Women’s tennis season review: The best WTA matches, players and moments of 2025
As tennis prepares for the 2026 season — which is, for once, starting in the year for which it is named — here is a spirited lookback at the past year on the WTA Tour. It is not designed to be entirely complete, and your views on the categories in the speed run at the bottom are one of the most exciting things about such an exercise. This is in the spirit of what first springs to mind, in a banner year for women’s tennis that set up the next one beautifully. Best match Charlie Eccleshare, Matthe
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When Billie Jean beat Bobby - the Battle of the Sexes that defined an era
ELIZABETHTOWN — Though sports such as tennis and pickleball retreat to indoor arenas during the cold blasts of winter, there are hearty souls who don heavy jackets, tuques, as well as mittens or gloves and continue playing platform tennis outdoors. It is not uncommon to hold “shoveling parties” after a heavy storm when members meet with shovels and brooms to clear the court. The “platform” is ...
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Jack Draper withdraws from Australian Open due to lingering arm injury
Tenth-ranked Draper not ready to return for Australian Open
Jack Draper, who has played just one tennis match since Wimbledon because of injury, will not be fit for next month’s Australian Open. The 10th-ranked Draper's 2025 season was prematurely curtailed by bone bruising in his left arm. “Unfortunately, me and my team have decided not to head out to Australia this year," the 24-year-old British player said in a video on X on Friday.
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