Barty leads 2021 WTA Tour award winners
WORLD number one Ash Barty has won her second WTA Player of the Year award in three years, after being voted in as the Tour’s top player for the 2021 season. International media representatives voted on the various WTA Player Awards, which recognise the standout performers from the season. WTA Player of the Year: Ash […]
WTA pulls tournaments from China and Hong Kong
THE WTA has taken the extraordinary step in pulling all of its tournaments out of China and Hong Kong, in response to the continuing saga surrounding Chinese star Shuai Peng. China was due to be the host of several tournaments in 2022, including the WTA Tour Finals. This move is in response to the continuing […]
2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch: Amanda Anisimova
NEXT up in our 2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch series is Amanda Anisimova. After an emotionally affected few years, 2022 might be the year she returns to the form she showed in 2019. If you look back to the 2019 season, Anisimova was on the rise in the tennis world. She won her first […]
2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch: Marta Kostyuk
UKRAINIAN teenager Marta Kostyuk snuck into the WTA Tour’s Top 50 last month, reaching her career-high ranking after a memorable season. The European young gun has been a name that has kept popping up over the last few seasons as a prodigy, so it would be easy to forget that she is only 19-years-old. Starting […]
2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch: Ann Li
AMERICAN Ann Li is next up in our 2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch, after having an impressive 2021 season which featured her maiden title at the recent Tenerife Ladies Open. She finished with a 25-14 win-loss record and claimed her WTA 250 title with a straight sets win over Maria Camila Osorio Serrano. >> […]
2022 WTA Tour Players to Watch: Maria Camila Osorio Serrano
COLOMBIAN teenager Maria Camila Osorio Serrano kicks off our WTA Tour Players to Watch count for 2022, after the 19-year-old broke through for her maiden title his year. Recording a 35-17 win-loss record, Osorio Serrano reached a career-high 53rd, and was 55th by year’s end. Five years ago aged 14, Osorio Serrano began her WTA […]
Top 5 WTA Tour nations for 2021
ONE continued powerhouse, two nations with great depth, and a couple that are held up by top-end stars, Rookie Me Central presents five WTA Tour nations that impressed with overall titles in 2021. The five included won four or more singles titles in 2021. #1 United States Total Top 100 Singles Players: 162021 Singles Titles: […]
Tennis Australia confirms Aussie summer swing
TENNIS Australia has confirmed the tournaments for the upcoming Australian summer swing for both the ATP and WTA Tours. In an email sent out to the players, Tennis Australia announced that tournaments will be played in Adelaide and Sydney, as well as non-stop action in Melbourne. TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE ATP TOUR Adelaide International ATP Cup Melbourne […]
2021 WTA Memorable Moments
THERE was no shortage of memorable moments on the WTA Tour, so Rookie Me Central has named a handful of results that stuck out in 2021. Ons Jabeur becomes first Arab in Top 10 In the first of many remarkable historic moments, Ons Jabeur becoming the first Arab tennis player – male or female – […]
What’s left on the WTA Tour run home?
FOR all intents and purposes, the WTA Tour season is now over. The WTA Finals have been run and won, and the Billie Jean King Cup marked the last event for many of the world’s top players. Mid-November has traditionally been the close of business for many Top 100 players – and indeed the majority […]
