Svitolina closed the match with an unreturned serve, a shot that had long been considered her weakest point. And that to beat a fellow champion in Rome, the best server in the circuit.

Bad 🦐🌮season toxic fumes dissipate, if only for a moment, and we desperately needed that bit of fresh air.

And now it's Rublev's turn to do the honourable. There's so much goddamn trash in the ATP

Darderi, you beauty. I wasn't watching (I don't watch that other guy), but what a delicious scoreline: 1-6, 7¹²-6¹⁰, 6-0 🫳🗑️

1 - Dino Prizmic is now the first qualifier and the lowest-ranked (#79) player to claim a comeback win over Novak Djokovic at an ATP Masters 1000 event. Doppelganger. #IBI26

#WTA #tennis

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On Emma Raducanu's prolonged post-viral symptoms, via @thesicktimes.org: thesicktimes.org/2026/04/28/p...

Reminds me of when Maria Sharapova put a countdown clock on her website which turned out to be for her announcement of her doping ban. No one did it like her

She was asked this question.

TL united in joy at Sabalenka stacking it, I love you all 🥹

Not just fearless but powerful, precise, and inventive. She's a dream to watch in this kind of form

Love the fearless tennis that Hailey Baptiste is playing

😙👌 (Here's the clip, if you missed it www.youtube.com/shorts/eNVnl... )

the unexpected intersection of climate change and tennis court surface! spoke to two geoscientists doing fascinating work defector.com/how-much-goo...

Late to this episode but really glad I caught up. It has great discussion of the Vondrousova case, among other bits (If you want a difficult book, try Finnegans Wake 🙈)

This is a grim picture, and I don't think the betting companies or the tours are doing all they can to protect players from abuse or worse

Muchova's skill at the net on full display here as she deftly turns an awkward "Oh, Elena doesn't want a hug" moment into a pleasant back-pat and joke #WTA

Commentators saying Muchova is getting lucky with net cords as if she isn't doing it on purpose

Muchova not doing a whole lot wrong but struggling to stay with Rybakina, whose power, placement and shot choice are consistently reliable and putting her under constant pressure #WTA

Some nice match-ups here Muchova vs Rybakina could be 🔥🔥. H2H is 2-1 Muchova, most recently a close 3-set win in Brisbane QF in January

Rybakina is slicing and drop-shotting now. It's truly over for everybody.

backhand volley dropshot at full stretch to save a break point? np Muchova into the Stuttgart final, woooo!

Marky Vondroušová is facing a doping ban for refusing to let the anti doping agency person into her home without an ID (allegedly). Whatever happened I hope Marky will be ok 😢

"I'm just so happy that I finally, finally beat her" Muchova clearly relieved after a first win in 7 attempts against Gauff. Sorry to see Coco go out, but thrilled for Karo

But good luck trying to see half of it with this maddening pan-and-scan sideways-letterbox-ass phone view 😩

Rafa saw his clay child struggling and said no more, let me be the father that stepped up (I’m not sure how the Roig partnership works out tbh, but vamos/jazda/godspeed or wtv)

Right: my loves 🧡

Swiatek has hired Francisco Roig. Good luck to them! www.bbc.com/sport/tennis... #WTA

Tell me what company you keep and I'll tell you what you are

Sinner pulls off the elusive Sunshine Double Taking Out The Trash Trophy! ☀️ ☀️ 🗑️🏆

Seems a good time to recommend Tested, Rose Eveleth's podcast about the ugly history of sex testing in women's sport www.tested-podcast.com/listen/

From Daniel Kaplan's great newsletter on sport law - Lesia Tsurenko's lawsuit against the WTA has been dismissed substack.com/@danielkapla...

Some exquisite shotmaking in this Rybakina vs Pegula match #WTA

And not just the wheels but the reaction speed and the touch 🥵

🎾 #Tennis #MiamiOpen Another terrific point won by Coco. Coco Gauff defeats Belinda Bencic after being taken to the cleaners in the 2nd Set. A remarkable comeback.

Did Foki's racquet fall? Yes: violently

Oh, Iga 😞 Wim's days are probably numbered, but a lot of the current rut seems psychological, no? So I'd be hoping to see someone else go, but that particular option doesn't seem open

Aaaaaaagghhhh my eye! My eye!! 😱

As fun as that match was, I really do need Coco and Iga to fix up their games. I cannot be having power tennis win everything this season, they must be stopped 🥲

I've missed peak Medvedev, and I honestly didn't think I'd see it again

5 - Iga Swiatek has lost five consecutive meetings against top-10 opponents for the first time in her career. Stopped. #TennisParadise | @wtatour.bsky.social

Iga Swiatek just called Karolina Muchova 'the women's Roger' 👌

ANOTHER comeback win for Siniakova 🥳 Even her expression after losing the first set seemed to say, Yeah, enjoy it while you can I had to leave this one halfway through; great news to wake up to

1 - Since the Tier format's introduction in 1990, Katerina Siniakova is the first player to defeat multiple reigning Tier I/WTA-1000 champions while ranked outside the WTA top 40 – Wuhan 2018, Indian Wells 2026. Scalps. #TennisParadise | @wtatour.bsky.social

Beloveds we have gotta block The Tennis Letter that account is garbage and they do awful work Also get the fk off x what the hell are you doing on there still?

Astounding couple of rallies here. Pity about the Alcaraz comparison – it's not inaccurate, just unnecessary #WTA