If you didn't know where Hangzhou was (the city is in China, of course), you might assume it is somewhere in Russia. After all, the later we push into the 2026 Hangzhou Open, the more Russian players are making their poi...
Jannik Sinner has officially withdrawn from the China Open, an ATP 500 event that the current ATP No. 1 won last year. He has missed every tournament since Wimbledon with a knee injury and has only played in one since th...
Alex Eala learned something about her second-round opponent at the 2026 Singapore Open, and that was that while Tatiana Prozorova was just starting to find her footing on the WTA Tour, she had the power in her groundstro...
Alexander Zverev entered 2026 as the best player of his generation to never win a Grand Slam. By the end of the year, he will have won two: the French Open and the US Open. The former didn't include Carlos Alcaraz, and t...
Most of 2025 and 2026 have been a struggle for Maria Sakkari. She reached the final of the Athens Open, but has mostly been bounced out in the opening round or second round of tournaments. She faced the same potential fa...
Heading into the first-round match of the Singapore Open between Barbora Krejcikova and Anna-Lena Friedsam, one might assume that the Czech player would sweep through easily. After all, Krejcikova had won multiple single...
The China Open gets underway on September 30, and it is an important event that could help shape the year-end rankings. The problem is that many players fans might want to watch have already said they can't be there.That...
Alexander Zverev has had the most successful 2026 of any player on the ATP Tour. He entered this year with no Grand Slam wins and will leave with two major titles. That includes the US Open, where he managed to annoy man...
Jack Draper simply needs a break, but the question is how long his body forces him to be away from tennis. The 24-year-old Brit has called it a season, about a month before his 2026 season would have ended anyway. Will h...
Alex Eala, the current WTA No. 18, suffered too soon a fate at the US Open, losing in the third round to Iva Jovic. Since then, the Filipina and the rest of the tennis world have been watching how the major unfolded and ...
Newly crowned U.S. Open champion Elena Rybakina is also the newly crowned No. 1 player in the WTA rankings. Rybakina was assured of ending Aryna Sabalenka’s 99-week reign at No. 1 once she reached the U.S. Open semifinal...
Alexander Zverev might prove that the best ability is availability – at least when it comes to finishing 2026 as the ATP’s year-end No. 1 player. This was further proven by Zverev winning the U.S. Open in a Jannik Sinner...
Alexander Zverev, a player who earlier in 2026 was the best player never to win a major, has now won his second of the year by defeating Ben Shelton in the final of the US Open. The German was simply the better player in...
Alexander Zverev has a good opportunity to ruin a good party at the end of the 2026 US Open. The German could steal the men's final from Ben Shelton and make sure there is no American men's champion for the first time si...
Tennis fans knew going into the 2026 US Open women's final between Elena Rybakina and Aryna Sabalenka that the match was likely going to be an elite example of the sport. The players didn't disappoint, and Rybakina won i...
Ben Shelton will take on Alexander Zverev in the men's US Open final on Sunday, September 12, and there is one question many tennis fans are asking: Can an American win in New York for the first time in decades? In essen...
Alexander Zverev should be feeling very little stress after finally winning his first major at the 2026 French Open. Should he win the US Open too, well, that's just gravy. He certainly wasn't going to let Karen Khachano...
The 2026 US Open final is set on the women's side. Fittingly, the two players who have had the most successful seasons will face off, even though they will soon change positions atop the rankings on the WTA Tour. Elena R...
The semifinals on the men's side of the 2026 US Open will take place on Friday, September 11, and an American man is guaranteed to make the final. That is because Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton will face one another in o...
The US Open is coming to a close this weekend, and what a tournament it has been. On the women's side, for instance, Zheng Qinwen has now been pushed out of the tournament, but during her run had back-to-back comebacks f...
On the WTA Tour, every two years recently, a player has won two majors. Iga Swiatek did it in 2022, and Aryna Sabalenka accomplished the feat in 2024. Mirra Andreeva had a chance to do it in 2026, but in the quietest way...
Elena Rybakina had much more to gain in her quarterfinal match at the US Open than simply winning a match against Zheng Qinwen. If the Kazakhstani were to win, she would guarantee herself the top spot in the WTA rankings...
Ben Shelton defeated Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals of the 2026 US Open on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. The crossover between days was part of what made the match memorable, but why many people likely missed...
Of all the American hopefuls at the 2026 US Open, few likely thought it would be Alex Michelsen that stated the strongest claim to maybe win the title, becoming the first American man since Andy Roddick in 2003 to do so....
Aryna Sabalenka was facing an interesting quandary. While trying to claim her third straight US Open title, she was also likely to lose her ranking atop the WTA Tour. Should Elena Rybakina reach the semifinals -- and she...
