Tennis legend Monica Seles on Tuesday revealed that she was diagnosed with myasthenia gravis -- a neuromuscular autoimmune disease -- three years ago.
Elena Rybakina put on a brilliant performance to defeat favourite Aryna Sabalenka 64, 46, 64 and lift her first Australian Open trophy.
Iga Swiatek, who beat American 13th seed Amanda Anisimova 6-0, 6-0 in the Wimbledon final on Saturday to win her sixth Grand Slam title.
Poland's Iga Swiatek could become only the third woman since tennis turned professional in 1968 to win all of her first six major finals, joining Margaret Court and Monica Seles, but Swiatek is not taking the big-hitting Anisimova lightly.
Mboko saved a match point against Kazakh ninth seed Rybakina in front of adoring home support
Fifth seed Iga Swiatek stages revival to stay in hunt for 4th French crown.
Amanda Anisimova of the United States won the Qatar Open for her third career title and first since 2022.
List of Wimbledon women's singles champions after Iga Swiatek beat Amanda Anisimova in the final on Saturday:
'Although one-in-five women in the UK will experience stalking at some point in their lives, there are no scientific studies around the stalking of athletes.'
Aryna Sabalenka will battle American 19th seed Madison Keys in the final on Saturday looking to become the first woman since Martina Hingis from 1997-99 to win the Australian Open title three times in a row.
Iga Swiatek cemented her position as the undisputed queen of clay
Can Iga Swiatek challenge Rafael Nadal's French Open record?
IMAGES from the Women's Singles Final of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
Images from the women's singles final at the French Open, in Paris, on Saturday.
Monica Seles has recently confessed that she battled with binge eating disorder after getting stabbed on court in 1993.
List of leading women's grand slam singles title winners in the professional era after Serena Williams surpassed Steffi Graf by winning the Australian Open on Saturday.
Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1978. It was bought by the International Management Group in 1987.
'Neither I nor members of my team have symptoms of coronavirus. We carry out tests regularly. We will quarantine ourselves in accordance with current procedures'
Swiatek's last defeat on clay came in the WTA 1000 event in Madrid against Australian Barty, who elected not to defend her 2019 French Open title last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* Swiatek started playing tennis in an attempt to emulate her older sister, who competed briefly on the junior circuit.
More major trophies surely await if she can convert her irresistible hardcourt form to French Open clay and grass at Wimbledon.
Facts and figures from the women's competition at the French Open, which begins from May 25.
Former world number one Monica Seles was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame along with three other players during ceremonies on Saturday. Seles, now 35, won nine Grand Slam singles titles in the 1990s, including four Australian and three French opens. She was world number one for 178 weeks non-consecutively and ended 1991 and '92 as the top-ranked player.
Carrying her hardcourt success to the French Open and the Wimbledon was the 'biggest goal' going forward for Osaka.
The former world number one, who won nine Grand Slam singles titles, retired from professional tennis at the age of 34.
Serena Williams' career has been so astonishing that it could fuel umpteen movies
The world number one crushed Serbia's Ana Ivanovic 6-1, 6-2 in the women's final.
The former world number one beat Aravane Rezai of France 6-2, 6-2 in the final of the Auckland Classic.
Ana Ivanovic beat the Russian 6-2, 6-1 the enter the French Open final.
Bianca Andreescu is the first Canadian to win a major in the professional era.
Osaka was fined $15,000 for skipping her news conference after her first round win and was warned of possible expulsion from Roland Garros
'Climbing up a ranking seems to be easier than stabilising a position in the top-20,' says teen tennis sensation Ana Ivanovic.
The Swiss re-entered the upper echelon of women's tennis at number 14 after winning the Italian Open
List of French Open women's singles champions
Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic has withdrawn from the grasscourt grand slam with a knee injury, organisers said on Sunday.\n\n
Tennis coach Gavin Hopper was found guilty of charges relating to a teenage girl who attended a school where he taught.
Factbox on Iga Swiatek, who defeated Sofia Kenin to win her maiden Grand Slam title at the French Open on Saturday.
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