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.
Mboko saved a match point against Kazakh ninth seed Rybakina in front of adoring home support
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.
Fifth seed Iga Swiatek stages revival to stay in hunt for 4th French crown.
List of Wimbledon women's singles champions after Iga Swiatek beat Amanda Anisimova in the final on Saturday:
Amanda Anisimova of the United States won the Qatar Open for her third career title and first since 2022.
The former world number one, who won nine Grand Slam singles titles, retired from professional tennis at the age of 34.
'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.'
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.
Monica Seles has recently confessed that she battled with binge eating disorder after getting stabbed on court in 1993.
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.
The former world No. 1 staved off a fightback from qualifier Lina Krasnoroutskaya to make the grade.
Former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic has withdrawn from the grasscourt grand slam with a knee injury, organisers said on Sunday.\n\n
Iga Swiatek cemented her position as the undisputed queen of clay
IMAGES from the Women's Singles Final of the French Open at Roland Garros in Paris on Saturday.
Can Iga Swiatek challenge Rafael Nadal's French Open record?
Following Iga Swiatek's victory over Coco Gauff in the final, here's a list of French Open women's singles champions:
Bollettieri founded the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in 1978. It was bought by the International Management Group in 1987.
Images from the women's singles final at the French Open, in Paris, on Saturday.
* Swiatek started playing tennis in an attempt to emulate her older sister, who competed briefly on the junior circuit.
Serena Williams' career has been so astonishing that it could fuel umpteen movies
'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.
The dinner Jill Biden and her husband US President Joe Biden hosted for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, June 22, at the White House brought together, Indians and Americans from so many firmaments.
Here is a list of US Open women's singles champions since the open era began in 1968:
More major trophies surely await if she can convert her irresistible hardcourt form to French Open clay and grass at Wimbledon.
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.
Nick Kyrgios needs to improve his fitness to have a chance of winning Grand Slams, former world number one Jim Courier said on Wednesday.
Carrying her hardcourt success to the French Open and the Wimbledon was the 'biggest goal' going forward for Osaka.
Osaka was fined $15,000 for skipping her news conference after her first round win and was warned of possible expulsion from Roland Garros
Factbox on Iga Swiatek, who defeated Sofia Kenin to win her maiden Grand Slam title at the French Open on Saturday.
List of Australian Open women's singles champions since the event began in 1922 (Australian unless stated):
The Air Force official from Nagaland had gone to Coimbatore in the first week of October from Mohanbari Air Force Base in Dibrugarh district of Assam to participate in a 21-day training course at the IAF administrative college in the textile city of western Tamil Nadu.
Bianca Andreescu is the first Canadian to win a major in the professional era.
Penpix of the top women's contenders at the 2021 French Open which begins on Sunday
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