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2025 Italian Open – Women's Singles
Jasmine Paolini defeated Coco Gauff in the final, 6–4, 6–2 to win the women's singles tennis title at the 2025 Italian Open. It was her second WTA 1000 and third career WTA Tour singles title. Paolini was the second Italian woman in the History of tennis#Open Era, Open Era to win the Italian Open (tennis), Italian Open singles title, after Raffaella Reggi in 1985 Italian Open – Women's singles, 1985. The final was also a rematch of the 2024 Italian Open – Women's doubles, doubles final from the previous year. Paolini was the first Italian woman to win both the singles and doubles titles at the tournament in the same year since Reggi in 1985, and the first woman to do so overall since Monica Seles in 1990 Italian Open (tennis), 1990. Iga Świątek was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Danielle Collins. Gauff was the seventh and youngest woman to reach the finals of both 2025 Mutua Madrid Open – Women's singles, Madrid and Rome in the same year. Peyto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Paolini
Jasmine Paolini (; born 4 January 1996) is an Italian professional tennis player. She is ranked world No. 4 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), the joint-highest-ranked Italian woman in singles (alongside Francesca Schiavone). She is a Grand Slam (tennis), Grand Slam champion in doubles at the 2025 French Open – Women's doubles, 2025 French Open, partnering compatriot Sara Errani. Representing her country, Paolini won an Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, Olympic gold medal in doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with Errani. Paolini has won three WTA Tour-level singles titles and nine in doubles, including two singles and four doubles WTA 1000 titles. Paolini is also a three-time major runner-up, contesting the 2024 French Open – Women's singles, singles and 2024 French Open – Women's doubles, doubles finals of the 2024 French Open and the 2024 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, singles final of the 2024 Wimbledon Championship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiebreaker
In games and sport, a tiebreaker or tiebreak is any method used to determine a winner or to rank participants when there is a tie - meaning two or more parties have achieved a same score or result. A tiebreaker provides the additional criterion or set of criteria to distinguish between the tied participants and establish a clear ranking or winner. In some sports, it is known as a countback. General operation In matches In some situations, the tiebreaker may consist of another round of play. For example, if contestants are tied at the end of a quiz game, they each might be asked one or more extra questions, and whoever correctly answers the most from that extra set is the winner. In many sports, teams that are tied at the end of a match compete in an additional period of play called " overtime" or "extra time". The extra round may also not follow the regular format, e.g. a tiebreak in tennis or a penalty shootout in association football. In the '' Super Smash Bros.'' series of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Shnaider
Diana Maximovna Shnaider (, ; born 2 April 2004) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high rankings of world No. 11 in singles and No. 9 in doubles, achieved in May 2025. Shnaider won women's doubles silver at the 2024 Paris Olympics with partner Mirra Andreeva. Early life Shnaider was born in Zhigulevsk to father Maxim and mother Yulia. Her father is a lawyer and former boxer of German descent, while her mother is an English teacher. Her family later moved to Tolyatti. She began playing tennis at the age of four. At the age of eight, she began pursuing the sport seriously, training with coach Samvel Minasyan in Moscow. In 2022, she moved to the United States and enrolled at North Carolina State University, where she played college tennis for the NC State Wolfpack. Shnaider's signature on-court look features a blue polka-dot bandana. She began wearing headscarves as a child to prevent sunburn, preferring them over caps and visors. Junior career She won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karolína Muchová
Karolína Muchová (; born 21 August 1996) is a Czech professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 8, achieved on 11 September 2023. Muchová has won one WTA Tour title at the 2019 Korea Open – Singles, 2019 Korea Open, and contested a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major final at the 2023 French Open – Women's singles, 2023 French Open. Muchová turned professional in 2013. She first rose to prominence at the 2018 US Open – Women's singles, 2018 US Open, defeating world No. 12 and two-time major champion, Garbiñe Muguruza, in the second round. The following year, Muchová reached her first major quarterfinal at 2019 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, Wimbledon by upsetting world No. 3, Karolína Plíšková. At the 2021 Australian Open – Women's singles, 2021 Australian Open, she reached the semifinals by defeating world No. 1 and home favorite, Ashleigh Barty. At the 2023 French Open, she reached her first maj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Rybakina
Elena Andreyevna Rybakina (born 17 June 1999) is a Russian-born Kazakhstani professional tennis player. She has been WTA rankings, ranked world No. 3 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association, WTA, making her the first Kazakhstani to be ranked in the world's top 10 and the current Kazakhstani No. 1. Rybakina is the first player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam (tennis)#Tournaments, major claiming the 2022 Wimbledon Championships – Women's singles, 2022 Wimbledon Championships. She has won nine WTA Tour-level singles titles, including two WTA 1000 tournaments, WTA 1000 events at the 2023 BNP Paribas Open – Women's singles, 2023 Indian Wells Open and the 2023 Italian Open – Women's singles, 2023 Italian Open. As a junior, Rybakina reached a career-high junior ranking of No. 3. Born and playing as a Russian, she switched federations to Kazakhstan in June 2018, having just entered the world's top 200. Her first consistent success on the WTA Tour came in mid-201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Navarro
Emma Navarro (born May 18, 2001) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 by the WTA, achieved on September 9, 2024 and a best doubles ranking of No. 93, set in 2024. Navarro has won two singles titles on the WTA Tour, and reached a major semifinal at the 2024 US Open. Navarro played college tennis at the University of Virginia and won the NCAA Singles Championship in 2021, later becoming the first women's singles NCAA champion to reach the US Open semifinals. She won her first WTA Tour title at the 2024 Hobart International in Hobart, Australia. Career 2019: WTA Tour debut Navarro finished as the runner-up in the junior 2019 French Open singles draw, and won the junior 2019 French Open in doubles playing with Chloe Beck. They also finished as runners-up in the junior 2019 Australian Open. Navarro made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2019 Charleston Open in South Carolina, after receiving a wildcard for the sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Badosa
Paula Badosa Gibert () (born 15 November 1997) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 2 in singles by the WTA and No. 124 in doubles, achieved on 25 April 2022. She has won four WTA Tour singles titles, including a WTA 1000 event in Indian Wells, and reached a major semifinal at the 2025 Australian Open. As a junior, Badosa was ranked as high as No. 8 in the world and was the 2015 French Open junior champion. As a professional, she broke into the top 100 in 2019. The next year, a fourth round berth at the French Open brought her into the top 70. Badosa made new strides in 2021 after a breakthrough clay swing when she won her first career title in Belgrade. She entered the top ten following a WTA 1000 title at Indian Wells, and peaked at world No. 2 in early 2022. Subsequent injury struggles led Badosa dropping out of the world's top 100 in early 2024 before resurging in the latter half of the season, returning to the top 15 and bei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zheng Qinwen
Zheng Qinwen ( zh, , p=Zhèng Qīnwén, s=郑钦文; IPA: ; born 8 October 2002) is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has been ranked world No. 4 in women's singles by the WTA, achieved in June 2025, and is only the second Chinese player to reach the top 10 after Li Na. Zheng has won five career singles titles, including the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, becoming the first Asian tennis player to win an Olympic gold medal in singles. Zheng won her first WTA Tour tournament in 2023 at the Palermo Ladies Open, successfully defending the title the following year. In total, she has won five WTA Tour titles, one WTA Challenger title, and eight ITF singles titles, and was named the 2022 WTA Newcomer of the Year and the 2023 WTA Most Improved Player of the Year. She contested a major final at the 2024 Australian Open. Early life and junior years Zheng was born in Shiyan, Hubei. Until the age of three, she spent time in her maternal grandmother's home in Chen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirra Andreeva
Mirra Aleksandrovna Andreeva (born on 29 April 2007) is a Russian professional tennis player. She has been ranked as high as world No. 6 in singles, achieved on 17 March 2025, and No. 18 in doubles, reached on 31 March 2025. Andreeva has won three WTA Tour singles titles, including two WTA 1000 events, and achieved her best major result at the 2024 French Open by reaching the semifinals at the age of 17. She also won an Olympic silver medal 2024 in Paris in women's doubles, partnering Diana Shnaider. Career Juniors Andreeva began playing tennis at the age of six. She is a former world No. 1 junior, a position she reached on May 29, 2023. She was a finalist at the Australian Open girls' final in 2023, losing to Alina Korneeva in three sets. Their final match took 3 hours and 18 minutes, which was 22 minutes longer than the men's final. In April 2023, Andreeva became the only player in the history of the ITF World Tennis Tour to win multiple titles at the W60 level or above bef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Pegula
Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has career-high rankings in singles of world No. 3, achieved October 2022, and in doubles of world No. 1, set on 11 September 2023. Pegula reached the singles finals of the 2024 US Open and the 2023 WTA Finals. In doubles, she reached the final of the 2022 French Open, partnering with Coco Gauff, and the mixed doubles final of the 2023 US Open with Austin Krajicek. Pegula has won eight singles titles and seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, including three WTA 1000 titles in singles and two in doubles. She is also a seven-time major singles quarterfinalist, having reached this stage at all four majors: thrice at the Australian Open (2021–2023), twice at the US Open (2022, 2024), and once each at the French Open (2022) and Wimbledon (2023). In 2023, Pegula led the United States team to victory in the inaugural United Cup. Early life Pegula was born February 24, 1994 in Buffalo, New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aryna Sabalenka
Aryna Siarhiejeŭna Sabalenka (born 5 May 1998) is a Belarusian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), and is a former world No. 1 in women's doubles. Sabalenka has won 20 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including three majors at the 2023 Australian Open, 2024 Australian Open, and 2024 US Open, as well as nine WTA 1000 events. She has also won six doubles titles, including two majors at the 2019 US Open and 2021 Australian Open, both partnering with Elise Mertens. Sabalenka came to prominence in 2017 when, together with Aliaksandra Sasnovich, they led the Belarus Fed Cup team to a runner-up finish even though both were ranked outside the top 75 at the time. She finished 2018 and 2019 ranked No. 11 in the world in singles. Following two major singles semifinal appearances in 2021, Sabalenka rose to the world No. 2 ranking but struggled to maintain that success in 2022 consistently ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glossary Of Tennis Terms
This page is a glossary of tennis terminology. A * Ace: Serve where the tennis ball lands inside the '' service box'' and is not touched by the receiver; thus, a shot that is both a serve and a winner is an ace. Aces are usually powerful and generally land on or near one of the corners at the back of the service box. Initially, the term was used to indicate the scoring of a point. * Action: Synonym of '' spin''. * Ad court: Left side of the court of each player, so called because the ''ad'' (''advantage'') point immediately following a deuce is always served to this side of the court. * Ad in: '' Advantage'' to the '' server''. * Ad out: '' Advantage'' to the '' receiver''. * Ad: Used by the chair umpire to announce the score when a player has the '' advantage'', meaning they won the point immediately after a '' deuce''. See scoring in tennis. * Advantage set: Set won by a player or team having won at least six games with a two-game advantage over the opponent (as opposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
