Murray on women’s tennis: “There’s a lot of be excited about” Judy Murray, former British Fed Cup captain who now works in the WTA community tennis space, believes women’s tennis is re-entering a period of global recognition and popularity.

“There are players coming through now who look like they will go on to dominate for a number of years and win an awful lot of major tournaments. You need players at the top of the game who are winning consistently because then they become recognisable."
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Fantastic to be joined by Judy Murray on The Sit-Down this week, covering her start in the game, building tennis infrastructure in Scotland, the rise of her sons Andy and Jamie, the current state of the women's game -- plus more, which you can listen to here:
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In Sabalenka v Anisimova, the US Open 2025 women's final features another first-time Slam final meeting.

This has happened in 27 of the past 28 major finals dating back to the Serena v Osaka 2018 US final.

The only Slam final rematch in that span was Sabalenka-Gauff at RG 2025.

Enjoyed working on this one — Sinner and Alcaraz could become the first duo in the Open Era to meet in more than two Grand Slam men’s singles finals in the same season.

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Has been fun writing as part of the usopen.org team for the first time :)

Fan Week in the books — main draw tomorrow🎾

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Casper Ruud: “I really still believe Alcaraz and Sinner are catchable” Three-time major finalist Casper Ruud, a guest on this week’s episode of The Sit-Down, has Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner in sight as he targets his next career goal.

Christian and Casper Ruud are our guests on this week's episode of The Sit-Down podcast :)

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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."
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With the US Open 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 major 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

AO Flashback: Seles vanquishes Venus in last great run Monica Seles scored her first and only victory in 10 meetings against Venus Williams in the Australian Open 2002 quarterfinals – her final significant win at Melbourne Park.

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, a performance we revisit on ausopen.com.
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