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- 6d ago
Errani and Paolini win Tokyo doubles title and qualify for WTA Finals
The Italian pair beat Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-2, 6-2 in one hour, claiming their tenth title together and their first in over a year.
- Oct 26
Maja Chwalińska withdraws from WTA 500 Tokyo with thigh injury, coach cites elbow
Maja Chwalińska has withdrawn from the WTA 500 tournament in Tokyo, weeks after winning her first WTA 1000 title in Wuhan. The official reason is a left thigh injury, but her coach says the real problem is her elbow.
- Oct 22
Katarzyna Kawa beats Belinda Bencic in Ningbo, reaches quarterfinal against Rybakina
Ranked 128th before the tournament, Kawa won 7:5, 6:2 in the Ningbo round of 16 and will face world No. 1 Jelena Rybakina in the quarterfinal on Friday, 23 October.
- Oct 20
Iga Świątek ends 2026 season early, out of WTA Finals after thigh injury
Iga Świątek has ended her 2026 season, citing a left thigh problem that also cost her a place at the WTA Finals in Indian Wells. She won one title this year, the WTA 1000 event in Toronto, and now sits ninth in the WTA Race.
- Oct 16
Maja Chwalińska wins first WTA title in Wuhan and climbs to 11th in rankings
Poland's Maja Chwalińska beat Britain's Sonay Kartal 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 in the Wuhan final on Sunday, 18 October 2026. The win lifted her from 22nd to 11th in the WTA rankings, her career best.
- Oct 14
Aryna Sabalenka loses to Ann Li in three sets at the Wuhan WTA 1000
Ann Li needed ten match points to finish off the win, sending the highest-seeded player out of the Wuhan draw on 14 October. Iga Świątek and Maja Chwalińska both advanced the same day.
- Oct 13
Chwalińska meets Sherif in Wuhan, seeking a second-round place after two straight losses
Maja Chwalińska, ranked 22nd by the WTA, faces Sherif, ranked 52nd, in Wuhan singles. The winner meets Marie Bouzkova, ranked 28th, in the next round, while Chwalińska and Nikola Bartunkova also play doubles.
- Oct 6
Elise Mertens defeats Coco Gauff in straight sets at China Open following online abuse
Elise Mertens beat Coco Gauff 6-3, 6-3 in Beijing to reach her first China Open quarter-final, two days after Gauff faced online racist abuse over a disputed point.
- Oct 1
Francisco Roig backs Iga Świątek to regain world No. 1 ranking ahead of Beijing return
Coach Francisco Roig stated that Iga Świątek has the attributes to return to world No. 1 and win Grand Slams as she enters the WTA 1000 China Open in Beijing.
- Sep 22
Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi sets women's Rubik's Cube world record with 4.27-second average
Chinese speedcuber Lian Yunzhi broke the women's 3x3x3 record twice in three days across tournaments in Wuhan and Guangzhou after memorizing over 1,300 algorithms.
- Aug 29
Alessandro Di Battista prepares private medical return to Italy after hospitalization in Cuba
Former Five Star Movement lawmaker Alessandro Di Battista is scheduled to return to Rome via private air ambulance on Thursday after collapsing with severe head pain in Cuba.
- Aug 20
Chinese court sentences Evergrande founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison
The Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced China Evergrande Group founder Hui Ka Yan to life in prison and imposed $2.35 billion in corporate fines over large-scale financial fraud.
- Jul 29
Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment more than 100 times as Senate Republicans press COVID lab-leak theory
Anthony Fauci appeared before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday and invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, as Republicans pressed the lab-leak theory of COVID-19's origins and Senator Rand Paul threatened a contempt vote next week.
