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Wk.9- The Road to (Indian) Wells-ville

*WEEK 9*

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[IW Through 2nd Round]

RISERS: Jaqueline Cristien/ROU and Oleksandra Oliynykova/UKR

…you can take the Romanian out of Transylvania, but you (apparently) can’t take the “vampire” out of Cristian, who twice rose from the dead to pull off unlikely victories in the first week of action in Indian Wells.

First, she rallied from 3-0 down in the 3rd vs. Janice Tjen in the 1st Round, winning an 8-6 tie-break. Things were a little more complicated against Maya Joint in the 2nd. Cristian was the one in charge in the deciding set vs. the Aussie, leading 4-2 before dropping three straight games. Joint had three MP on Cristian’s serve at 5-4, but the Romanian held on to advance.

Cristian qualifed and reached a QF back in Adelaide, but had been 3-5 since then before pulling out her two opening wins in the desert. Having reached a career-high #33 just two weeks ago, she’ll likely set a new one following Indian Wells.

The Romanian lost in straight sets in the 3rd Round on Sunday to Aryna Sabalenka.

Elsewhere, Oliynykova continues to make her mark on the ’26 season, both on and off court. Of course, after posting some really nice lower level results down the stretch of the ’25 season (going an under-the-radar 7-0 in 125/ITF finals and cracking the Top 100), the Ukrainian stepped into the spotlight during the AO with her comments about dealing with the ongoing war in her home country…

Both in Melbourne and since, Oliynykova has dragged back out into the light the past notions of excluding RUS/BLR players from the tour, and even refused to shake the hand of a “Hungarian* opponent because she’d played in an unsanctioned, post-invasion exhibition in Russia more than three years ago.

But aside from all that, it’s been Oliynykova’s results — along with her unique look and unpredictable game style — that have made her a fan favorite. She became almost an “honorary Romanian” (complete with facial tattoos temporarily redrawn to look like bats flying beneath her eyes) during her crowd-pleasing SF run in Cluj last month in just her second tour-level MD appearance.

This week in Antalya, the Ukrainian was at it again, reaching yet another 125 final. This time, she lost — for the first time in a final since August ’24, after winning eight straight times — to countrywoman Anhelina Kalinina in three sets, but finds herself up to another new career high at a “live” #66.

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SURPRISE: Himeno Sakatsume/JPN

…already with ’26 qualifying run that ultimately led to a 125 SF in Canberra, and her slam MD debut at AO26, Sakatsume had another “moment” in Indian Wells with a pair of wins over Simona Waltert and Nikola Bartunkova to reach her maiden 1000 MD.

She got a straight sets win over Alycia Parks (6-4/6-3) before falling to top seeded Aryna Sabalenka, but the 26-year old JPN #3 (#136, w/ a likely bump to a new career-high after I.W.) improves to 12-5 on the year.

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VETERANS: Sorana Cirstea/ROU

…having announced that she intends 2026 to be her final season on tour, Cirstea is appropriately playing like there’s no tomorrow.

Already with a title (in Cluj) this season, as well as a post-match AO dust-up with Naomi Osaka (“come on!”) under her belt, the veteran Romanian has posted victories in Indian Wells’ opening week over Tatjana Maria and Diana Shnaider, improving to 14-3 on the year (9-1 in her last 10).

Having never reached the Top 20 in her long stint on tour — she got as high as #21 more than a dozen years ago in 2013 and ’14, then #22 in 2024 — Cirstea’s trajectory would surely make the latest-ever Top 20 breakthrough (she turns 36 in a month) possible sometime this season. It’s enough to make one wonder, since a Pennetta-like close isn’t *likely*, if we could instead see a “redo” of Danielle Collins’ “retirement” season from a few years ago if things continue to trend in the right direction.

Cirstea fell in three sets to Linda Noskova in Sunday’s 3rd Round action.

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COMEBACKS: Anhelina Kalinina/UKR and Ashlyn Krueger/USA

…a former Top 25 player and Rome 1000 finalist just three years ago, Kalinina is on her way back after missing six months last season.

The Ukrainian won a 125 crown in December soon after her return, then qualified at AO26 and reached a second 125 final just last week in Antalya. In the second of back-to-back 125 events in Antalya, this week she took the title, running off wins over the likes of Elina Avanesyan, Panna Udvardy, Katarzyna Kawa and Oleksandra Oliynykova in a 6-3/3-6/6-2 final on Sunday.

The win lifts Kalinina back into the Top 150 in the “live” rankings.

Meanwhile, suddenly all is right with Ashlyn.

Heading into last week’s tournament in Austin, the Bannerette was on a 1-7 slide, having posted just two wins in thirteen matches since a 1st Round win at last summer’s U.S. Open. She’d dropped outside the Top 100 after being in the Top 30 just seven months earlier and finishing the ’25 season at #45. Then she played her way into the Austin semis, her best result since an Abu Dhabi RU early in 2025.

In Indian Wells, Krueger’s U.S. resurgence has continued with first week wins over Magda Linette and Liudmila Samsonova, the latter coming after Samsonova had led 6-3/5-3. She’s on her way back *up* the ranking ladder, with a “live” spot inside the Top 80.

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FRESH FACES: Talia Gibson/AUS and Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva/AND

…Gibson has been one of the early young movers of the season, shining at home Down Under with an AO MD win (def. Blinkova, then pushing Shnaider to three sets), a $75K title and SF run in a pair of Brisbane challengers and a $100K QF in India.

In Indian Wells, she made her way through qualifying (saving 2 MP vs. Elvina Kalieva) and then getting MD wins over Ann Li and Ekaterina Alexandrova. Gibson is set to crack the Top 100 for the first time when she exits this opening chapter of the 2026 Sunshine Swing, after ending last season at #136.

Gibson continued her run through Sunday, upsetting Clara Tauson in the 3rd Round to reach her first 1000 Round of 16 and improving to 16-5 this season.

After a qualifying-to-QF joint in Merida that enabled her Top 100 breakthrough on Monday, VJK continued her good vibes stretch into Indian Wells, qualifying again with back-to-back three-set wins over Lucrezia Stefanini (from a set down) and top Q-seed Katie Boulter (who led 6-2/3-1).

In the MD, the 20-year old Andorran clocked another three-set victory over Caty McNally in her I.W. debut (her second match win at the 1000 level) before falling to Naomi Osaka. Against the former tournament champion, Kasintseva had staged a comeback from 5-1 down in the 1st, denying Osaka as she served for the set, saving three SP on serve and then getting the break to knot the set at 5-5. But Osaka broke back on her third BP in the next game, and served out a 7-5 1st en route to a straight sets win.

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DOWN: Ekaterina Alexandrova/RUS

…Alexandrova finally cracked the Top 10 late last season, and has spent three weeks there over the course of 2026. But aside from her run to the final in Abu Dhabi, the veteran Hordette has had a difficult time finding success so far this season.

Her four match wins (three of which came in Abu Dhabi) are the lowest of any of the thirteen women who’ve touched the Top 10 in ’26, and she’s the only one without a winning record. Her fourth consecutive defeat came in Indian Wells at the hands of Talia Gibson, 6-3/7-5, that drops Alexandrova to 4-7 this year.

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ITF PLAYER: Hanne Vandewinkel/BEL

…the week’s $75K challengerin Trnava (SVK) featured a match-up of two of the hottest players in the sport who’ve been playing (mostly) just below tour-level.

Belgian Vandewinkel, 21, came into the tournament final on a 14-match winning streak, seeking her third straight ITF title after what had been a slow start (2-4) to her ’26 season back in January. She posted wins over Anouk Koevermans and Erika Andreeva in the QF/SF to reach her 18th career circut final (all in the last three and a half seasons).

Meanwhile, her 23-year old opponent, Daria Snigur arrived on 9-match winning streak, and was on a 14-1 run that started with her maiden WTA SF result in Cluj, and has since included a career-best 125 crown in Oeiras last month. The 2019 Wimbledon junior champ had dominated quite-good competition in such a small event, double-bageling Vendula Valdmannova, allowing one game vs. Valentina Ryser and handling Lucie Havlickova and Celine Naef (w/ 3 ’26 ITF titles) in straights.

The two were back-to-back in the “live” rankings heading into the title match, with the winner set to rise high enough to be breathing down the neck of her Top 100 debut following the match.

As it turned out, Vandewinkel’s 7-6/6-1 win over Snigur completed a no-sets-lost week for the Waffle, extending her streak to 15 wins in a row (she’s won 30 of 32 sets), and gives her a third ’26 title (with previous $75K and $100K wins, tying Naef for the season title lead). It’s the 12th ITF win of her career, a total which was topped last October with a career-best 125 crown.

Vandewinkel finds herself at a “live” #103 heading into the coming week.

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JUNIOR STAR: Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi/ARG

…a week after falling to Nauhany Vitoria Leme da Silva in the South American Regional Championships (J300) final in Santa Cruz (BOL), Larraya Guidi immediately bounces back to claim her biggest career junior crown, taking the J300 Ascuncion Bowl in Paraguay.

The #1 seed, the 18-year old Argentinian defeated Chile’s Camila Rodero in a three-set final.

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[IW Through 2nd Round]

1. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Jaqueline Cristian def. Maya Joint

…0-6/6-2/7-5. A wild 3rd set saw Cristian take a 4-2 lead, but see Joint surge ahead and hold three MP on the Romanian’s serve at 5-4. Cristian held the six-deuce game by converting her fifth GP chance, then broke the Aussie on the third BP of game 11.

She saved a pair of BP in what turned out to be the final game of the match, serving out the 7-5 decider. Well — cough, cough — after a bit of an eleventh-hour delay.

Whoosh, it’s a good thing *Iga* didn’t do this at such a late stage in a match…

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2. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Katerina Siniakova def. Leylah Fernandez

…5-7/6-4/7-6(1). At 3:28, this is the longest match on tour this season since the 3:31 Jacquemot/Kostyuk clash in the AO 1st Round, and it took two well-timed, big-time set closings from the Czech to prevail.

The two women combined to go 0-for-10 on BP opportunities in the 1st until Siniakova finally broke through to end the set, but it was Fernandez who came on strong to take the 2nd, erasing a 4-2 deficit and winning the final four games to knot the match.

The Canadian led 3-1 in the 3rd, but Siniakova weathered a game 8 storm to stay alive, saving four BP and holding for 4-4. When the match went to a deciding TB, it was the Czech who dominated to the tune of a 7-1 victory.

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3. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Camila Osorio def. Iva Jovic

…4-6/7-6(4)/6-3. Jovic seemed set to reach her first 3rd Round in the desert, taking the 1st and then hold an early break edge in the 2nd. She had three MP on serve at 5-4, but couldn’t close out the Colombian. Three BP in the following game came and went, as well, and Osorio forced a 3rd with a 7-4 tie-break win.

Osorio pulled away in the decider, improving to 12-2 since her 1st Round exit in Melbourne.

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4. Indian Wells 1st Rd. – Anastasia Potapova def. Marina Stakusic

…4-6/6-1/7-5. Things suddenly got serious for Potapova after the new Austrian led Stakusic 4-2 in the 3rd, as the Canadian surged to take a 5-4 lead and had three MP chances on serve.

Potapova got the break on her fourth BP, then held at love and broke Stakusic again (on MP #2) to advance.

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5. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Alex Eala def. Dayana Yastremska

…7-5/4-6/7-5. With her anticipated return to Miami on deck, Eala has brought her traveling road show to Indian Wells for the first time. Right out of the gate, the Filipina delivered (w/ a bit of help) in a late night thriller.

Still, Eala wasn’t able to serve out the 1st set vs. Yastemska, being unable to convert three SP at 5-3. But she broke the Ukrainian to take the stanza three games later.

Come the 3rd, Yastremska seized control late, getting the first break of the set for 5-4 and serving for the match a game later. But she couldn’t maintain any sort of control with the victory on the line. Yastremska was broken at 15, and two games later found herself trying to hold off Eala and force a TB. In what turned out to be a 17-point game, Yastremska held three GP, but four DF (two on GP) prevented her from securing the hold. After staving off three Eala MP, #4 proved to be too much.

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6. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Sonay Kartal def. Emma Navarro

…6-1/3-6/7-6(2). Navarro’s slide continues.

Already having just dropped out of the Top 20 following her one-and-done return trip to Merida as the defending champion, Navarro twice served for the match vs. Kartal (against whom she had a 2-0 h2h), and held a MP on the Brit’s serve at 6-5. But Kartal forced a TB and dominated it, handing Navarro her third straight loss and dropping her to 4-8 on the season.

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7. Indian Wells Q2 – Talie Gibson def. Elvina Kalieva

…4-6/7-5/6-3. The Aussie saves a pair of MP down 5-4 in the 2nd, sweeping the final four games of the set and going on to claim her MD spot.
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8. Indian Wells Q1 – Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva def. Katie Boulter

…2-6/7-5/6-2. The Andorran continues her good stretch, rallying from 6-2/3-1 down vs. #1 Q-seed Boulter (a champion in Ostrava last month) to win and set up her Indian Wells MD debut.
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9. Antalya 125 Final – Anhelina Kalinina def. Oleksandra Oliynykova

…6-3/3-6/6-2. It’s a bit of a surprise that this tournament actually finished, considering all the missiles and drones flying all over the region. Both the men’s and women’s ITF events this past week in Antalya were cancelled, as was the ATP challenger in the UAE.

Ironically, the final featured two players from war-torn Ukraine, for apparently the first time at any level of women’s pro tennis in quite a while.

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10. Indian Wells Q2 – Kamilla Rakhimova def. Maria Timofeeva

…4-6/5-4 ret. With Timofeeva’s retirement while still leading the match, Rakhimova wins for the second time in two career meetings between the two Hordettes, the first since both switched their nationality to Uzbekistan (Uzbekettes?). Rakhimova won their previous encounter in U.S. Open qualifying in 2024.
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11. Indian Wells 1st Rd. – Kamilla Rakhimova def. Bianca Andreescu

…6-7(6)/6-0/6-1. Andreescu found success on the ITF level to open her season (going 13-1), but her return to the WTA tour has so far produced no wins in 2026.

Having lost in three sets in the 1st Round in Austin, the ’19 I.W. winner battled to take the 1st set vs. Rakhimova, saving five SP before winning an 8-6 tie-break. But then she won just one *game* in the final two sets.

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12. Indian Wells 1st Rd. – Zeynep Sonmez def. McCartney Kessler

…7-6(7)/6-0. Another tournament, another Turkish first, as Sonmez adds “first Turkish woman with a MD win at Indian Wells” to her growing list of accomplishments.

She also gave a completely unexpected answer to a rather mundane query…

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13. $50K Helsinki FIN Final – Noma Noha Akugue def. Gao Xinyu

…4-0 ret. The 22-year old German, who busted through to the Hamburg final in her WTA MD debut three summers ago, continues her build back, picking up her second ’26 challenger win (in three finals) to assure her return to the Top 200.
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14. $35K Heraklion GRE Final – Ane Mintegi del Olmo def. Darya Astakhova

…6-1 ret. The bespectacled Spaniard, the Wimbledon girls’ champ in ’21, picks up her fifth career ITF crown.

Mintegi del Olmo missed quite a bit of time with injuries, but began to return to form last year, winning three ITF titles. This is her first this year (improving her mark to 44-16 since her return), and it’ll allow her to crack the Top 300 for the first time in the next rankings.

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[IW Through 2nd Round]

1. Indian Wells 1st Rd. – Diane Parry def. Venus Williams

…6-3/6-7(4)/6-1. Another wild card, another happy group of fans (and tournament organizer), and another loss for Venus. That’s 0-5 in 2026, with a career-long eight-match losing streak.

This one, which made her 8-38 in the 2020s, came in a now-familiar three-set affair, thirty years after her Indian Wells debut in 1996 (a loss as a qualifier vs. Julie Halard-Decugis).

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2. Indian Wells 2nd Rd. – Mirra Andreeva def. Solana Sierra

…6-0/6-0. So far, so good — to say the least — for the defending champion.

As for the rest, go forward at your own risk…

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3. Indian Wells 1st Rd. – Mirra Andreeva/Victoria Mboko def. Elise Mertens/Zhang Shuai

…6-4/4-6 [10-8]. And so the growing Andreeva/Mboko link — already with an Adelaide final and 3rd set TB in Doha on the ledger in ’26 — deepens.

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So… players’ personal information may have leaked from the tour’s database, something which the players were apparently not told about. Meanwhile, players are being threatened, with stolen personal information being in the mix.

One could be surprised… but then that notion ends the moment the thought of the WTA being entrusted to protect its own players comes to mind. I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner considering the longtime reign of the “Asleep-at-the-Switch Gang.”


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Oh, dear Tennis Gods, no. The last thing we need are best-of-five women’s matches in majors. We don’t really need best-of-five men’s matches (save, maybe, for the final), for that matter.

Best-of-three is the perfectly-timed format for a sport fighting to keep anyone’s attention and/or attract a few more eyes. But in a time when all other sports are smartly finding way to *speed up* their product to fight against dwindling attention spans and too-long time commitments, leave it to an influential individual in tennis to propose something that would make the sport *less likely* to hold and/or attract an audience.

Tennis… forever its own most problematic opponent.


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Oh, Jana…

Had a lot of fun turning back the pages of time, literally, to what women’s tennis wanted itself to look like in the 1980s.

We talk about the tennis calendar all the time; this time it’s different.

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“Even the Losers (Get Lucky Sometimes)” – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers



Wk.9- The Road to (Indian) Wells-ville


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If Iga Swiatek were part of something other than the WTA, someone might use this as a prelude to some sort of Clark Kent reference but, well, you know.

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*INDIAN WELLS FACTS 1989-present*
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[recent finals]
2018 Naomi Osaka def. Dasha Kasatkina
2019 Bianca Andreescu def. Angelique Kerber
2020 DNP
2021 Paula Badosa def. Victoria Azarenka
2022 Iga Swiatek def. Maria Sakkari
2023 Elena Rybakina def. Aryna Sabalenka
2024 Iga Swiatek def. Maria Sakkari
2025 Mirra Andreeva def. Aryna Sabalenka
[Most Singles Titles]
2 – Victoria Azarenka, BLR
2 – Kim Clijsters, BEL
2 – Lindsay Davenport, USA
2 – Mary Joe Fernandez, USA
2 – Steffi Graf, GER
2 – Daniela Hantuchova, SVK
2 – Martina Navratilova, USA
2 – Maria Sharapova, RUS
2 – Iga Swiatek, POL
2 – Serena Williams, USA
[Consecutive Titles]
2 – Martina Navratilova (1990-91)
[Most Finals]
6 – Lindsay Davenport (2-4)
3 – Victoria Azarenka (2-1)
3 – Steffi Graf (2-1)
3 – Maria Sharapova (2-1)
3 – Serena Williams (2-1)
3 – Martina Hingis (1-2)
3 – Caroline Wozniacki (1-2)
3 – Svetlana Kuznetseva (0-3)
2 – Kim Clijsters (2-0)
2 – Mary Joe Fernandez (2-0)
2 – Daniela Hantuchova (2-0)
2 – Martina Navratilova (2-0)
2 – Iga Swiatek (2-0)
2 – Ana Ivanovic (1-1)
2 – Jelena Jankovic (1-1)
2 – Monica Seles (1-1)
2 – Amanda Coetzer (0-2)
2 – Aryna Sabalenka (0-2)
2 – Maria Sakkari (0-2)
[Consecutive Finals]
3 – Lindsay Davenport (2003-05)
2 – Martina Navratilova (1990-91)
2 – Monica Seles (1991-92)
2 – Amanda Coetzer (1993-94)
2 – Lindsay Davenport (1997-98)
2 – Svetlana Kuznetsova (2007-08)
2 – Ana Ivanovic (2008-09)
2 – Caroline Wozniacki (2010-11)
2 – Maria Sharapova (2012-13)
[Consecutive Match Wins]
10 – Martina Navratilova (1990-91)
10 – Ana Ivanovic (2008-09)
10 – Iga Swiatek (2022-23)
10 – Iga Swiatek (2024-25)
[Unseeded Singles Champions]
1999 Serena Williams, USA
2005 Kim Clijsters, BEL
2018 Naomi Osaka, JPN
2019 Bianca Andreescu, CAN (WC)
[Youngest Singles Champions]
17y,166d – Martina Hingis (1998)
17y,169d – Serena Williams (1999)
17y,321d – Mirra Andreeva (2025)
18y,90d – Monica Seles (1992)
18y,274d – Bianca Andreescu (2019)
[Youngest Singles Finalists]
17y,91d – Monica Seles, 1991
17y,166d – Martina Hingis, 1998 (W)
17y,169d – Serena Williams, 1999 (W)
17y,283d – Kim Clijsters, 2001
17y,321d – Mirra Andreeva, 2025 (W)
[Oldest Singles Champions]
36 – Martina Navratilova (1991)
35 – Martina Navratilova (1990)
32 – Flavia Pennetta (2014)
[9/35 Champions Have Won No Slam Titles]
1989 Manuela Maleeva, BUL
1993 Mary Joe Fernandez, USA
1995 Mary Joe Fernandez, USA (2)
2002 Daniela Hantuchova, SVK
2007 Daniela Hantuchova, SVK (2)
2009 Vera Zvonareva, RUS
2010 Jelena Jankovic, SRB
2017 Elena Vesnina, RUS
2021 Paula Badosa, ESP
2025 Mirra Andreeva, RUS
[6 Champions Have Never Reached Slam Finals]
1989 Manuela Maleeva, BUL
2002 Daniela Hantuchova, SVK
2007 Daniela Hantuchova, SVK
2017 Elena Vesnina, RUS
2021 Paula Badosa, ESP
2025 Mirra Andreeva, RUS
[Only 10 Finalists Have Never Reached a Slam Final]
1989 Manuela Maleeva (best slam: SF)
1989 Jenny Byrne (3rd)
1997 Irina Spirlea (SF)
1993/94 Amanda Coetzer (SF)
2002/07 Daniela Hantuchova (SF)
2018 Dasha Kasatkina (SF)
2021 Paula Badosa (SF)
2022 Maria Sakkari (SF)
2024 Maria Sakkari (SF)
2025 Mirra Andreeva (SF)
[Only 1 Finalist Has Never Reached a Slam SF]
1989 Jenny Byrne (3rd)
=DOUBLES=
[recent champions]
2018 Hsieh Su-wei/Barbora Strycova
2019 Elise Mertens/Aryna Sabalenka
2020 DNP
2021 Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens
2022 Xu Yifan/Yang Zhaoxuan
2023 Barbora Krejcikova/Katerina Siniakova
2024 Hsieh Su-wei/Elise Mertens
2025 Asia Muhammad/Demi Schuurs
[Most Titles]
7 – Lisa Raymond, USA
6 – Lindsay Davenport, USA
4 – Hsieh Su-wei, TPE
3 – Martina Hingis, SUI
3 – Elise Mertens, BEL
3 – Elena Vesnina, RUS
2 – Sania Mirza, IND
2 – Virginia Ruano Pascual, ESP
2 – Samantha Stosur, AUS
2 – Rennae Stubbs, AUS
2 – Paola Suarez, ARG
2 – Helena Sukova, CZE
2 – Natasha Zvereva, BLR
[Most Titles – duos]
2 – Davenport/Raymond, USA/USA
2 – Davenport/Zvereva, USA/BLR
2 – Hsieh/Mertens, TPE/BEL
2 – Ruano Pascual/Suarez, ESP/ARG
2 – Raymond/Stosur, USA/AUS
[Consecutive Titles]
1994-95 Raymond/Davenport, USA/USA
1997-98 Davenport/Zvereva, USA/BLR
2002-03 Lisa Raymond, USA
2004-05 Ruano Pascual/Suarez, ESP/ARG
2006-07 Raymond/Stosur, USA/AUS
[MX Champions]
2024 Storm Hunter/Matthew Ebden
2025 Sara Errani/Andrea Vavassori

*2026 TOP JUNIOR EVENT CHAMPIONS*

USTA Winter Nationals (San Antonio): Kenzie Nguyen/USA
NEW DELHI IND J300: Ekaterina Dotsenko/RUS
TRARALGON AUS J300: Xinran Sun/CHN
SAN JOSE CRC (Coffee Bowl) J300: Janae Preston/USA
BARRANQUILLA COL J300: Olivia Traynor/USA
AUSTRALIAN OPEN: Ksenia Efremova/FRA
SALINAS ECU J300: Janae Preston/USA
CASABLANCA MAR J300: Adelina Lacinova/LAT
LIMA PER J300 (INKA BOWL): Janae Preston/USA
SANTA CRUZ BOL J300 (S.A. Regional Chsp.): Nauhany Vitoria Leme da Silva/BRA
NONTHABURI THA J300: Lin Yu Jun/CHN
ASUNCION PAR J300 (ASUNCION BOWL): Sol Ailin Larraya Guidi/ARG

Wk.9- The Road to (Indian) Wells-ville

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What the freaking Jim Jones cult bs is this ish?!

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— imaginaryghfan.bsky.social (@imaginaryghfan.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 2:32 AM


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The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

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— Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) March 3, 2026 at 8:07 PM


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It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 7, 2026 at 5:17 PM


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I don’t know about you, but I’m really tired of the dumbest and cruelest people running this country and wreaking havoc across the globe.

— Max Weiss (@maxthegirl.bsky.social) March 6, 2026 at 12:18 PM


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All for now.

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