WTA News & Gossip 2023

[the AntiPusher]

Venus Williams, will not be ready in time for the AO in 2024, still recovering from an sustained injury from Wimbledon, but plans to make a comeback on home soil in Spring, in time for the North American tournaments IW and Miami.

There are break up rumors that Naomi Osaka is a single mum, her recent instagram captions hint that she and her BF and baby daddy Cordae are going through a rough patch or have broken up ( Osaka's instagram account no longer features any pictures of the pair together).
Osaka currently on maternity leave is planning to return to the WTA Tour in January 2024.

Angie Kerber has confirmed she will represent Germany in the United Cup December 29- Jan 7th 2024, alongside Alexander Zverev. then she will head to play in the WTA500 Adelaide International Jan 8-13 2024.

Interesting updates thanks MM

 

[the AntiPusher]

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Doubles field is set at WTA Finals, Cancun, as Siegemund and Zvonareva capture Jianxi Open title ( they pipped Fernandez/Townsend for 8th place with their title, Townsend used as a alternative for Cancun)

Gauff/Pegula
Hunter/Mertens
Krejcikova/Siniakova
Schuurs/Krawczyk
Shuko/Shibahara
Dabrowski/Routliffe
Molichar-Martinez/Perez
Siegemund/Zvonareva

Miss Drama Z is still winning titles good for her..

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

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Miss Drama Z is still winning titles good for her

LOL! Miss Drama Z and her doubles partner Siegemund made the Doubles final 8 at the WTA in Cancun

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Madison Keys has pulled out of the NKJ Cup,
So the line up for the USA is,
Sloane Stephens, Danielle Collins, Sofia Kenin, Taylor Townsend and Peyten Stearns

 

[Kieran]

Maternity leave? They’re self employed, no? The article is behind a paywall so I didn’t see an explanation for that…

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Naomi Osaka has reunited the team at the helm before she stepped away 2 years ago. In addidtion to rehiring coach Wim Fissette, Osaka also brought back preformance coach German, Florian Zitzelsberger, who overseas all apsects of her health and fitness

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

Maternity leave? They’re self employed, no? The article is behind a paywall so I didn’t see an explanation for that…

The issues can be found here in this ESPN article: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/38798264/iga-swiatek-players-united-seeking-changes-wta

The WTA really dropped the ball on the fall schedule and WTA Finals in 2022 and 2023. The funny thing is that they had it perfect in the first half of the 1990s. The fall schedule has gotten progressively worse since Virginia Slims stopped being the sponsor (except for 2020 and 2021). If the WTA does not want to put on meaningful tournaments during the fall, then they should just put the WTA Finals following the US Open in September, and let October be the offseason month. As it is, having the WTA Finals in November interferes with the BJK Cup. I can't believe the WTA allowed itself to squander the opportunity to capitalize off the momentum of Coco Gauff's US Open.

 

[Kieran]

The issues can be found here in this ESPN article: https://www.espn.com/tennis/story/_/id/38798264/iga-swiatek-players-united-seeking-changes-wta

The WTA really dropped the ball on the fall schedule and WTA Finals in 2022 and 2023. The funny thing is that they had it perfect in the first half of the 1990s. The fall schedule has gotten progressively worse since Virginia Slims stopped being the sponsor (except for 2020 and 2021). If the WTA does not want to put on meaningful tournaments during the fall, then they should just put the WTA Finals following the US Open in September, and let October be the offseason month. As it is, having the WTA Finals in November interferes with the BJK Cup. I can't believe the WTA allowed itself to squander the opportunity to capitalize off the momentum of Coco Gauff's US Open.

Interesting read, thanks! Still not sure what moves the WTA can make regarding income and maternity leave, but the issues of scheduling and sponsorship have certainly cast a shadow over their year end event..

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Some happy baby news!

Belinda Bencic shares news on her instagram page she is pregnant with long time boy friend Martin Hromkovic!

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Some serious prize money being handed out at the Billie Jean King Cup Finals this year.
Winners will receive $2.4 million per team
Runners Up will receive $1.44 million per team
SF will receive $960,000
Group stage teams will receive $480,000

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

WTA Singles Rankings, Year End,

1. Iga Swiatek 9,295 points
2. Aryna Sabalennka 9,050 points
3. Coco Gauff 6,580 points
4. Elena Rybakina 6,365 points
5.Jess Pegula 5,975 points
6. Marketa Vondrousova 4,214 points
7. Ons Jabeur 4,195 points
8. Karolina Muchova 3,663 points
9. Maria Sakkari 3,620 points
10. Barbora Krejcikova 2,880 points

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

New career highs on WTA Top 100 Monday 6th November
14. Zheng
41. Navarro
46. M.Andreeva
69. Korpatsch
91 Bektas

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Billie Jean King Cup,
November 7-12,
The 12 teams have been broken into 4 round-robin groups.The top team from each group will advance to a semi-final knockout round.

Group A Switzerland, Czechia, USA
Group B Australia, Kazakhstan, Slovenic
Group C Spain,Canada,Poland
Group D France,Italy,Germany

 

[the AntiPusher]

Poor Taylor and the blonde banshee is getting humbled by the superior players from the Czech team.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Poor Taylor and the blonde banshee is getting humbled by the superior players from the Czech team.

I got home from work 1/2 an hour ago and have been watching the doubles, I am not surprised Czech team on their day are hard to beat, also why did Collins play doubles tie? I dont remember her as a doubles player,
That means Czech advance to the SFs

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

The player who was clutch so far in BJK Cup has been Leylah Fernandez, Canada into the SFs of the BJK Cup for the first time in over 30 years

 

[the AntiPusher]

I got home from work 1/2 an hour ago and have been watching the doubles, I am not surprised Czech team on their day are hard to beat, also why did Collins play doubles tie? I dont remember her as a doubles player

IDK but Shanda said that Collins had been playing more doubles. Well today at the net she had hands of stone at times but they lost as a team. Taylor's left handed service was not working meaning she couldn't pull the Czechs off the court.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

IDK but Shanda said that Collins had been playing more doubles. Well today at the net she had hands of stone at times but they lost as a team. Taylor's left service was not working meaning she couldn't pull the Czechs off the court.

Thanks, oh well USO out as Czech has made the SFs, the Czech team at the net were far too good for team USA in the doubles

 

[the AntiPusher]

Thanks, oh well USO out as Czech has made the SFs, the Czech team at the net were far too good for team USA in the doubles

Very true It would've taken Taylor and Miss Lil Bit or A Parks to defeat the talented Czech team