Futterman: The Australian Open women’s semifinal, Madison Keys over Iga Świątek in a deciding tiebreak. A match point saved. The outcome uncertain until the final ball. A player winning a monumental match on her way to fulfilling a life mission. All of it done and dusted in a two-hour-and-35-minute knot of tension.

The freedom to treat a mixed gender match as entertainment is not a step backward, but a hard-earned marker of progress for women.

Maybe it will be Coco Gauff, the last American woman to win a Grand Slam title. That was in June, when she won the French Open. But Gauff has been shaky all summer, so shaky that she’s hired a biomechanics specialist to fix her troublesome serve.

Women's tennis world rankings are calculated by the WTA, who award points based on a player's performance at particular tournaments. The further a player progresses in a sanctioned event, the more points they will be awarded. Grand slams provide the most points with 2000 awarded to the winner and 1200 to the runner-up.

The 24-year-old pointed out that finishing as number 2 is a great success, stressing that the competition on the tennis scene is stronger than ever.

For the third straight year, tennis superstar Coco Gauff was named the highest-paid female athlete, Forbes announced on Tuesday in their annual list for 2025.

See the 2025 Forbes list of the world's highest-paid female athletes, which counts both on- and off-field income—and features two women hauling in at least $30 million.

Dr. Megan Gornet is serving up change when it comes to protecting female tennis players. The St. Louis native, who now practices as a fertility and reproductive physician at WashU Medicine, has spent the last year combining her specialization with her ...