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Daria Kasatkina begins the BNB Ningbo Open against Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Monday, with a recent head-to-head loss adding substance to an otherwise routine-looking first-round assignment.
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Daria Kasatkina begins the BNB Ningbo Open against Aliaksandra Sasnovich on Monday, with a recent head-to-head loss adding substance to an otherwise routine-looking first-round assignment.
Daria Kasatkina has answered her latest three-set Beijing setback with back-to-back qualifying wins in Wuhan, securing a place in the WTA 1000 main draw and giving her Asian Swing campaign a sharper second act.
Daria Kasatkina ’s three-set China Open loss to Paula Badosa was another ranking setback, but the competitiveness of the performance offered a clearer platform for rebuilding a difficult 2026 campaign.
For Australian representative Daria Kasatkina , the China Open draw has delivered an immediate return to the opponent who exposed the margins of her late US Open exit. Paula Badosa is the headline, but the more import...
Daria Kasatkina ’s singles campaign ended against Paula Badosa, but her US Open week continues on Friday with Yuliia Starodubtseva — a quick shift from solving a baseline problem alone to building points in a new part...
Against fellow former top-10 player Paula Badosa, Daria Kasatkina begins her New York campaign with a test that reaches beyond the draw: can her all-court intelligence still turn a high-level hard-court match into a p...
Australia’s newest Grand Slam representative has direct entry into New York, but Kasatkina’s real US Open challenge is converting competitive losses into a sharper hard-court campaign.
The September 14 rankings show Australia’s women are no longer relying on one or two names to carry the singles pathway. Emerson Jones , still only 18, sits just outside the top 100 while a broader group closes in beh...
With the US Open main draw confirmed for five Australian women, New York offers a sharper test than simply counting entries: can Maya Joint consolidate, can Daria Kasatkina translate experience, and can three unseeded...
Bernard Tomic’s return to the ATP top 200 is real progress, but the broader Australian ranking picture remains defined by Alex de Minaur and a deepening group behind him. Nick Kyrgios, meanwhile, has slipped almost en...