Tennis

[tiger_one]

Maya’s on fire!

Maya Joint is through to the Seoul semi-finals after earning the best win of her career by ranking against world No.12

Clara Tauson.

Moves to career-high No.36 in the live rankings

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Maya is believing more and more.

Have been mentioning her a few times over last few years. Last 18mths she has moved from being ranked outside the top 1000 and just continues to sky rocket to potentially finish the season in the top 30. Already had a few top 20 and 10 ranking wins.

Plays the best player in the world next up will be a great test for her.

Exciting to see her success.

 

[tiger_one]

On top of

Dane Sweeny’s 6th ITF pro singles title since June that we posted on the weekend, a further trio of Aussies have saluted with a

19 year old

Taylah Preston def

Katie Swan 6-4, 7-6 to win the ITF W35 Wagga Wagga

- her 5th pro singles title. A 9-1 fortnight in the NSW country town after losing the final to Swan a week ago

20 year old

Steffi Webb 6-0, 6-3 def

Iveta Dapkute to win the ITF W15 Heraklion

title - her 2nd pro singles

Pat Harper /

Johannus Monday 6-4, 6-3 def

Goldhoff /

Winegar to claim the ATP Challenger Columbus

doubles title. 2nd CH doubles title this year and third of career for Harper.

 

[tiger_one]

Rewarded for her semi-final effort at the WTA 500 Seoul event,

Maya Joint has achieved a new career-high ranking of No.36

It's quite surreal to think that she played the majority of her matches at ITF level while studying at Texas University only last year!

 

[tiger_one]

Priscilla Hon earns her first WTA 1000 main draw victory in Beijing

, coming from behind to earn a 1-6, 6-3, 7-6(4) win.

Now 8 wins from her last 9 matches, following on from New York.

Inside the live WTA top-100 for the first time!

 

[tiger_one]

Maya Joint notches up her fifth WTA 1000 win for 2025 def

Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva (Q) 6-3, 6-2 - China Open R1.

 

[tiger_one]

Aleksandar Vukic (Q) powers into the ATP 500 Japan Open

R16 def

Damir Dzumhur 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.

 

[tiger_one]

Ajla Tomljanovic has sensationally fought her way back from 0-4 down and 5-6 down in the first set of her opening round match at the WTA 1000 China Open against

Yuliia Starodubtseva to win 7-6(1), 6-2.

 

[tiger_one]

BREAKTHROUGH

At 29,

Aleks Vukic (Q) reaches his first ATP 500 Quarter Final and ninth of his career def

Daniel Altmaier 6-4, 6-2 Tokyo

R16

4th top 50 win in 2025.

Altmaier falls to 2-11 vs

on tour.

+16 rankings spots gained this week to 79 Live for ‘Vuk’

 

[tiger_one]

9th win in 10 starts, B2B 1000 wins,

Priscilla Hon (Q) is seizing the moment at the China Open

 

[tiger_one]

Alex de Minaur (3) has ticked

at the ATP 500 China Open in Beijing def

Yunchaokete Bu (WC) 6-4, 6-0 - R32.

10 aces

(32) most hardcourt wins of any player this year

(43) most 500 level wins of any player since the start of 2023.

46-17 W/L 2025

 

[tiger_one]

Joint closing in further

19 year old

Maya Joint records another big WTA 1000 win def 17th seed Diana Shnaider 7-5, 6-1 - R64 China Open

-Live ‘34’ in the rankings as possible year end Aussie No.1 female player looms.

 

[tiger_one]

Jannik Sinner underlined his dominance on hardcourts in the Asian swing of tournaments by outlasting Australian third seed Alex de Minaur 6-3 4-6 6-2

https://www.atptour.com/en/news/sinner-de-minaur-beijing-2025-tuesday

 

[tiger_one]

A big win for improving world No.874

Cruz Hewitt at Perth’s ITF M25 today, defeating world No.530

Jake Delaney 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.

 

[tiger_one]

Roland Garros confirms they will still use line judges in 2026.
They're the only Grand Slam to not implement electronic line calling.

 

[tiger_one]

Sweeny bound for another

???

Dane Sweeny (1) is through to the semi finals of the ITF M25 Perth

def

Enzo Aguiard (WC) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4

13th win in a row

43-5 since 18th June on the ITF Tour.

From 571 to closer to 200 if he can secure a 7th trophy in 4 and a half months

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

A big win for improving world No.874

Cruz Hewitt at Perth’s ITF M25 today, defeating world No.530

Jake Delaney 6-4, 6-4 in the first round.



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Lost to Tai Sach the next day. Cruz is at least getting some games going - it’s early days for him but the concern atm is that he is really struggling with the day to day matches.

Just hope they don’t push him too hard into the mens tour, physically he isn’t ready.

 

[tiger_one]

Lost to Tai Sach the next day. Cruz is at least getting some games going - it’s early days for him but the concern atm is that he is really struggling with the day to day matches.

Just hope they don’t push him too hard into the mens tour, physically he isn’t ready.

And the pressure of being his father's son .........

 

[tiger_one]

Chris O'Connell joins Jordan Thompson and Alex de Minaur in the Rolex Shanghai Masters second round.
His fifth ATP Masters 1000 win of 2025 sets a new career high for the most wins in a season at this level.