One game away from defeat, Leylah Fernandez battled all the way back to win a 3-hour and 12-minute, three-tiebreak epic over Elena Rybakina in the Mubadala Citi DC Open semifinals. In the final, she will meet Anna Kalinskaya,

Venus Williams’ comeback is headed to the U.S. Open next month. She will enter the redesigned mixed doubles tournament with Reilly Opelka via a wild-card entry.

Leylah Fernandez finished an impressive week with a dominant performance against Anna Kalinskaya to win the WTA 500 title in Washington D.C.

After a splendid semifinal run at the DC Open, British tennis star Emma Raducanu has been touted as one of the players to watch out for in the lead up to the 2025 US Open by retired compatriot Anne Keothavong.

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, the best match point of 2025 descended into chaos, the WTA Tour showed off its depth and the temptations of tennis parallels returned.

WASHINGTON — Venus Williams took the Mubadala Citi DC Open by storm.

Emma Raducanu's deep Washington run came with a solid reward as the British tennis player gained 13 spots on the updated WTA rankings and now sits at No. 33 in the world.

Emma Raducanu has reached the semifinals at the D.C. Open by eliminating Maria Sakkari 6-4, 7-5. Friday's win put Raducanu in the final four at the biggest tournament where she’s made it that far since her surprising 2021 U.

Naomi Osaka has parted company with coach Patrick Mouratoglou less than a year after the pair began working together, the four-times Grand Slam champion said days after her defeat to Emma Raducanu at the Washington Open.