Naomi Osaka, Steffi Graf, and Serena Williams made the cut on the 26-player list of best WTA players ever from A to Z.

Belinda Bencic wins her first title since giving birth last year - and now she is part of an A-list cast of champions.

Former world number 4 Bencic celebrated the arrival of her first child, Bella, in April before making her comeback at the end ...

Graf is also one of only two players in history to win the career Silver Slam as she has finished runner-up at all four ...

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Getty Images Much-loved Aussie icon Evonne Goolagong Cawley was a familiar presence at Melbourne Park from beginning to end of the first Slam of the year. The indigenous trailblazer and former WTA ...

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Tim Henman insists there is “zero appetite” for Wimbledon to start on a Sunday despite the other three Grand Slams all aligning on their start day. The US Open announced this week that the ...

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Serena has won the Australian Open seven times (2003, 2005, 2007, 2009-2010, 2015, 2017). Margaret Court (1969-1971), Evonne Goolagong (1974-1976), Steffi Graf (1988-1990), Monica Seles (1991-1993), ...

The only woman to do that previously in a major was Australian Evonne Goolagong Cawley, who did it in 1980 at Wimbledon. On the way to the championship, Keys also had to win five matches in three sets ...

Keys is the fourth woman to beat four top-10 seeds on route to a slam in the Open Era, joining Evonne Goolagong (Wimbledon 1980), Mary Pierce (Australian Open 1995) and Li Na (French Open 2011).