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The two-time Rome champ is now a three-time Rome champ 🏆🏆🏆 Elina Svitolina defeats Coco Gauff 6-4, 6-7, 6-2 to earn her biggest title since 2018 🤩 #IBI26

Wow, Svitolina wins Rome after Kostyuk won Madrid. Ukraine is on a roll 🇺🇦

Alex should be very proud of herself for an amazing performance today. #IBI2026 #Tennis

I love Alex, but this is amazing playing from Elena Rybakina.

World No. 2 coming through in three 🔥 Rybakina notches her 27th win on the year. #MMOpen

@BlinkBets @Jimmylovesports Okay @BlinkBets 😂

Nah trust me, she's the goat. Who is the most inform player right now - Rybakina after winning the WTA Finals and Australian Open? In her first tournament back from a major injury that required surgery, Zheng took the first set off her and didn't lose a single point on her first serve (so much for Rybakina having the best serve). Zheng won 15 vs 5 receiving points in that set. When she was acc healthy? Look at their match at the WTA Finals. In the final set when Zheng locked in, she limited Rybakina to 31% first serve points won (again, so much for that best serve lol) and Zheng didn't even concede a single break point. In 2024, everyone was saying Swiatek is the best and obviously her best surface is clay. Zheng beat her in straight sets at Roland Garros that year. She was 21 when she won Gold btw, even now still not at her peak whereas Sabalenka is 27, Rybakina 26. People just too focused on results instead of looking at the actual game of players - strenghts, weaknesses, flaws etc. Zheng has the most complete game. And I showed one of the slips from when I backed her to win Gold so I'm not just overreacting to certain events, I've said this since before all of that etc.

Tennis 🇨🇳 Qinwen Zheng ML 🇧🇪 Elise Mertens ML 5 units at -123 I've said it so many times but Qinwen Zheng is the most talented player in the history of the WTA and she has the highest ceiling. I don't expect people to agree but that's because most people just see results and stats, and lack the ability to analyse a player. Even the experts aren't capable of this. I backed Qinwen to win Gold at the Olympics and during one of her matches, I remember one of the commentators saying 'she has potential to maybe win a slam in the future, but not on this surface' or something along those lines. Obviously the Olympics aren't a slam but this is the level of analysis that the 'experts' have. As yous know, Zheng went onto win Gold and she beat Iga Swiatek in straight sets along the way - this was when Swiatek was at her best and a monster on clay. Even these days, people don't talk about Zheng when talking about the best players on the WTA. No need to get into that right now but just understand that when Zheng is at her best, no one can beat her. Obviously, she is not at her best right now as she just returned from a big injury - so our job is to figure out how close to/far from her best she is and then assess the probability of her winning this match. Well, I have acc been very happy with what she has showed so far in her comeback from injury. Even in her first tournament back, she brought a pretty good level - or at least a level much higher than I was expecting at that stage. I also like that she has played another couple of tournaments since then and got a few matches under her belt. Now this will be her first clay match of the year but she has been in Madrid for a while now, training. What's also important to note is that her opponent, Kenin, is the same one she faced in her first match back. After dropping the first set, Zheng dominated the next two 6-1 6-2. She won 83% of first serve points and hit 20 aces. Now yes this is clay, but these are altitude conditions which means the ball flies quicker through the thinner air and so her serve will still be a weapon. Kenin is also a poor returner so I expect a lot of free points for Zheng. Kenin has also been in poor form all year and ok she has won a match here but that was against Ashlyn Krueger. Every version of Zheng is a million times better than Krueger. Folks, Kenin has nothing in her game to trouble Zheng, absolutely nothing. This is all about Zheng. The match with the most rust would have been her first one back and yet she still handled Kenin very convincingly in the end. Her level has got better and better since then, and although she withdrew from Stuttgart - I don't really have any big injury concerns. I acc like that she has had a nice training block going into this one. As for Mertens, the big edge here is the surface. We have already cashed a max bet against Eala this clay season. Eala's movement on clay is a big disadvantage - she just doesn't know how to slide properly. Mertens is nothing special but she is a solid player and has a lot of experience on this surface - that alone is enough to beat Eala on clay. This clay season, Eala needed Grabher to not take break points, then lost to Ostapenko in straight sets, a very out of form Leylah Fernandez in straight sets and then beat an injured Pavlyuchenkova. If you know how to hold a racquet, how to move on clay and are not injured - then you should be beating Eala on this surface. I think this is great value on both players.

And we're going to a deciding set... #MMOpen

Set Rybakina 6-4 vs Zheng. Mad as hell, especially for one mark who were out but said in. But keep focusing. #MMOPEN

@TheTennisLetter This umpire is arrogant. @WTA

Elena Rybakina in a disagreement with the umpire in her match against Qinwen Zheng in Madrid. Qinwen hit a serve that was called in by electronic line calling. Elena shows the umpire the mark, which is out. Elena: “Are you kidding me? This is not a joke. The system is wrong. This is not a joke. It is not touching. It is absolutely wrong.” Looks like electronic line calling got this one wrong…

Fighting back 👊 Elena Rybakina takes it the distance, sealing the second set against Ruse 6-3! #MMOPEN

@juanrg_1201 @BastienFachan And how quickly did you forget back-to-back beating from Rybakina to Sabalenka on WTA Finals and AO? That was just 2 and 4 months ago? Not to mention that Aryna only won by a dot at IW, whereas Elena won clearly in WTA Finals and AO. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@BastienFachan How quickly you forget what happened in IW and Miami just because Rybakina won a WTA 500

I have seen enough... Elena Rybakina, world No.1, July 13, 2026.

THE CHAMPION IN STUTTGART! 🏆 @lenarybakina defeats Muchova in straight sets for the trophy! #PorscheTennis

Elena Rybakina serves like Katniss Everdeen is striking.

Such a great display of work today at #StuttgartOpen by @lenarybakina 🎾👟

Elena Rybakina in the last 4 months: -WTA Finals champion -Australian Open champion -Indian Wells finalist -Miami Open SF -21-4 record this year -Career high world #2 We MOVE!

WOW

Rygodkina winning ridiculous points after committing psychological warfare against her fansbase with netted 1st serves:

imagine hitting 42 winners, 35 unforced errors, winning 70% of second serve points but STILL not getting the win. shows how incredible both these women played today

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Eala's weakness is her tendency to return the ball to her opponent's arms-length distance, all while her opponent makes her run from corner to corner, eventually tiring her and making poor return shots. #AlexEala #WTA #Tennis