Garbine Muguruza, Sloane Stephens advance with straight-set victories at French Open
Former champion Garbine Muguruza and last year's runner-up Sloane Stephens both posted straight-set wins Wednesday to reach the third round of the French Open. On a sunny morning in the French capital, Muguruza beat Johanna Larsson 6-4, 6-1 on Court Suzanne Lenglen. Seeded 19th this year, ...
Wimbledon champion Angelique Kerber of Germany will play in September's Toray Pan Pacific Open, organizers announced Friday. Kerber, currently ranked fourth in the world, will be joined by two other former world No. 1 players, Karolina Pliskova of the Czech Republic and Spain's Garbine Muguruza. ...
Defending women's champion Garbine Muguruza booked a place in the second round with a 6-2, 7-5 victory on Tuesday over British wildcard Naomi Broady at Wimbledon. The two-time Grand Slam champion needed 88 minutes to see off world No. 138 Broady on Centre Court. "I'm back, ...
Rafael Nadal, Garbine Muguruza named ITF players of the year
Rafael Nadal and Garbine Muguruza on Friday won the International Tennis Federation's player of the year awards. Nadal won a 10th French Open and a third U.S. Open this year. The 31-year-old Spaniard is the oldest player to finish the year at No. 1 since ...
Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza is the WTA Player of the Year, and U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens has been honored as the Comeback Player of the Year. The WTA announced the annual honors on Friday. The awards are voted on by members of the media. Other ...
Caroline Wozniacki ended Garbine Muguruza's honeymoon as world No. 1 in clinical fashion with a 6-2, 6-0 win on Saturday to book her place in the Toray Pan Pacific Open final against unseeded Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. Wimbledon champion Muguruza went into this week's tournament in ...
Muguruza reveling in No. 1 status ahead of Pan Pacific Open
Reigning Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza on Monday did not hold back her joy at becoming world No. 1 in women's tennis. The 23-year-old last week topped the WTA rankings for the first time, becoming the second woman from Spain to achieve the feat, after four-time ...
As a kid, Garbine Muguruza sat in awe in front of the TV as the Williams sisters accumulated Grand Slam titles. They were her role models. Now Muguruza is all grown up, an emerging tennis star in her own right — and, as of Saturday, ...
Osaka bests Sasnovich, advances to semifinals
Rising teenage star Naomi Osaka reached her first-ever semifinal on the WTA Tour after conquering her demons in a 6-3, 7-6 (8-6) win over Belarusian qualifier Aliaksandra Sasnovich at the Pan Pacific Open on Friday. Eighteen-year-old Osaka, who toppled world No. 12 Dominika Cibulkova in ...
World No. 3 Muguruza ready to 'put everything on barbecue' at Pan Pacific Open
Spain's world No. 3 Garbine Muguruza is relishing the prospect of getting revenge on Anastasija Sevatsova at the Pan Pacific Open and vowed on Monday to put "everything on the barbecue" for the final swing of the WTA Tour. As the top seed, French Open ...
Muguruza wins French Open, denying Williams 22nd major title
The day before the French Open final, Serena Williams' coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, was discussing whether his player would need to lift her level to beat Garbine Muguruza and collect a record-equaling 22nd Grand Slam title. "I don't know why everybody's so impressed with Garbine," Mouratoglou ...
Garbine Muguruza continued her dream debut at the WTA Finals by completing round- robin play with a perfect 3-0 record to advance to the semifinals after a hard-fought 6-4. 4-6 ,7-5 victory over Petra Kvitova on Friday. By topping the White Group, the Spaniard set ...
