The 2025 Japan Open is set to take place at the Utsubo Tennis Center in Osaka, Japan from October 13-19, as the Asian swing approaches its conclusion. A WTA 250 event, the Japan Open became a ...
Naomi Osaka did not earn her first career grass court WTA title on Saturday. Instead, she retired midmatch with a right foot injury. She took a medical time out in the first set. Her movement seemed ...
At just 18 years old, Victoria Mboko didn’t just win her first Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Tour title on Friday; she claimed a place in tennis history and the hearts of fans worldwide. The ...
When an 18-year-old WTA wildcard topples a four-time Grand Slam champion, it’s the kind of headline that lights up the tennis world. But when Billie Jean King, one of the sport’s most iconic figures, ...
The Omnium Banque Nationale final is set: Victoria Mboko and Naomi Osaka will face each other for the first time. Here's everything you need to know about the showdown. On Thursday (6 p.m. ET), ...
Naomi Osaka is rolling once more. Twenty months into her tennis comeback after giving birth to her first child, Osaka is back where she wants to be, playing in the finals of a big-time tournament, ...
Victoria Mboko’s run through one of the most important competitions in women’s tennis ended where it inevitably — and impossibly — seemed like it might all along. And what a place she chose to do it.
Naomi Osaka defeated Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals of the Bad Homburg Open, moving within one win of her first career grass-court final. The victory gave Osaka her first ...
Looking at the field in Riyadh, it’s clear that resilience was the under-the-radar theme on tour this season. “Wide open.” “Chaotic.” “Anything can happen.” Once upon a time, early in this decade, ...
In the 2025 Canadian Open women’s final, two unseeded players will face off for that WTA 1000 title: 18-year-old rising tennis star Victoria Mboko, and four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka. Mboko ...
For defending US Open champion and world number one Aryna Sabalenka, 2025 had been a productive yet frustrating year—two losses in Slam finals, another in the semis, all of them three-set defeats at ...