Cincy QFs so far. I'll take it :)

With the #USOpen approaching, active players who could build on their tally of multiple major final meetings. 3 - Djokovic v Medvedev.2 - Wawrinka v Djokovic.2 - Djokovic v Tsitsipas.2 - Alcaraz v Djokovic.2 - Alcaraz v Sinner.2 - Gauff v Sabalenka.

Most Grand Slam final meetings between same two players in Open era: . 14 - Navratilova v Evert.9 - Nadal v Federer.9 - Nadal v Djokovic.9 - Serena v Venus.7 - Djokovic v Murray.7 - Graf v Sanchez Vicario.6 - Graf v Navratilova.6 - Graf v Seles.

Christian and @CasperRuud98 are our guests on this week's episode of The Sit-Down!. LISTEN: Said Casper: "The ultimate goal and the final goal for my career is of course maybe to lift a trophy at a Slam one day.".

RT @AustralianOpen: Big Rafa fan 🫶. This week on The Sit-Down: Christian and Casper Ruud unpack how the Big Three helped shape Casper’s cli….

RT @OptaAce: 17 - Aryna Sabalenka has won 17 WTA-level tie breaks in 2025, it is the highest tally in a single entire calendar year during….

Mboko and Osaka have both risen inside the WTA top 25 after reaching the Montreal final, ensuring both should be seeded for the US Open. World No.25 is Osaka's highest ranking since January 2022.

By reaching the AO 2002 QF, Venus had built a 24-match win streak, winning 48 of her past 50 sets. Seles entered the match-up 0-6 vs Williams, and 0-5 in her past five major QFs. Yet she turned back the clock.

Into the final set of the Montreal final. > Osaka seeking her first WTA 1000 title since 2019, 6 years ago.> Mboko seeking to become first local Canadian Open winner since Andreescu, also in 2019

And now with Osaka getting a performance bye, it's apparently a 94-player draw. So which two players got squeezed out?.

Osaka v Ostapenko for a place in the 4R of the Canadian Open in Montreal, which makes me think back to this quote from the 2019 WTA Finals. This is just their 2nd meeting since then, and 3rd ever.

The Gauff-Sabalenka RG 2025 final was not only significant for being a 1v2 final…. It was the first time that a major final rematch had been set since Wimbledon 2018 (Kerber-Serena). It ended an Open-era record of 25 straight major finals featuring one-time match-ups.

Now this is a fun little throwback plotline developing…

And certainly never imagined Swiatek would break her 13-month title drought at Wimbledon, in that manner. - closes tournament with a triple-bagel.- a flawless 6-0 in Grand Slam finals .- completes the Surface Slam.- targets career Slam at AO2026.

Swiatek overtook Goolagong in 10th place on the women’s Open-era list for the highest Slam win %. Just ahead of her, in 9th place? Henin, whom Swiatek would very nearly equal should she beat Anisimova in the #Wimbledon final.

Sinner v Alcaraz, meanwhile, feels like Federer v Nadal but for entirely the opposite reason — they’re now meeting in multiple major finals.

The trio will collect a 13th straight major title between them after Alcaraz and Sinner’s progression to the #Wimbledon final. More specifically, it will be the 7th consecutive major title for ‘Sincaraz’ dating back to AO 2024 — continuing their great Slam duopoly.

Anisimova after the 2019 RG SF: "I played Junior Wimbledon one time and I lost 13-11 in the 3rd set or something. Everyone tells me my game suits grass but that time I didn't leave thinking that. Hopefully with a bit more practice and getting used to it then maybe I can do well.".

Sabalenka v Swiatek in a major final feels like Federer v Nadal at the US Open — so close to happening multiple times, yet never realised. RG 2023.Sabalenka loses after mp in SF. AO 2025.Swiatek loses after mp in SF. Wimby 2025.Sabalenka loses in SF from break up in 3rd set.

By advancing to her first Wimbledon SF, Swiatek has. > reached 3 straight major SF for the first time.> risen to #2 in the WTA live race.> improved to 8-1 on grass, her most wins on the surface in one season.> completed her set of Slam semifinals.