has had an odd few weeks. A Round of 16 singles run in Indian Wells, with an upset of defending champ Mirra Andreeva (who had an emotional exit), ended in tears with a retirement. But she rebounded to win the doubles titles.

Miami is already off to an odd start, as so soon after she was on the opposite site of Andreeva’s exit, Siniakova had her own viral moment.

She lost in the 1st Round in straight sets to Camila Osorio in front of a pro-Colombian crowd, breaking to lead 4-2 in the 2nd after an MTO, but then dropping 13 of 14 points. After slipping and briefly going down on MP, the Czech did a drive-by handshake with a bewildered Osorio (who’d crossed sides to meet her), then quickly grabbed her things and raced off the court with tears in her eyes (so she was likely just trying to get away before becoming more emotional, and it wasn’t personal w/ her opponent).

Well, she *does* still have the doubles.

Two views of the end (the second w/ the walk-off, and some Martina Navratilova commentary)…

To quote Li Na, “Welcome to the crazy women’s tennis tour.” You never know what you’re gonna get.
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3. Miami 1st Rd. – Elsa Jacquemot def. Dasha Vidmanova
…6-7(5)/7-5/7-5. Jacquemot took early leads in all three sets (3-1 in both the 1st and 2nd, and 4-2 in the 3rd), and managed to eke out wins in the final two sets to advance.

Vidmanova won four straight games in the 1st to lead 5-3, but the Pastry surged back to force a TB, which the Czech claimed 7-5. Jacquemot’s 3-1 edge in the 2nd dissolved to a 5-5 tie when she couldn’t serve out the set, but a break/hold combo finally allowed her to take it.

In the decider, Vidmanova again ran off a game-winning streak (three straight) to lead 5-4, only to see Jacquemot break at love and then hold on her second MP to end the 3:15 affair.
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4. Miami Q1 – Kamilla Rakhimova def. Leolia Jeanjean
…6-7(1)/7-5/6-0. Rakhimova wasn’t able to qualify for the Miami draw (losing to Talia Gibson in the Q2), but advanced far enough to earn a lucky loser spot since she managed to escape Jeanjean in her opening match.

Jeanjean had led 7-6/5-2, and served for the win at 5-3. Rakhimova swept the final five games of the 2nd, saving a BP in game 12 and holding to level the match on her sixth SP of the game. She went on to win the 3rd at love.

The Uzbeki won a 1st Round match over Solana Sierra, but fell a round later to Marta Kostyuk.
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5. Miami 1st Rd. – Lilli Tagger def. Ella Seidel
…6-7(8)/6-4/7-5. Tagger received wild cards into the MD of both ends of the Sunshine Swing, playing 1st Round matches for the first times in her career at 1000 events. In Indian Wells, the 17-year old Austrian got a win over Varvara Gracheva, and in Miami she did the same vs. Ella Seidel.

It took some work against the German, though. Tagger couldn’t convert a SP in the 1st set TB as Seidel won it 10-8, but it was the teenager who rallied in the 3rd, staging a comeback from 4-2 down and saving a MP on serve at 5-4. After getting the hold, Tagger completed a break/hold combo in the final two games to get the win.
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6. Miami 3rd Rd. – Jaqueline Cristian def. Ekaterina Alexandrova
…6-3/4-6/7-6(5). Alexandrova has slipped out of the Top 10 in the opening months of ’26 and remains under .500 for the year. She had Cristian where she seemingly wanted her here, leading 4-2 in the 3rd. The Romanian broke to level things at 4-4 on her fourth BP of game 8, but Alexandrova regained her edge and served for the match at 6-5. Uh-uh.

Cristian went on to take the tie-break to reach her first 1000 Round of 16.

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7. Miami 3rd Rd. – Alona Ostapenko def. Jasmine Paolini
…5-7/6-2/7-5. Ostapenko led Paolini 4-0 in the 3rd, but still had to fight her way to the finish line when the Italian knotted things up at 5-5.

A break and hold combo finally got the win for the Latvian, who posted just her second Top 10 victory (w/ one over Alexandrova in Doha) since she took out *both* Iga Swiatek and Aryna Sabalenka during her stellar title run in Stuttgart last April.

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8. Miami Q1 – Viktorija Golubic def. Thea Frodin
…2-6/6-3/6-2. 17-year old Frodin, a junior semifinalist at AO26 (and girls’ doubles finalist at Wimbledon ’25), takes the #2 Q-seed to the limit in the Bannerette’s tour qualifying debut.

Frodin portrayed a young Serena Williams in “King Richard,” and has an oh-so-WTA family background. Her Dad is Swedish, her mother French. She grew up in Gabon, and has dual U.S./Swedish citizenship (hmmm… something to remember?). I saw her referred to somewhere as “African Viking Goddess,” which is surely a unique moniker.

Frodin reached her first pro singles final last month with a title match appearance in a $35K challenger in Arcadia, California.

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9. Miami 1st Rd. – Dayana Yastremska def. Ashlyn Krueger
…2-6/6-4/7-5. Krueger had turned around her woeful ’26 start over her last two events, rebounding from her 1-5 open to the season (after a 1-6 close in ’25) with a 5-2 spurt in Austin and Indian Wells.

The Bannerette had a shot at another 1000 MD win here, holding three MP vs. Yastremska at 5-4 in the 3rd before letting the “W” slip through her fingers.
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10. Miami 2nd Rd. – Anastasia Zakharova def. Anna Kalinskaya
…3-6/6-1/7-5. Zakharova’s career-best 1000 run was achieved with a massive final set comeback vs. countrywoman Kalinskaya, who led 4-1, held a MP at 5-2, and served for the win at 5-3.

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11. North American Regional Championship (San Diego J300) Final – Jordyn Hazelitt def. Avery Alexander
…6-1/6-2. Hazelitt, 15, takes her biggest career junior crown in San Diego, sweeping the s/d titles at the North American Regional Championship (in her second career J300 singles final, with the other coming in January in Barranquilla) with a 6-1/6-2 win over Canadian Alexander (who’d gone three hours in both her QF and SF wins).

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12. $75K Kofu JPN Final – Sofia Costoulas def. Ma Yexin
…7-5/6-3. Another young Belgian, 20-year old Costoulas (the AO22 junior runner-up) grabs her second career $75K crown. She jumps nearly 20 spots in the “live” rankings to what would be a new career high around #132.

In January, Costoulas qualified in Auckland to make her WTA tour MD debut, then played her way into the QF. It was part of a four-QF run over her first five tournaments of ’26 (across the WTA, 125 and ITF levels). With her result this week, she’s 15-7 on the year.

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[Miami Qualifying through 3rd Round]

1. Miami 1st Rd. – Francesca Jones def. Venus Williams
…7-5/7-5. Williams continues to make appearances, brighten lives and provide memorable moments to fans and opponents. But she’s now lost nine straight. She’s posted just one win in singles since a 1st Round victory in Cincinnati… in *2023*. That lone win came last summer vs. Peyton Stearns in Washington.

In this case, it was Jones who notched her first career 1000 MD victory, doing so against one of the inspirations (along w/ Serena) that she says made her career possible.

Jones came into Miami on a four-match losing streak. She ultimately retired from her 2nd Round match vs. Jessie Pegula due to illness. It’s the Brit’s fourth retirement in her last six events (all but one coming in the ’26 season).
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2. Miami 1st Rd. – Emerson Jones def. Linda Fruhvirtova
…3-6/7-6(3)/7-6(4). 17-year old Jones gets the win to become the youngest Aussie to win a 1000 MD match since Jelena Dokic twenty-seven years ago.

Fruhvirtova led 6-3/4-2 before Jones knotted the 2nd set at 5-5, then saved four BP to hold for a 6-5 edge before winning a 7-3 tie-break to force a decider. In the 3rd it was Jones who had the early lead (4-1), holding a MP at 5-4. The Czech forced another TB, and led it 4-2 before the Aussie ripped off the last five points to squeeze out the victory.

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— Diane Elayne Dees (@womenwhoserve.bsky.social) March 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM

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The documentary from the two French brothers, who were in NYC that day shooting a film about people in the NYC Fire Department, remains the most remarkable as-it-happened piece of work that I’ve ever seen. I still think it’s worth a watch every few years just to be forced to remember how things played out that awful day.

The 25th anniversary is later this year.

Wk.11- Striving to Thrive in the 305

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Most significant point of the 1st Quarter of 2026?

Meanwhile (I can see it)…

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*MIAMI FACTS, 1985-present*
=SINGLES=
[recent finals]

2018 Sloane Stephens def. Alona Ostapenko

2019 Ash Barty def. Karolina Pliskova

2020 DNP

2021 Ash Barty def. Bianca Andreescu

2022 Iga Swiatek def. Naomi Osaka

2023 Petra Kvitova def. Elena Rybakina

2024 Danielle Collins d. Elena Rybakina

2025 Aryna Sabalenka d. Jessie Pegula

[Most Singles Titles]

8 – Serena Williams, USA

5 – Steffi Graf, GER

3 – Victoria Azarenka, BLR

2 – Ash Barty, AUS

2 – Kim Clijsters, BEL

2 – Martina Hingis, SUI

2 – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, ESP

2 – Monica Seles, YUG

2 – Venus Williams, USA

[Consecutive Titles]

3 – Steffi Graf (1994-96)

3 – Serena Williams (2002-04)

3 – Serena Williams (2013-15)

2 – Steffi Graf (1987-88)

2 – Monica Seles (1990-91)

2 – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1992-93)

2 – Venus Williams (1998-99)

2 – Serena Williams (2007-08)

2 – Ash Barty (2019/21)

[Most Finals]

10 – Serena Williams (8-2)

7 – Steffi Graf (5-2)

5 – Chris Evert (1-4)

5 – Maria Sharapova (0-5)

4 – Venus Williams (3-1)

3 – Victoria Azarenka (3-0)

3 – Monica Seles (2-1)

3 – Gabriela Sabatini (1-2)

3 – Jennifer Capriati (0-3)

2 – Ash Barty (2-0)

2 – Kim Clijsters (2-0)

2 – Martina Hingis (2-0)

2 – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (2-0)

2 – Svetlana Kuznetsova (1-1)

2 – Aryna Sabalenka (1-1)

2 – Elena Rybakina (0-2)

[Consecutive Finals]

5 – Chris Evert (1985-89)

4 – Steffi Graf (1993-96)

3 – Steffi Graf (1986-88)

3 – Jennifer Capriati (2001-03)

3 – Serena Williams (2002-04)

3 – Serena Williams (2007-09)

3 – Maria Sharapova (2011-13)

3 – Serena Williams (2013-15)

2 – Monica Seles (1990-91)

2 – Gabriela Sabatini (1991-92)

2 – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario (1992-93)

2 – Venus Williams (1998-99)

2 – Maria Sharapova (2005-06)

2 – Ash Barty (2019/21)

2 – Elena Rybakina (2023-24)

[Consecutive Match Wins]

21 – Steffi Graf (1994-96,99)

21 – Serena Willians (2002-05)

20 – Serena Williams (2013-16)

[1 Unseeded Champion]

2005 Kim Clijsters
2024 Danielle Collins
[Low-Ranked Champion]
#53 – Danielle Collins (2024)
[Youngest Singles Champion]
16y,111d – Monica Seles (1990)
[Oldest Singles Champion]

33y,190d – Serena Williams (2015)

33y,25d – Petra Kvitova (2023)

[Oldest Singles Finalist]

34 – Chris Evert (1989)

33 – Chris Evert (1988)

33 – Serena Williams (2015) – W

33 – Petra Kvitova (2023) – W

[6 Finalists Have Not a Reached Slam Final]

1990 Judith Weisner
1995 Kimiko Date
1996 Chanda Rubin
1998 Anna Kournikova
2015 Carla Suarez Navarro
2017 Johanna Konta (W)
[10 Finalists Have Never Won a Slam]

1990 Judith Weisner
1994 Natasha Zvereva
1995 Kimiko Date
1996 Chanda Rubin
1998 Anna Kournikova
2008 Jelena Jankovic
2012 Aga Radwanska (W)
2015 Carla Suarez Navarro
2017 Johanna Konta (W)
2024 Danielle Collins (W)
2025 Jessie Pegula

=DOUBLES=
[recent champions]

2018 Ash Barty/CoCo Vandeweghe

2019 Elise Mertens/Aryna Sabalenka

2020 DNP

2021 Shuko Aoyma/Ena Shibahara

2022 Laura Siegemund/Vera Zvonareva

2023 Coco Gauff/Jessie Pegula

2024 Sofia Kenin/Bethanie Mattek-Sands

2025 Mirra Andreeva/Diana Shnaider

[Most Titles]

7 – Jana Novotna, CZE

5 – Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, ESP

4 – Martina Hingis, SUI

3 – Nadia Petrova, RUS

3 – Lisa Raymond, USA

3 – Helena Sukova, CZE

2 – Gigi Fernandez, USA

2 – Svetlana Kuznetsova, RUS

2 – Bethanie Mattek-Sands, USA

2 – Martina Navratilova, USA

2 – Larisa Savchenko Neiland, LAT

2 – Pam Shriver, USA

2 – Katarina Srebotnik, SLO

2 – Samantha Stosur, AUS

2 – Ai Sugiyama, JPN

2 – Natasha Zvereva, BLR

[Most Titles – duos]
2 – Hingis/Novotna, SUI/CZE

2 – Novotna/Sanchez Vicario, CZE/ESP

2 – Novotna/Sukova, CZE/CZE

2 – Raymond/Stosur, USA/AUS

[Consecutive Titles]
1986-87 Pam Shriver, USA

1989-90 Novotna/Sukova, CZE/CZE

1992-93 Larisa Savchenko Neiland, LAT

1995-96 Novotna/Sanchez Vicario, CZE/ESP

1996-97 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, ESP

1998-99 Hingis/Novotna, SUI/CZE

2006-07 Raymond/Stosur, USA/AUS

2012-13 Nadia Petrova, RUS

2014-15 Martina Hingis, SUI

*”SUNSHINE DOUBLE” (IW/MIA) WINNERS*
[WS]
1994 Steffi Graf, GER
1996 Steffi Graf, GER
2005 Kim Clijsters , BEL
2016 Victoria Azarenka, BLR
2022 Iga Swiatek, POL
[WD]
1997 Natasha Zvereva, BLR
1999 Martina Hingis, SUI
2002 Lisa Raymond/Rennae Stubbs, USA/AUS
2006 Lisa Raymond/Samantha Stosur, USA/AUS
2007 Lisa Raymond/Samantha Stosur, USA/AUS
2015 Martina Hingis/Sania Mirza, SUI/IND
2016 Bethanie Mattek-Sands, USA
2019 Elise Mertens/Aryna Sabalenka, BEL/BLR
[both WS/WD in career]
none (Sabalenka would be the first w/ a ’26 singles title in Miami)
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NOTE: Jana Novotna/Helena Sukova won both IW/Mia as non-consecutive events in 1990

Wk.11- Striving to Thrive in the 305

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— Ann Telnaes (@anntelnaes.bsky.social) March 17, 2026 at 9:46 AM

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The US:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKc…
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— ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Fuzzy ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น (@canadianfuzzy.bsky.social) March 17, 2026 at 7:53 AM

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Remember: Itโ€™s not about what this country can or canโ€™t afford. Itโ€™s about priorities.
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— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) March 20, 2026 at 3:16 PM

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Someday, Trump will die as we all must, and on that day, his knuckle-dragging fanbase will be scandalized and aggrieved that anyone would breath a negative word about him upon his death.

Remind them of days like today when Trump said he's "glad" that Robert Mueller died.

— Charlotte Clymer (@charlotteclymer.bsky.social) March 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM

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Can't argue with that.
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— Space Pig (@realspacepig.bsky.social) March 22, 2026 at 9:21 AM

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I know he’s had a troublesome history at times in the years since, but his Xander was an essential character on a great show. Wouldn’t have been the same without his performance. I saw someone say he was the “Chandler” (from Friends) of Buffy, and I thought that was a pretty fair comparison. (And, ironically, both he and Matthew Perry are gone.)

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All for now.

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