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Former World No. 25 Yaroslava Shvedova has announced her retirement from professional tennis. In a short ceremony at the inaugural WTA Astana Open on Friday, the 34-year-old bid farewell to her home crowd, bringing the curtain down to a career spanning nearly two decades. Shvedova’s only title in singles came at the Bangalore Open in […] READ MORE
Day 2 of tennis at the Tokyo Olympics is Sunday (in Tokyo; late Friday night in the United States), and we’re here to share our thoughts on every match. Players fight for ranking points and national glory, and the Olympics almost always brings out the best in athletes. Monica Puig won this tournament in 2016, […] READ MORE
It’s a fantastic line-up on Wednesday on the WTA side of the 2021 Italian Open in Rome. World No. 1 Ashleigh Barty will face a two-time Roland Garros quarterfinalist Yaroslava Shvedova, who’s coming back from a pregnancy and injury hiatus. Who do you think will make the third round? In addition to this article, we […] READ MORE
The WTA Madrid tournament on clay, one of the highlights of the 2021 WTA Tour season begins with Day 1 action featuring the likes of Ash Barty, Ons Jabeur and Belinda Bencic. We preview and predict four matches in this article. We also have the rest of the day’s matches split between three other articles. […] READ MORE
Day 1 of the WTA Volvo Car Open in Charleston, South Carolina kicks off on Monday. This 64-player tournament is the biggest annual event on clay in the United States. Plenty of Americans will be searching for glory, as will the rest of the tour. There are 14 matches on Monday, and we predict all […] READ MORE
The Miami Open is well and truly underway. While the lack of crowds continues to be noticeable, it is still a treat having regular tennis back in our lives. The men’s side of the tournament has suffered from several big name withdrawals. However, the women’s field has had no such problems, with the very best […] READ MORE
There will be plenty of intriguing matches on Day 2 of the WTA Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. As always at LWOT, we will predict all 17 matches on the slate for Monday, including Garbine Muguruza vs Irina-Camelia Begu, Fiona Ferro vs Elise Mertens and Angelique Kerber vs Caroline Garcia. But who will advance? WTA […] READ MORE
There looks set to be plenty of entertaining tennis on day one at the Australian Open, with 29 first-round matches on the slate. As ever, we at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match, including Kirsten Flipkens vs Venus Williams, Naomi Osaka vs Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Aryna Sabalenka vs Viktoria Kuzmova, Bianca Andreescu vs […] READ MORE
The first tournament of 2021, the Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s Tennis Open, saw first round action Wednesday. A strong field is assembled for this WTA 500 tournament, led by top seed Sofia Kenin. As ever, we here at LWOT will be offering our predictions for every match on the slate on day two, including Tamara […] READ MORE
Day three in Paris will feature a mouthwatering clash between Ashleigh Barty and Madison Keys as well as current Race to Singapore leader Elina Svitolina. Our panel of Sam Barker, Jakub Bobro and Niall Clarke are on hand to offer their previews and predictions. [5] Elina Svitolina vs. Yaroslava Shvedova Embed from Getty Images Sam: Elina Svitolina is […] READ MORE